Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun rises on Mount Rainier in Washington state. (Rebecca L. Latson/Getty Images) The deaths of two experienced climbers on ...

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, ...

SAN MIGUEL LOS LOTES, Guatemala — Emergency crews pulled more bodies from what remained of villages devastated by the eruption of Guatemala's Volcano of Fire on Wednesday, but time was quickly running ...

Volcanic eruptions may have set off a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe, according to new research. Clues contained in tree rings have identified 14th Century volcanic activity as ...