Supreme Court will hear appeal of Black death row inmate over racial bias in Mississippi jury makeup

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the appeal of a Black death row inmate from Mississippi whose case was handled by a ...

The Black Death: What was it, how did it start and what is its legacy?

Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe in ...

Volcanic eruption led to the Black Death, new research suggests

New data suggests an eruption cooled Europe, disrupted harvests and pushed Italian states into grain trades that may have ...

Scientists think a volcanic eruption may have kicked off the 'Black Death'

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

Science reveals new trigger point for the Black Death

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

A Volcanic Eruption in 1345 May Have Triggered a Chain of Events That Brought the Black Death to Europe

Ash from the explosion may have led to crop failure and famine in southern Europe, leading some Italian cities to import ...
Scientific American

How an Overlooked Eruption May Have Sparked the Black Death

The Black Death ravaged Europe, and scientists and historians are still working to understand how it became so deadly ...
Science Daily

Scientists uncover a volcanic trigger behind the Black Death

A newly analyzed set of climate data points to a major volcanic eruption that may have played a key role in the Black Death’s ...

Medieval volcanoes may have ignited the Black Death

Understanding the complex network of preceding events and their consequences is the only way to get a clearer picture of the ...
Dexerto

Scientists believe volcanic eruption may have helped trigger the Black Death

The study suggested that a volcanic eruption set off a chain of environmental changes that ultimately contributed to the Black Death’s spread.

The Black Death May Be Linked to a Mysterious Volcanic Eruption

The infamous Black Death—a pandemic that killed as many as one third to one half of Europeans within just a few years—may ...
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A massive mid-14th-century volcanic eruption likely triggered the spread of the "Black Death"

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