The death toll from the violent eruption of Guatemalas Fuego volcano on June 3 has risen to 121, after the identification of five cadavers recovered from the devastated zone, a forensics institute ...

The Black Death has long been framed as a purely biological catastrophe, a lethal bacterium riding into crowded ports and tearing through unprepared cities. New research now argues that the pandemic’s ...

"Black Death," which wiped out the majority of the European population in the 14th century, may have occurred due to a volcanic eruption, according to a study published in the journal Communications ...

The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of Europe’s population — might have been set in motion by a volcanic eruption, a new study ...

An 1877 engraving based on a painting showing the Black Death’s devastation of Florence, Italy, in 1348. The infamous Black Death—a pandemic that killed as many as one third to one half of Europeans ...