Environment ❯ Climate Change

Historical Climate Events

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

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