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

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.

Volcanic eruptions could have fueled the spread of the Black Death plague across medieval Europe, according to a new study that pieces together evidence from ice cores, rare blue tree rings from ...

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

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

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 ...

Understanding the complex network of preceding events and their consequences is the only way to get a clearer picture of the ...

The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, was a devastating pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353, ...

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 ...