Scientists have identified the “mystery volcano” that erupted in 1831 and cooled Earth’s climate. They have linked it to an ...

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

Scientists Make Groundbreaking Discovery About a Volcanic Eruption That Almost Turned the Sun Blue Scientists solved the 200-year-old mystery of the location of a large volcanic eruption that exerted ...

The volcano is located on Simushir Island, in the Kurils chain of islands – a disputed territory between Russia and ... Islands off the coast of Russia and Japan. Scientists say that during ...

which is part of the disputed Kuril Islands between Russia and Japan. During the Cold War, the Soviet Union used a flooded volcanic crater on Simushir as a secret nuclear submarine base ...

The islands have been characterised by a territorial dispute between Russia and Japan, which dates back to the end of World War Two when Soviet troops seized them from the Japanese. The row has ...

A prominent US security analyst has called on president-elect Donald Trump to demonstrate the firm line he will take on China by resuming live-fire practice drills on disputed islands in the East ...

Russia and Japan have never signed an official peace treaty to end the second world war because of a dispute over the Kuril Islands. The Soviet army seized the Kurils at the end of the war in 1945 ...

According to the analysis, the mystery volcano was Zavaritskii (also spelled Zavaritsky) on Simushir Island, part of the Kuril Islands archipelago, an area disputed by Russia and Japan.

The Kuril Islands are a volcanic archipelago where earthquakes and tidal waves are common. The islands are currently disputed territory between Russia and Japan.