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 may have set off a chain reaction that led to Europe's deadliest pandemic.

The bacteria that causes the Black Death did not suddenly appear in the 14th century. It had been around for 5,000 years. So ...

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 ...

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

The study suggested that a volcanic eruption set off a chain of environmental changes that ultimately contributed to the Black Death’s spread.

The infamous Black Death—a pandemic that killed as many as one third to one half of Europeans within just a few years—may ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...

By Hugo Francisco de Souza New interdisciplinary evidence shows how a mid-14th-century volcanic cooling reshaped ...