Hidden inside the narrow growth rings of Pyrenees trees lies the strongest evidence yet for what set the Black Death 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, ...

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

A 1345 volcanic eruption likely triggered a climate crisis, causing crop failures and forcing European port cities to open ...

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in ...

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

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

The Black Death has long been framed as a purely biological catastrophe, a lethal bacterium riding into crowded ports and tearing through unprepared cities. New research now argues that the pandemic’s ...

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.

Sharon Osbourne reveals Ozzy's heartbreaking final words to her before the Black Sabbath legend died following a heart attack ...

Dec. 15 (UPI) -- Celebrities took to social media Sunday night to express their horror and sadness at the stabbing deaths of ...