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Environment & Energy

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2. Just five years later, the eruption of Krakatoa would inject so much ash into the air it caused global cooling ....

Sat Jun 20, 2026, 04:48 PM

9 hrs ago

not as bad as the Tambora eruption of 1815 (which began the "Year Without a Summer&quot but still notably bad.

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