America’s deadliest volcano has just rattled through more than 1,000 tiny earthquakes in a matter of days, a drumbeat of tremors that has revived old fears about catastrophic mudflows racing down its ...

New research suggests climate shocks from major volcanic eruptions may have disrupted harvests and helped trigger the Black ...

In a new study about the potential origins of the Black Death, scientists suggested that one or more volcanic eruptions that occurred around 1345 may have allowed fleas infected with the bubonic ...

On a single day in November 2025, emergency managers across Washington state were inundated with calls about an eruption at ...

A volcanic eruption around 1345 may have set off a chain reaction that unleashed Europe's deadliest pandemic the Black Death, scientists say. Clues preserved in tree rings suggest the eruption ...

Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...

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 ...

Ving Rhames hosts 'History’s Deadliest,' a series on The HISTORY Channel exploring the world’s most lethal people, disasters, ...

Samuel Yap/ MANILA, Philippines – As it does every year, the Philippines was once again devastated by back-to-back, if not ...

The last two decades of the 20th century were packed with newsworthy events, and some of them coincided with the year of your ...

In 2014, a landslide east of Oso killed 43 people and destroyed 49 structures, including homes. The tragedy in Snohomish County ranks with the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens and the 1910 Wellington ...