Environment ❯ Climate Change

Historical Climate Events

Volcanic Eruptions Late Antique Little Ice Age 8.2 ka Cooling Event Ecosystem Collapse Glacial Activity Homeric Grand Solar Minimum 8.2ka Event Impact on Ecosystems Mass Extinctions Little Ice Age El Niño-La Niña Cycle Comet Strikes

Volcanic Cooling in 1345 Linked to Trade Route That Likely Brought the Black Death to Europe

The study links a mid-14th-century climate shock to famine-driven grain trade as a plausible conduit for plague vectors.

PNAS Study Dates Monumental Siloam Dam to 805–795 BCE

Ancient Rainforest Collapse Locked Earth in a Five-Million-Year Hothouse