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

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 ...

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

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

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

Clues contained in tree rings have identified volcanic activity as the "first domino to fall" in a sequence that led to the ...

A major volcanic cataclysm may have been ultimately responsible for the spread of the Black Death across Europe in the 1340s.

A vast, geometric feature buried beneath the Pacific Ocean is forcing scientists to rethink what they know about Earth’s deep past. Early mapping suggests a colossal, plateau-like structure near ...

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

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