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

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

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

A large volcanic eruption or cluster of eruptions in the mid-1340s triggered severe climate anomalies that drove harvest ...

The San Diego city attorney’s office has agreed to pay $30 million to the family of a 16-year-old youth who was fatally shot ...

The Black Death has long been framed as a purely biological catastrophe, a lethal bacterium riding into crowded ports and ...