A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

The 14th century in Europe was marked by a demographic upheaval of unprecedented scale with the Black Death. An ...

Scientists at USGS’s Yellowstone Volcanic Observatory are grappling with a mysterious case: the case of the missing sulfur ...

New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have begun one of history’s deadliest pandemics.

“This process can be likened to a bottle of sparkling water containing dissolved volatiles that exolve when the bottle is ...

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 ...

Tourists and residents in Iceland evacuated Tuesday as a volcano eruption impacted the Reykjanes Peninsula for the 11th time since 2021 after lying dormant for 800 years. The eruption, which began in ...

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A volcanic eruption in Iceland forced tourists to evacuate the Blue Lagoon geothermal spa on Wednesday as images captured lava flowing through a fissure in the Earth’s surface. The eruption began ...

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