What happens when a volcano explodes with the force of 200 megatons? The Krakatoa eruption of 1883 was so powerful that it wiped out entire communities, created massive tsunamis, and altered Earth’s ...

The HMS Challenger left Sheerness on the north Kent coast in 1872, embarking on an unprecedented mission to circumnavigate ...

It is one of the most active and powerful volcanic systems on Earth, responsible for some of the largest eruptions in history ...

One volcanologist who has spent time studying the volcano said the devastation its eruption would cause would be "complete and incomprehensible." ...

THE eruption of Krakatau, from May 20 to the end of August 1883, which killed the vegetation of the three islands of the Krakatau group and destroyed some two thirds of the island of Krakatau ...

Yet the eruption of Mount Toba released the ... resulting in abnormal cooling. When Krakatau erupted in 1883, the huge volume of ash that was shot into the stratosphere blocked sunlight, and ...

Museum officials said the bread is “believed to be up to 3,000 years old.” It’s unclear who collected the sample, when they ...

A volunteer sorting old microscope slides at a Leeds museum stumbled upon 3,000-year-old bread crumbs from Egypt. Photo from Leeds City Council While sorting through some overlooked archive ...