Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in recorded history, sending an enormous plume of tiny sun-reflecting particles high into ...

This catastrophic event marked a turning point in the understanding of the geological and climatic impacts of volcanoes. The eruption unleashed rivers of lava and devastating pyroclastic flows that ...

Tambora's impact was global, as volcanic ash and aerosols rose high into the stratosphere, filtering out sunlight and heat. Abnormally cold weather the following year caused crop failures as far ...

it cooled the entire globe by an average of 2.1 ºF. Mount Tambora (1815) Death toll: 90,000 The volcano literally blew its top off. More from Science ...

In April 1815, the eruption of Tambora Volcano in Indonesia — one of the largest in recorded history — blasted ash and gases into the atmosphere purportedly causing widespread cooling and crop ...

Like volcanic islands such as the Galapagos ... Narrator: In 1815, Mount Tambora erupted in Indonesia, killing an estimated 92,000 people. It was the biggest eruption in recorded history.

a volcano in present day Alaska spewed so much sulphur into the air that Ancient Greek and Roman sources documented that harvests failed and famine and disease spread for years. Mount Tambora in ...

The Ring of Fire is also where an estimated 75% of the planet’s volcanoes are located, such as Mount Tambora of Indonesia, which erupted in 1815 and became the largest volcanic eruption in ...

Some 69 of these eruptions were larger than the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815 in Indonesia ... but like many devastating moments in Earth history, volcanoes may be be partly to blame.

Historically, large volcanic eruptions like Tambora in 1815 and Mt. Pinatubo in 1991 have led to significant cooling effects on the global climate by blocking sunlight with their aerosols.