This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and events and how weather impacted them. On Wednesday, May 7, 1902, ...

Mount Pelee, one of the most lethal volcanoes in recorded history, is displaying fresh signs of activity decades after it last erupted. The volcano is on Martinique, a Caribbean island around 1,500 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sylvie Bigar tells food and travel stories. Until recently, most travelers to the French island of Martinique in the West Indies ...

While the town around him was engulfed by searing pyroclastic flows, one man achieved the impossible from a prison cell with a single ventilation shaft. Here’s how he did it. While humans have adapted ...

It was right around breakfast time when the cloud of burning ash ripped through the city of Saint-Pierre in May of 1902. A nearby volcano, Mt. Pelée, had erupted moments before, and the blast ...

Mount Pelée, the stratovolcano looming over northern Martinique, produced 494 volcanic earthquakes in a single week, according to monitoring data referenced in a peer-reviewed study published in ...

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On this day in weather history, Mount Pelée started to erupt. This Day In Weather History is a daily podcast by Chris Mei from The Weather Network, featuring stories about people, communities and ...