Not only do super-eruptions cause the volcano to collapse, resulting in the formation of the caldera, they eject huge amounts ...

Deep beneath the barren landscape of Antarctica lies secrets to the climatic history of the world. Frozen in the ice are chemical markers which, when studied by scientists, can help reveal a ...

You could see what the world was like when ice sheets a thousand feet thick blanketed Canada and northern Europe, or when the Indonesian volcano Toba blew its top in the largest volcanic eruption ...

Pioneering work by a group of French scientists in 2013 was able to make the identification by studying ice cores, volcanic ash, stratigraphic data, radiocarbon age of materials near the volcano ...