In 1815, Mount Tambora experienced the largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. The eruption's effects altered Earth’s climate for years and even led to the “year without summer” in 1816.

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Mount Tambora in Indonesia 1815 was the planet’s last massive eruption and it ushered in global disaster. Scientists warn the world may be due another and it is not prepared ...