Mount Asamayama’s volcanic eruption in the early 12th century may have contributed to extreme weather that triggered severe famine in Europe, a new study suggests. A Swiss research team came to ...

The blight began to infect the crop across much of western and northern Europe in the summer of 1845. In the Netherlands, about sixty thousand people died in the consequent famine—a terrible ...

Researchers are using written documents from over 500 years ago to better understand an intense period of extreme heat and drought, famine and disease that plagued Transylvania during Europe’s ...

Some were driven by famine and disease ... As the century progressed alliances with merchants and missionaries from Europe began increasingly to have a bearing on how African leaders achieved ...