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

Record Numbers Define the Current Volcanic Crisis The Ring of Fire has witnessed over 50 volcanic eruptions between mid-2023 ...

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

The new research about the Black Death was published earlier this month ...

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

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 ...

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

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

A volcanic eruption may have set off a chain reaction that led to Europe's deadliest pandemic.

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

A surprising study has uncovered a link between a massive volcanic eruption in 1345 and the onset of the Black Death, Europe's deadliest pandemic. The discovery reveals how a catastrophic chain of ...

The Chauvet-Pont D'Arc cave is one of the most famous underground caverns in the world, housing one of the oldest and best-preserved collections of prehistoric cave paintings ever discovered. Now, ...