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Krakatoa
Volcano's Cold, Cold Shadow The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa in Indonesia ranks among the most powerful volcanic blasts in history. Krakatoa's reputation hardly needs burnishing, but Peter J. Gleckler of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and his colleagues have done so anyway. The findings, published in the journal Nature, show that Krakatoa immediately lowered ocean surface temperatures, as gases and dust from the eruption reduced the amount of sunlight hitting the earth.