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 Volcano, Sumbawa Island in Indonesia is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 20 crew member on the International Space Station. On April 10, 1815 the Tambora volcano ...

In 1816, people around the world woke to frosted crops and summer snowfalls that forecasters at the time could not ...

The fall could be five metres or 50 metres; there’s no way of seeing over the ledge below. Not that it matters – any debilitating injury could prove fatal, because being carried out of Mount Tambora’s ...

Two hundred years ago, on the evening of April 5, 1815, a volcano known as Mount Tambora on an island in Indonesia began erupting. The explosion was heard 1,600 miles away. Even 800 miles away on Java ...

200 years ago, Mount Tambora exploded and changed the world. The cloud of ash and sulfur dioxide caused the Year Without Summer in 1816, a year so cold that crops failed around the world, causing ...

Indonesian researchers believe they have identified six new animal species in the newly declared Mount Tambora National Park on the island of Sumbawa. “We are sure these six candidates have not been ...

Sunrise over Mount Tambora: The 1815 eruption of the volcano unleashed at least four times as much ash as Krakatau in 1883 I suppose you could call me a vulcanophile; there is something about ...