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 1345 may have set off a chain reaction that unleashed Europe's deadliest pandemic the Black Death, ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 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 volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.

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