Millennia of human history have seen many years of scarcity, famine, plague, and war. A new wave of research by historians ...

Determining which year in human history was the worst to be alive is subjective and there are many contenders for the top ...

Volcano eruptions are rare enough as it is, but sometimes, even the most dormant volcanoes can have a sudden impact on the ...

A sudden climate jolt disrupted harvests and trade, setting in motion the grain routes that helped carry plague into Europe.

Before Sunday, the volcano's last known eruption roughly coincided with the beginning of our current Holocene Epoch, when the ...

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

In regions like the Pacific, South America and Indonesia, an eruption from a volcano with no recorded history occurs every seven to ten years.

TOKYO (AP) — Mount Fuji hasn’t erupted since 1707. But for Volcanic Disaster Preparedness Day, Japanese officials have released computer- and AI-generated videos showing a simulation of a potential ...