On April 12, 1816, it began snowing in Quebec City ... Eastern Canada was far from the only region affected by the year without a summer, however. Summer frosts also devastated much of the ...

Byron in Geneva focuses sharply on the poet s life in the summer of that year, a famous time for meteorologists (for whom 1816 is the year without a summer), but also that crucial moment in the ...

In New England, snow fell in July and August, and 1816 became known as the "year without a summer." The force of this eruption on the small, uninhabited island of Krakatau was so great that much ...

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was born in 1816 on the cold, wet shores of Lake Geneva, under thundery, leaden skies. It was the “year without a summer” when the eruption of a volcano in ...

In a remote Malaysian fishing village, two boyhood friends reunite and take a night fishing trip to an uninhabited island. Through their journey and a series of flashbacks, the mysteries of their ...

The results are in. This summer saw the lowest average number of butterflies per 15-minute count in the survey’s 14-year history: seven, down from 12 last year. A third of species had their ...

Have you been putting off defrosting your freezer for a year or more, whilst that bag of frozen peas steadily disappears behind an excessive build-up of ice? Now is your moment to shine and to ...

With or without school aged-children ... and events in ways you can't any other time of the year, from North Carolina's balmy Outer Banks to Maine's summer food festivals. Whether you're looking ...

The summer before senior year of high school ... families can focus on the milestones and memories that senior year brings without the stress of applications hanging over their heads." ...

Wall Street typically springs to life after Labor Day with bankers and investors back from their vacations. This year could be especially lively.