The eruption unleashed rivers of lava and devastating pyroclastic ... becoming a linguistic enigma. Mount Tambora remains active. Continuous monitoring of the volcano and the creation of disaster ...

In 1809, a massive volcanic eruption occurred, but its location remains unknown. Scientists found evidence of a hidden ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history. Now, scientists have revealed a minute-by-minute account of how the devastation unfolded.

Read about the volcano that some believe almost wiped humans off the planet Donald R. Prothero Our story begins on a very bad day about 74,000 years ago. The planet was starting to move out of one ...

Some 69 of these eruptions were larger than the Mount Tambora eruption of 1815 in Indonesia—the largest recorded eruption in human history. This data showed that some kind of eruption took place ...

Solar geoengineering, if weaponised, has the potential to deepen global inequality and escalate conflicts worldwide.

Mary Shelley, often overlooked in sci-fi history, was the first-ever science fiction writer. Inspired by cutting-edge debates on life and electricity, her novel asked questions we still grapple with ...

larger than another famous Indonesian volcanic eruption, Mount Tambora, which caused what is now referred to as "the year without a summer" in 1816. The Mount Toba eruption created an instant ice ...

A scientist has warned that Earth is not prepared for the next major volcanic eruption and that humanity has "no plan" to ...

Drawing parallels to the catastrophic eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815, experts caution that a future event could disrupt food supplies, cause global cooling, and unleash economic chaos in a world ...