Two hundred years ago, half of the world went dark. The Tambora volcano in what is now Indonesia blew its top in April 1815, killing more than 60,000 people and turning the summer into winter across ...

Gillen D'arcy Wood speaks to students at the Kennedy Center. Wood disccused Tambora's effects on art, literature, and society. (Maddi Driggs) Gillen D’arcy Wood, professor of English and director of ...

Bold farmers in Indonesia routinely ignore orders to evacuate the slopes of live volcanoes, but those living on Tambora took no chances when history's deadliest mountain rumbled ominously this month.

Snow in June, freezing temperatures in July, a killer frost in August: "The most gloomy and extraordinary weather ever seen," according to one Vermont farmer. Two centuries ago, 1816 became the year ...

Imagine a volcanic eruption so large it spewed 24 cubic miles of ash, rock, and gases into the air, produced smoke that could be seen from 300 miles away, and completely altered the planet's climate ...

Tambora's 1815 eruption created a massive summit caldera. * Image: NASA * View Slideshow 1815: Tambora volcano in the East Indies erupts with a mighty roar. It sends enough pulverized rock into the ...

Magma isn’t the only thing that came out Tambora during the 1815 eruption. When magma rises it releases gases that are dissolved in it. In a cataclysmic eruption like Tambora, that volcanic aerosols ...

(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 ...

The eruption of Mount Tambora killed thousands, plunged much of the world into a frightful chill and offers lessons for today. Greg Harlin/Wood Ronsaville Harlin A year after the eruption, the effects ...

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