Volcanoes may have played a pivotal role in the Black Death, the bubonic plague pandemic that ravaged 14th-century Europe.

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

The plague — aka the Black Death, aka the Great Pestilence — is rarely contracted today, yet it recently infected a South Lake Tahoe, California, resident. But before you put on your 17th-century “air ...