Climate shocks from volcanic eruptions may have played a key role in triggering the Black Death plague by disrupting harvests ...

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

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.

Groups of tourists had to seek safety on Monday, when Italy’s Mount Etna, Europe’s tallest active volcano erupted. The volcano is located on the Italian island of Sicily and is a popular tourist ...

The Black Death ravaged Europe, and scientists and historians are still working to understand how it became so deadly ...

Sicily's Mount Etna erupted last week with a dense column of ash and smoke thrown thousands of feet in the air as satellites looked on from above. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission captured the ...

Tourists in Italy had to flee after Mount Etna erupted. The volcano sent groups sprinting to get away from the frightening scene. The eruption produced explosions heard as far away as 30 miles.

ROME -- A giant explosion from an Italian volcano sent locals and tourists running for cover on Wednesday. Stromboli, a volcano located on a small island off the coast of Sicily, erupted, sending a ...

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

A massive eruption at Mount Etna forced tourists to flee the volcano on Monday after a plume of high temperature gases, ash and rock “several kilometers high” billowed into the air above them, Italian ...

POZZUOLI, Italy — In Greek and Roman mythology, the Campi Flegrei volcano is depicted as the opening to the underworld. Its prehistoric eruptions blocked out the sun, turning summer into winter and ...