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

Christmas trees are placed in prominent locations in homes, typically in front of a large picture window or in the corners of ...

Volcanic eruptions could have fueled the spread of the Black Death plague across medieval Europe, according to a new study ...

A volcanic eruption may have triggered a deadly chain of events that brought the Black Plague to Europe in the 14th century.

CLARKSTON, Mich. – A rare old-growth forest in suburban Detroit has been enrolled in a venerated network of special forests ...

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

Cornell researchers are trying to stop one of North America’s most destructive tree killers with a new wave of genetically resilient ash trees. According to a report by Krishna Ramanujan for the ...

Starting Saturday, more than 20,000 lights will roar back on the deodar cedars towering over a nearly mile-long stretch of ...

In ash trees, for example, we've begun to detect methylation changes linked to ash dieback pressure, offering clues as to how trees regulate their defenses over time as a disease progresses. Trees are ...

The tradition of the Christmas tree originated from the medieval "Paradise Tree" used to celebrate the Feast Day of Adam and Eve.

The first recorded date of Christmas in England was in the year 597 when Augustine baptised 10,000 Saxons in Kent on ...