Modern research concludes that the Chicxulub meteorite, rather than volcanic eruptions in India, is primarily responsible for ...

Mount Tambora in Indonesia 1815 was the planet’s last massive eruption and it ushered in global disaster. Scientists warn the ...

Volcanic activity in India altered the climate but didn't kill the dinosaurs; the Chicxulub meteorite did, by triggering an ...

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the ...

Jupiter's volcanic moon Io doesn't appear to have a subsurface ocean of magma, resolving some issues about how Io's volcanoes erupt and raising broader questions about similar magma oceans within ...

With its famous hot springs and gushing geysers, Yellowstone is one the most iconic national parks in the country and ...

Volcanic eruptions release vast amounts of carbon ... this would leave the Yucatán meteorite impact as the primary cause of the later mass extinction. "By comparison, the impact from the asteroid ...

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A massive volcanic eruption can propel sulfur dioxide through the troposphere — the part of the atmosphere where weather happens — and into the stratosphere, the layer about 7 miles above the ...

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the dinosaurs. This phase of active volcanism took place in a period just ...

While volcanism caused a temporary cold period, the effects had already worn off thousands of years before the meteorite, the ultimate cause of the dinosaur extinction event, impacted.

Massive volcanic eruptions on the Indian peninsula have long been proposed as an alternative cause for the demise of the dinosaurs. This phase of active volcanism took place in a period just ...