Since 2000, specialists at the National Museum of Natural History have produced the world’s foremost report on active ...

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

The left map shows the tephra fall associated with Kilauea’s episodic summit eruption, from December 2024 to December 2025. Tephra is a generic word for any material erupted by a volcano that travels ...

An international assessment report has been released to provide definitive statements on the atmospheric impacts from a huge ...

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

Oliverio Quira often checks on his cattle near the Purace volcano in southwestern Colombia. Despite a recent alert about a ...

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

Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi volcano eruption sends ash across Red Sea to India & worldwide. Map, flight disruptions, weather ...

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried imported grain to fill the gap came plague-carrying fleas.

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

An active underwater volcano 300 miles off the Oregon Coast that was predicted to erupt in 2025 is now expected to erupt ...

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