A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...
Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...
A new generation of climate detectives is rewriting one of history’s darkest chapters, arguing that the Black Death did not ...
New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...
New research suggests that a combination of volcanic activity, cold summers and famine brought the deadly plague to Europe.
A volcanic eruption around the year 1345 may have set off a chain reaction that unleashed Europe's deadliest pandemic, the ...
A volcanic eruption may have triggered “the largest known plague pandemic in human history,” according to a new study about ...
The deadliest volcanic disaster in Japan’s history did not end with fire or ash, but with water. When the slopes of a ...
New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried ...
Scientists have discovered that shear forces inside rising magma can create gas bubbles long before pressure drops occur. The intensity of a volcanic eruption is shaped by how many gas bubbles develop ...
A newly analyzed set of climate data points to a major volcanic eruption that may have played a key role in the Black Death’s ...
Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...