Known as the "Year Without a Summer," 1816 negatively impacted the entire world, from the most poverty-stricken farmer in ...

From Karl von Drais's 1817 dandy horse to the Tour de France and India's Sunday cycling movement, the bicycle continues to ...

In 1816, people around the world woke to frosted crops and summer snowfalls that forecasters at the time could not ...

With Indonesia’s strategic position within what is known as the Pacific ring of fire, the country is home to 141 volcanoes ...

On this day back in 1816, parts of our region were buried under what witnesses called a “monstrous snowstorm” in the month of ...

Large volcanic eruptions may have played a bigger role in triggering historical famines across China than previously ...

Did you know that Georgia once had its very own Luxemburg? Before receiving its Soviet-era name in 1921, this prosperous ...

Arts Centre Melbourne, Rising festivalExploring medical science, nature and humanity, the Austrian artist’s show is chaotic and not always coherent – and a thrilling vision of what theatre can be ...

On paper, everything about Berlin Volksbühne-based performance-maker Florentina Holzinger’s latest button-pushing work, Rising Festival headliner A Year Without Summer, should appeal to the queerly ...

Programming the world’s most in-demand artist just weeks after she took the Venice Biennale by storm might be seen as a fluke. An act of God, perhaps. Florentina Holzinger’s SeaWorld Venice — wherein ...

Food prices have often played a major role in Taiwan’s history. The first major wave of migration from China occurred in 1628 ...

Amanwana with kids wasn't the plan. Moyo Island had other ideas — whale sharks, jungle treks and a waterfall at the heart of ...