New research suggests a volcanic eruption around 1345 cooled the climate, leading to crop failures. On the ships that carried imported grain to fill the gap came plague-carrying fleas.

Climate data and historical accounts suggest that crop failures in the 1340s prompted Italian officials to import grain from eastern Europe, and this may have carried in the plague bacterium ...

The federal government is moving to deepen its partnership with the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Prime Minister Mark Carney recently announced that the UAE will invest $70 billion in Canada to bolster ...

KU freshman Mason Renner argues that people's separation from news and suffering is a reason why people falsely believe ...

My colleague Smmo Ozawa and I spent the past year recording oral histories about immigration in the rural United States. One of my favorite interviews ...

A new book argues that civilizations built on centralized wealth and power contain the seeds of their own destruction.

The biggest puzzle of all is what caused the apparently peaceful and well-organized Indus civilization to collapse over the ...

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence ...

The number of children dying before their fifth birthday is projected to rise for the first time this century, according to a ...

Foundations of daily life, including farms, reservoirs and aquifers that feed and sustain millions, are being pushed to the ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...

Democrats of North Dakota! Cheer up! We may feel like a lone voice on a vast plain, but beyond our borders the world hears us – because most nations see ...