When we heard that there was a massive lake inside of a volcano caldera, we were more than a little intrigued. When we found out that there was an island on that lake, inside of the caldera, and that ...

The entire running trail is set on the volcanic island Samosir Island, in Lake Toba.

Supervolcanoes have the power to cough up enough ash to coat entire continents. They emit waves of hot gas, rocks and ash that flow down their slopes at speeds so great they strip away vegetation and ...

Environmental destruction has put people living around Indonesia’s largest lake at serious risk of natural disaster, Catholic and other Christian churches have warned. Deforestation around Lake Toba ...

A study led by University of Minnesota Duluth scientists "puts the nail in the coffin" on a theory that one of Earth's largest volcanic events decimated animal and plant life 75,000 years ago. Tom ...

Approximately 74,000 years ago, a colossal volcanic eruption occurred, leaving an indelible mark on the entire planet.

It is estimated that about 5-10 volcanoes worldwide are capable of producing a super-eruption that could catastrophically affect global climate. One of these volcanoes hides below the waters of Lake ...

SAMOSIR: A missing Indonesian man was found alive, naked and floating in a huge volcanic lake on Tuesday (Oct 13) two days after the helicopter in which he was travelling crashed. The man, named in ...

Toba volcano erupted 74,000 years ago, and is thought to have been the largest eruption in the last 2.5 million years. Some scientists have thought the fallout from the eruption caused a volcanic ...

The theory that humanity was nearly wiped out by a single catastrophic volcanic eruption appears to be wrong. We'll have to search elsewhere for an explanation for our unusual genetic bottleneck.

JAKARTA, Dec 3 (Reuters) - One person died and 11 were missing after flash floods hit near Lake Toba in Indonesia's North Sumatra province, the country's disasters agency BNPB said, with scores of ...