Oliverio Quira often checks on his cattle near the Purace volcano in southwestern Colombia. Despite a recent alert about a ...

A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

Volcanic activity resumed at Hawaii as Kilauea volcano erupted on Saturday morning December 6,2025 sending red-hot lava ...

Kīlauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes, spewing out lava and ash intermittently for most of 2025. Now, a camera ...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered “the largest known plague pandemic in human history,” according to a new study about ...

New research suggests that a combination of volcanic activity, cold summers and famine brought the deadly plague to Europe.

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

“This process can be likened to a bottle of sparkling water containing dissolved volatiles that exolve when the bottle is ...

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

Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...

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

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