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Tambora, the volcano that in 1815 darkened half the planet’s skies, causing the year without a summer in which Frankenstein was born

In these years, when climate change dominates much of the public conversation, it is worth looking back and remembering that the planet already experienced, just over two centuries ago, a sudden and devastating climatic upheaval, although of a very different origin than today. It happened in 1816, a year that the chroniclers of the time […]

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