The 1600 volcanic eruption of Huaynaputina in Peru had a global impact on human society, according to a study of contemporary records by geologists at the University of California, Davis.

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The 1600 volcanic eruption of Huaynaputina in Peru had a global impact on human society, according to a study of contemporary records by geologists at the University of California, Davis. The eruption is known to have put a large amount of sulfur into the atmosphere (which cools the planet by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth's surface). In Russia, notes professor of geology Ken Verosub, 1601-03 brought the worst famine in the country's history...

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