A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.

Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...

A new study offers a novel theory on how the plague came to establish a foothold in Europe in the 14th century and kill ...

If you look at Bert Kreischer—shirtless, squealing, usually holding a vodka soda that is mostly vodka—you probably don’t immediately think, "I bet that ...