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

Credit: NASA Expedition 20 crew / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In the remote archipelago of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia), Mount Tambora, an imposing stratovolcano that before 1815 reached ...

This catastrophic event unfolded in Galveston, Texas, leaving a trail of destruction and claiming over 8,000 lives. The ...

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 ...

Sixty-eight years earlier, when Mount Tambora (also in Indonesia) had erupted in 1815, it injected so much dust into the stratosphere that the earth’s weather patterns changed. As the ash ...

Some fear we’ll be buried in brimstone; others expect to be extinguished by A.I. But is there comfort to be found in our ...

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.

Mary Shelley, often overlooked in sci-fi history, was the first-ever science fiction writer. Inspired by cutting-edge debates ...

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

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 ...

The eruption was two orders of magnitude (100X) larger than another famous Indonesian volcanic eruption, Mount Tambora, which caused what is now referred to as "the year without a summer" in 1816.