Ancient supervolcano eruption had strangely gentle affect on local weather

The biggest volcanic eruption in human historical past ended in a couple of years of heat climate, in line with an research of historic sediments, and now not a serious volcanic wintry weather as some researchers had idea.

The Toba supervolcano, situated at the Indonesian island of Sumatra, erupted 74,000 years in the past, taking pictures 1000’s of cubic kilometres of volcanic subject material into the ambience.

“There is no doubt that the Toba super-eruption was colossal,” says Michael Petraglia…