Mount Merapi is due for a colossal eruption and experts warn the blast would cut off one of the world s most important shipping routes - the Strait of Malacca in the Pacific Ocean.
During the last 300,000 years, there have been numerous near-extinction events affecting the entire human population of the planet. But the genetic structure and capacity to develop higher [.]
Volcanic winter, cooling at Earth’s surface resulting from the deposition of massive amounts of volcanic ash and sulfur aerosols in the stratosphere. Sulfur aerosols reflect incoming solar radiation and absorb terrestrial radiation, cooling the troposphere below.