Before the Mount Tambora eruption in 1815, the locals began noticing volcanic activity five days leading up to the eruption.

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 ...

When night falls over northern Gaza, much of the cityscape of collapsed buildings and piled wreckage turns pitch black.

Palestinians who returned to their homes in northern Gaza after the ceasefire began on Jan. 19 are still struggling to find ...

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 ...

Hamas is set to hand over the bodies of four hostages in exchange for Israel’s release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, ...

Gaza is facing a dire post-ceasefire reality, with thousands of displaced residents returning to devastated homes. A massive ...

Nearly 600,000 Palestinians have flooded back into northern Gaza under the month-old cease-fire, according to the United ...

Living inside the ruins of their home, Rawia Tambora’s young sons get afraid of the dark, so she turns on a flashlight and her phone’s light to comfort them, for as long as the batteries last.