In 1815, Mount Tambora experienced the largest ... and gases into the air, including 60 megatons of sulfur. Large chunks of pumice stone apparently rained down around the volcano, and the dark column ...

In April 1815, the eruption of Tambora Volcano in Indonesia — one of the largest in recorded history — blasted ash and gases into the atmosphere purportedly causing widespread cooling and crop ...

The huge caldera—6 kilometers in diameter and 1,100 meters deep—formed when Tambora’s estimated 4,000-meter-high peak was removed, and the magma chamber below emptied during the 1815 eruption. Today ...

Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in recorded ... As the world warms, the speed at which air circulates in the atmosphere ...

In 1815, Mount Tambora's eruption caused a 'year without a summer.' Scientists warn of a high probability of another massive eruption this century, which could severely affect global food supplies ...

On December 24, 2024, Markus Stoffel, a climate professor at the University of Geneva, warned that a massive volcanic eruption may cool our planet. He compares it to the Mount Tambora eruption of ...