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

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

A volcanic eruption around 1345 may have set off a chain reaction that unleashed Europe's deadliest pandemic the Black Death, ...

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

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

Mount Rainier has rattled through thousands of tiny earthquakes this year, a reminder that America’s most lethal volcano is ...

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

Volcanic eruptions were the first in a “perfect storm” of events that led to the Black Death in Europe, according to a new ...

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

Mount Rainier’s seismic sensors showed unusual activity for several days, prompting widespread attention online, but experts told KIRO 7 News the readings came from a malfunctioning instrument rather ...

Maria Gladys Primo cannot hold back tears as she recalls the night of November 13, 1985, when she last saw her two young ...