Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. The idea that a single volcanic eruption might have shaped ...

If you were lucky 74,000 years ago, you would have survived the Toba supereruption, one of the largest catastrophic events that Earth has seen in the past 2.5 million years. While the volcano is ...

Scientists are sounding the alarm about Lake Toba, the Indonesian supervolcano that makes the Yellowstone caldera look small by comparison. This geological study explores how Toba’s last eruption ...

Excessive land use and the felling of trees have seen a decline in the lake's water levels and disturb its equilibrium The photo shows areas near Lake Toba that have been cleared of trees after a wood ...