Photo credit: ITDP Program Management Support of Lombok. Photo: Ekho Budi Utomo/Shutterstock Imagine trekking through savannah fields and sandy terrain to the peak of the second-highest volcano in ...

About 74,000 years ago, Sumatra’s Mount Toba experienced a super-eruption, one of the largest in Earth’s history, potentially kicking off a massive disruption in the world’s climate.

The biggest volcanic eruption in the last 2 million years occurred some 74,000 years ago when Mount Toba, a supervolcano in Indonesia, blew its top, spewing massive volumes of rocks and ash across the ...