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

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

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

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

A new study reveals how fragments of continental roots are stripped and transported beneath the oceans, solving a ...

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 ...

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 ...

A remote camera captured the moment an erupting volcano in Hawaii knocked it out while recording. Sold for R14 million? The ...

The authors conclude that their findings offer a potential explanation for how the Black Death began and moved through Europe, linking climatic disruption, famine, and the movement of grain during a ...

Residents on Spain's La Palma island braced Wednesday for the possibility of bigger earthquakes that could compound the damage from a volcano spilling lava more than five weeks since it erupted. A ...

Scientists have observed cryovolcanoes erupting on comet 3I/ATLAS — giving us a new clue about what's inside it.

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