The volcanic eruption started a chain of events that led to the Black Death plague spreading across Europe, researchers say.

If you have ever wondered why Iceland and Greenland got their names despite their opposing characteristics, here's a little history lesson for you explorers.

D heat maps show how deep temperature patterns under Greenland help explain uneven ice loss and land motion, improving future ...

The Black Death, also known as the Bubonic Plague, was a devastating pandemic that occurred in Europe from 1346 to 1353, ...

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern ...

A volcanic explosion, somewhere in the tropics, may have increased European trade with central Asia—which brought fleas ...

A large volcanic eruption or cluster of eruptions in the mid-1340s triggered severe climate anomalies that drove harvest ...

Kurdish militants who have been waging a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire. The move comes just two days ...

Scientists have detected hundreds of earthquakes originating from Antarctica's 'Doomsday Glacier', sparking fears of collapse ...

It is possible that Brendan the Navigator, a 6th-century Irish monk, discovered America well before Christopher Columbus or ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.