The A.D. 536 eruption of an Arctic volcano was so massive that civilizations fell and undying myths took shape. But that's not the whole story. In A.D. 536, something profound happened to the planet.
Read about the volcano that some believe almost wiped humans off the planet Donald R. Prothero Our story begins on a very bad day about 74,000 years ago. The planet was starting to move out of one of ...