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, 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 ...

Scientists warn there’s a 1-in-6 chance this century of a volcanic eruption so massive it could make 1815’s Mount Tambora look like a sparkler. Cooling the world may seem ideal because ...

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

One of the last things you'd think could be lost is a volcano. Yet ... at the signal of climate-altering eruptions since 1800 captured by ice core records on both poles, many famous eruptions show up: ...

According to the team, there is a high chance that a connection exists between the volcanic eruption, the subsequent changes ...

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 ...

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

Scientists have identified the “mystery volcano” that erupted in 1831 and cooled Earth’s climate. They have linked it to an island volcano in the northwest Pacific Ocean.

Nearly two centuries after a massive volcanic eruption cooled Earth’s ... powerful of the 19th century, alongside Mount Tambora in Indonesia (1815) and Cosegüina in Nicaragua (1835).