Climate shocks from volcanic eruptions may have played a key role in triggering the Black Death plague by disrupting harvests ...
A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...
A volcanologist answers your questions about glass-shard hairballs, cooking breakfast over lava, Gollum's end on Mount Doom, ...
New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried imported grain to fill the gap came plague-carrying fleas.
A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...
The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of Europe’s population ...
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 ...
POZZUOLI, Italy — In Greek and Roman mythology, the Campi Flegrei volcano is depicted as the opening to the underworld. Its prehistoric eruptions blocked out the sun, turning summer into winter and ...
Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...
Some of the victims at Pompeii were wearing woolen cloaks when they died, even though it was August, new research finds.
A large volcanic eruption or cluster of eruptions in the mid-1340s triggered severe climate anomalies that drove harvest ...