Their findings pinpoint the culprit: Zavaritskii, a remote volcano on Simushir Island, part of the Kuril Islands chain between Japan and Russia. Previously, the likely culprit was wrongly ...

The world-changing event has at last been linked with the Zavaritskii volcano on Simushir of the Kuril Islands, an uninhibited strip of land barely 59 kilometers (37 miles) in length located ...

William Hutchison’s team identified the Zavaritskii volcano on Simushir Island as the culprit by matching volcanic ash from Greenland ice cores to samples from the caldera. Milk genes Neanderthals?