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 ...

When Tambora blew its top, 200 years ago this week, it left a smoking caldera behind that measures 6 kilometers across. (Jialiang Gao/Wikimedia) Tambora was once a tall and graceful mountain, as high ...

Now, that is an eruption that none of us have even come close to experiencing in our lifetime (so far). Tambora - the volcano - was though to be inactive at the time of the eruption. In fact, prior to ...

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On its 200th anniversary, the story of far and away the worst volcanic eruption in the record of human history. The Mount Tambora event, in Indonesia, killed tens of thousands in the immediate ...

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 ...