The Black Death ravaged Europe, and scientists and historians are still working to understand how it became so deadly ...

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

Hidden inside the narrow growth rings of Pyrenees trees lies the strongest evidence yet for what set the Black Death in ...

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

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A volcanic eruption in 1345 may have led to a famine, increased grain imports, and the spread of the Black Death.

Recent major volcanic eruptions in Indonesia and Ethiopia have sparked questions about increasing activity. However, experts state there's no evidence ...

Mount Nyiragongo erupted on Saturday, May 22, Forcing residents around the area to move to safer grounds in the West of the town and Rwanda. [Courtesy] Mount Nyiragongo volcanic eruption is one of the ...

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