The fascinating story of how a natural disaster on the other side of the world made the summer of 1816 Canada’s coldest on record. The post The Year Canada Didn’t Have a Summer appeared first on ...

First responders are on the scene of a house explosion in Cambria County Monday morning.Cambria County dispatch says it ...

The wild footage from Tacoma showed a crew of firefighters forcing open the door to the electrical room before thick smoke ...

Thomas Mulligan examines the catastrophic 1815 volcanic blast that triggered a worldwide cooling period and transformed the Earth's environment for years to follow. Kremlin rejects Europe’s Ukraine ...

The world now knows, courtesy of the NASA Artemis crew, that the moon is far more colorful than earthlings imagined, and in May it will turn completely blue, at least figuratively. The month will be ...

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The history of natural disasters is peppered with storms, floods, and even asteroids, but some of the most fascinating disasters have come from deep within the Earth itself thanks to volcanoes.

Volcanoes have always held an incredible power capable of shaping the course of human history. Around 1,600 B.C.E., an explosion on the Greek island of Santorini likely wiped out Europe’s first ...

Nearly 4000 years ago, and 1500 years before Pompeii was buried by volcanic ash, the Bronze Age city of Akrotiri was destroyed by one of the most powerful volcanic eruptions in history. The discovery ...

In Nicholas Day’s “A World Without Summer,” Mount Tambora provides a warning about climate change and the inspiration for “Frankenstein.” By Abby McGanney Nolan Abby McGanney Nolan writes about ...

More than 200 years ago, North Carolina residents experienced a “year without a summer.” Screengrab from the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources website A far-off volcanic explosion led ...

The Mount Tambora eruption in April 1815 was the most powerful volcanic blast in recorded human history. The stratovolcano on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa had been dormant for centuries — and then ...