Krakatoa’s eruption in 1883 produced greener sunsets than this one Shutterstock / Belikova Oksana
Strange green sunsets reported after the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa were probably caused by the large amount and size of sulphur aerosols the volcano injected into the stratosphere.
鈥淗ow can physics or nature create green twilight colours?鈥 says at the University of Greifswald in Germany, who became intrigued after reading descriptions of such sunsets in the months after Krakatoa鈥檚 eruption in Indonesia.
Outside of London, for instance, meteorologist Rollo Russel…
