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

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

Located on the southern end of the Danish island of Bornholm, these stones are flat pieces of shale featuring intricately drawn Sun motifs. Scholars now speculate that these stones might have been ...

According to the team, there is a high chance that a connection exists between the volcanic eruption, the subsequent changes in climate, and the ritual sun stone sacrifices. In addition to a ...

It was larger than any volcanic eruption in the previous 28 million years and hundreds to thousands of times larger than later eruptions such as Tambora, Krakatau, and Mount Saint Helens.

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen—drawing on research of 60,000 years of volcanic activity ... Some 69 of these eruptions were larger than the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815 in ...

1831 was not the only time when a volcanic eruption had a global impact. In 1815, the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia led to a year without summer on the planet. The eruption released 24 ...