Alaska’s Year without a Summer

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jan 20, 2019   Featured, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Two-hundred and thirty-six years ago, when Gen. George Washington marched back into New York City as British troops were walking out, a volcano erupted in Iceland. For eight months of 1783, Laki volcano spewed lava and belched noxious fumes into the atmosphere. One-quarter of the residents of Iceland died, and the sulfur-rich gases that spread […]