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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

The piece’s message of ecological collapse, inspired by both the pandemic and Bryon’s response to the world’s largest-ever volcanic eruption, on Mount Tambora in 1815, has undeniably found ...

The poem, triggered by the famous sunless summer of 1816, when Europe was shrouded by ash from an eruption of the Indonesian volcano Mt. Tambora, offers a line that belongs in any zombie ...

Mount Tambora in Indonesia, Mount Etna in Italy, Krakatoa in Indonesia, Kilauea in Hawaii, Wizard Island in Oregon, and ...

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