How volcanoes upend the story of what sparked the Black Death

Volcanic eruptions could have fueled the spread of the Black Death plague across medieval Europe, according to a new study ...

A volcanic eruption may have catalyzed the plague's arrival in Europe, study suggests

New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried imported grain to fill the gap came plague-carrying fleas.
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A volcanic eruption might have helped bring the Black Plague to Europe

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

Volcanic eruption led to the Black Death, new research suggests

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

Medieval volcanoes may have ignited the Black Death

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

Volcanoes may have helped spread the Black Death

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

From the Miller’s Tale to King Lear’s roaring sea, a history of flooding in literature

Chaucer and Shakespeare lived through periods of weird weather not unlike what we are seeing today. So what can we learn from ...
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New theory on Europe's plague blames a volcano

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