Indonesia was struck by massive earthquake and volcanic eruption this past week. The citizens took it in stride. They're used to such events. But there are a few facts about volcanoes that even ...

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 1815, Mount Tambora in Indonesia unleashed the most powerful volcanic eruption in recorded history. The sheer force of the blast sent a colossal plume of particles high into the atmosphere, which ...

A new study has estimated for the first time how the eruption of Mount Tambora changed the probability of the cold and wet European 'year without a summer' of 1816. It found that the observed cold ...

(CNN) — 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 ...

(WHTM) — It was called the Year Without a Summer. In 1816, the average global temperature dropped about one degree Fahrenheit. In the United States, there was snow in June across New England and New ...