The Toba catastrophe, when Homo Sapiens was in real danger of extinction
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· 29 Apr 2024
The news of the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, located in Iceland, whose immense ash cloud completely blocked the airspace over the Old Continent, is from 2010. Newscasts around the world interviewed impatient travelers at European airports or others who were forced to use the train to get around. Not all those travelers, distracted and agitated, stopped to think about the immense risks of a huge-scale volcanic eruption, which could alter the Earth's climate for many years and even put the very existence of our species at risk. The most destructive eruption in history was that of Tambora, located on the island of Sumbawa, I...