Climate change intensified temperatures across Europe this summer, leading to an additional 16,500 deaths, according to leading climate scientists and epidemiologists. In a new study, experts looked ...

When the Black Death tore through Europe in 1347, it felt like the end of the world. Entire villages emptied. Bells rang without pause. In some places, more than half the people died within months.

In 1347, ships reached Sicily with the Black Death. In a year, it spread across Europe to England. In 1347, ships from the Black Sea arrived in Sicily carrying an unseen killer. Rats and fleas aboard ...

Italy has suffered the highest toll Majority of deaths have been at temperatures that do not count as heatwaves Previous estimates have been revised slightly upwards COPENHAGEN, Sept 22 (Reuters) - ...

The Black Death, a bubonic plague outbreak that killed up to 60 per cent of the population of medieval Europe, may have been set in motion by volcanic activity around 1345. The plague bacterium, ...

Previously unknown volcanic eruptions may have kicked off an unlikely series of events that brought the Black Death—the most devastating pandemic in human history—to the shores of medieval Europe, new ...

Atlas from the 14th century, attributed to Abraham Cresques. Via Wikimedia Commons. Presented in 1380 as a gift to King Charles V of France, the atlas offers a detailed depiction of the known world, ...