In the Middle Ages, the Black Death burst onto the scene, with the first historically documented outbreak occurring in 1346 ...

Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death -- the ...

New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...

Volcanic eruptions could have fueled the spread of the Black Death plague across medieval Europe, according to a new study ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...

Understanding the complex network of preceding events and their consequences is the only way to get a clearer picture of the ...

A volcanic eruption around the year 1345 may have set off a chain reaction that unleashed Europe's deadliest pandemic, the ...

Before Sunday, the volcano's last known eruption roughly coincided with the beginning of our current Holocene Epoch, when the ...

Scientists have observed cryovolcanoes erupting on comet 3I/ATLAS — giving us a new clue about what's inside it.

Volcanic eruptions were the first in a “perfect storm” of events that led to the Black Death in Europe, according to a new ...