This catastrophic event unfolded in Galveston, Texas, leaving a trail of destruction and claiming over 8,000 lives. The ...

Solar geoengineering, if weaponised, has the potential to deepen global inequality and escalate conflicts worldwide.

Mary Shelley, often overlooked in sci-fi history, was the first-ever science fiction writer. Inspired by cutting-edge debates ...

Credit: NASA Expedition 20 crew / Public domain / Wikimedia Commons In the remote archipelago of the Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia), Mount Tambora, an imposing stratovolcano that before 1815 reached ...

For centuries, the monumental complex of Qaṣr-e Šīrīn, located in the province of Kermanshah, Iran, has been the subject of study by historians and archaeologists. However, one of its most fascinating ...

The piece’s message of ecological collapse, inspired by both the pandemic and Bryon’s response to the world’s largest-ever volcanic eruption, on Mount Tambora in 1815, has undeniably found ...

Want to make the most of your telescope? You need a mount to match. We have rounded up the best telescope mounts in time for February's Venus and moon convergence. The right telescope mount can ...

That was the year after the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which became known as “the year without a summer” because of how it dimmed the sun. “It was the coldest summer ever recorded in ...

Sixty-eight years earlier, when Mount Tambora (also in Indonesia) had erupted in 1815, it injected so much dust into the stratosphere that the earth’s weather patterns changed. As the ash ...

Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade ...

The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 was one of the most deadly volcanic events in history. Now, scientists have revealed a minute-by-minute account of how the devastation unfolded.

Executive Editor David Carnoy has been a leading member of CNET's Reviews team since 2000. He covers the gamut of gadgets and is a notable reviewer of mobile accessories and portable audio ...