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 ...

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

Thirty-eight years ago, Mount St. Helens erupted in Washington, spewing ash, rock, and hot gasses into the air and causing mud to flow down the mountainsides. The eruption took place on May 18, 1980, ...

The deadliest volcanic disaster in Japan’s history did not end with fire or ash, but with water. When the slopes of a restless mountain collapsed into the sea in 1792, the impact hurled a towering ...

When Mount St. Helens erupted on May 18, 1980, the landscape changed in an instant—the geologic version of an instant, anyway. It was the deadliest eruption the United States had ever seen, leveling ...

The HISTORY Channel is set to premiere its killer new series History’s Deadliest with Ving Rhames on Monday, January 26 at 10 pm ET/PT.

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

Scientists suggest in a new study that the Black Death may have been triggered by one or more volcanic eruptions The disease may have been carried by fleas infected with the bubonic plague that ...