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

Volcano eruptions are rare enough as it is, but sometimes, even the most dormant volcanoes can have a sudden impact on the ...

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

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

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 ...

Before Sunday, the volcano's last known eruption roughly coincided with the beginning of our current Holocene Epoch, when the ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

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

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

When and where the earliest modern human populations migrated and settled in East Asia is relatively well known. However, how these populations moved between islands on treacherous stretches of sea is ...

Clues from a digital reconstruction of a lavish ancient home are changing how researchers understand Pompeii’s elite.