Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in ...
A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...
The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, was a devastating pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353, ...
Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...
New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...
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 ...
The Black Death ravaged Europe, and scientists and historians are still working to understand how it became so deadly ...
Understanding the complex network of preceding events and their consequences is the only way to get a clearer picture of the ...
The infamous Black Death—a pandemic that killed as many as one third to one half of Europeans within just a few years—may ...
The study suggested that a volcanic eruption set off a chain of environmental changes that ultimately contributed to the Black Death’s spread.
A large volcanic eruption or cluster of eruptions in the mid-1340s triggered severe climate anomalies that drove harvest ...
Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.