Hacker News with Generative AI: Volcanic Eruptions

Man's brain turned to glass by hot Vesuvius ash cloud (bbc.com)
Nearly 2,000 years after a young man died in the Vesuvius volcanic eruption, scientists have discovered that his brain was preserved when it turned to glass in an extremely hot cloud of ash.
Volcanic Winter of 536 (wikipedia.org)
The volcanic winter of 536 was the most severe and protracted episode of climatic cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2,000 years.
Microbial community structure in recovering forests of Mount St. Helens (frontiersin.org)
The 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens had devastating effects above and belowground in forested montane ecosystems, including the burial and destruction of soil microbes.
Trilobites killed by volcanic ash (bristol.ac.uk)