Harvests, wildfires, epidemics: How the jet stream has shaped extreme weather in Europe for centuries; a study published in Nature
According to a new study, the plague may have been a contributing factor to the population collapse in the end of the Neolithic, known as the Neolithic decline, in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe
4,000-year-old plague DNA found: the oldest cases to date in Britain; the paper is published in Nature Communications
Plague trackers: Researchers cover thousands of years in a quest to understand the elusive origins of the Black Death
Historical research and mathematical modeling challenge the death rate and severity of the first plague pandemic, the Justinianic Plague
The Justinianic Plague began in 541 in the Eastern Roman Empire, ruled at the time by the Emperor Justinian I, and recurrent outbreaks ravaged Europe and the Mediterranean basin for approximately 200 years
