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

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 ...

Ancient coffin wood turn out to be climate archives, revealing a long-forgotten wet period that helped power the rise of ...

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

Ancient coffin wood turn out to be climate archives, revealing a long-forgotten wet period that helped power the rise of ...

The study’s authors believe that these grain ships arrived with stowaways: plague-infected fleas. Once in Europe, the fleas ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified volcanic activity as the "first domino to fall" in a sequence that led to the ...

Researchers link a burst of volcanic activity in the mid-14th century directly to the eventual arrival of Yersinia pestis.

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

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

How volcanic eruptions brought the Black Death to Europe - Clues contained in tree rings have revealed how the Black Death ...