Earth & weather

Watch nowMidnight at Noon19 May 1780 · New EnglandPremieres 11 NovThe Summer Nights You Could Read By30 Jun – 3 Jul 1908 · Europe, after TunguskaPremieres 24 NovThe Fog That Starved Egypt1783 · Laki fissure, IcelandPremieres 21 NovThe Volcano That Invented the Bicycle1815–1817 · Tambora to MannheimPremieres 14 NovThe Lake That Fell Into a Hole20 Nov 1980 · Lake Peigneur, LouisianaPremieres 15 NovThe Oil Prospectors Who Found the Dinosaur Killer1978–1991 · Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico

Coming up

• 16,000 Volunteers Read the Royal Navy's War Logs 12 October 2010 · Old Weather (Zooniverse), WWI logbooks 1913-1923
• A Chamois Hunter Knew About the Ice Age First 1815 · Val de Bagnes, Switzerland → Neuchâtel, July 1837
• A Dinosaur Tail Sold as Amber Jewellery 2015 / Dec 2016 · Myitkyina amber market, Kachin, Myanmar
• A Jurassic Squid Shell Recorded Four Winters April 1951 · University of Chicago
• A Nobel Physicist Predicted the Zuiderzee's Tides 1918–1926 · Leiden and the Zuiderzee
• A Tiny Arctic Flower Exposed a Sudden Freeze ~12,900-11,700 years ago · discovered in Danish and Swedish clay pits, c. 1900
• Africa Ripped Open in Three Weeks 2005 · Dabbahu, Afar, Ethiopia
• America's First Airmail Landed 30 Miles From Home 17 Aug 1859 · Lafayette, Indiana
• Arrhenius Did 10,000 Sums to Explain the Ice Ages 1894-1896 · Stockholm
• Aurora Hunters Found a Light Called Steve 2016–2018 · Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada
• Burgundy's Wage Books Recorded 664 Harvests 1354 → 2018 · Beaune, Burgundy
• Corals Glow With the Floods of Centuries Past 1985 · Great Barrier Reef, Australia