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 the ...

Mount Tambora, an imposing stratovolcano that before 1815 reached an altitude of more than 4,300 meters, was the scene of the ...

Significance of the 1815 Mount Tambora Eruption Mount Tambora is a stratovolcano on the Sumbawa island in Indonesia. The volcano resides along the Sunda Arc — a chain of volcanic islands. Though it ...

An eruption that produced one of the largest impacts on climate over the past 250 years has finally been matched with a ...

According to scientists interviewed by CNN, humanity may be on the brink of a climatic chaos due to a potential super ...

People lived in many parts of the Old World by then but had not yet reached Australia or the Americas. The bulk of the human ...

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately ...

Two of the four eruptions were previously identified: Mount Tambora in Indonesia exploded in 1815, and Cosegüina erupted in Nicaragua in 1835. The volcano that produced the 1808/1809 eruption ...

The aviation color code over the area has been changed from green to yellow as a precaution, the Icelandic meteorological ...