The year with the most tornadoes in the United States
The year with the most tornadoes in the United States is a subject of great interest and significance. Tornad…
The year with the most tornadoes in the United States is a subject of great interest and significance. Tornad…
It happened more than two centuries ago, but its impact remains enormous. Historians have credited the infamo…
History has seen some monstrous eruptions of volcanoes, from Mount Pinatubo's weather-cooling burp to the…
The year 1816 was known as ‘The Year Without a Summer’ in New England because six inches of snow fell in June…
The most deadly storms in recorded history have been identified by the World Meteorological Organis…
At the end of the 19th century, America was beaming with confidence and feeling bigger and stronger t…
In July 1958, an 8.3-magnitude earthquake at the Fairweather Fault rocked Alaska's southern coast. The …
For six months in the summer and fall of 1969, Niagara’s American Falls were“de-watered”, as the Army Corps o…
The infamous “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s, which much of the central part of the nation simply turned to dus…
The event is named after the Tunguska region, which was sparsely populated at the time. Eyewitnesses reported…
The deadliest natural disaster in American history remains the 1900 hurricane in the island city of Galveston…
In June 1991 the Philippine volcano, Mount Pinatubo, exploded producing one of the greatest volcanic eruption…
The Great Frost, as it was known in England, or Le Grand Hiver ("The Great Winter"), as it was kn…
It is easy to forget just how variable the climate of the earth has been, across the geologic time scale. Tha…
The idea of the earth tearing itself apart is terrifying enough, but the devastation that earthquakes cau…