From the rice paddies of South Asia to the wheat fields of northern China, summer monsoon rains sustain the livelihoods of ...
The 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia left a huge crater, along with a sometimes unexpected legacy. Jialiang Gao, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons On April 10, 1815, the Tambora volcano ...
When Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, an underwater volcano near Tonga in the South Pacific Ocean, erupted in 2022, scientists expected that it would spew enough water vapor into the stratosphere to push ...
An unknown volcanic eruption in the mid-14th century may have set the stage for the spread of the Black Death in Europe, according to a new study. By triggering a cool and overcast period in the ...