March 4, 2021, 4:07 pm
The eruption killed thousands of people across Europe as a sulphurous haze spread across the continent (James Hickey/University of Exeter/PA)
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An 18th-century volcanic eruption spread a sulphurous haze across Scotland and turned crops black and leaves yellow, research suggests.
A team at the University of Dundee looked at the impact of a series of volcanic eruptions that started at the Laki fissure in Iceland on June 8 1783.