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Clues preserved in tree rings suggest the eruption triggered a climate shock and led to a string of events that brought the disease to medieval Europe.
Under this scenario, the ash and gases from a volcanic eruption caused extreme drops in temperature and led to poor harvests.
To avert famine, populous Italian city states were forced to import grain from areas around the Black Sea - bringing plague-carrying fleas that carried the disease to Europe as well."
Volcanic eruption may have triggered Europe's deadly Black Death plague
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5gr2x914ro
West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire
Everything taken together, here in Lincolnshire are more good things than man could have had the conscience to ask.
William Cobbett, in his Rural Rides - c.1830
https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/reviews/katla-envelops-icelandic-town-volcanic-ash-science-fiction-mystery
In an age of pandemic and global warming, real events cast a pall over Katla as surely as the volcano coats everything with ash and blots out the sun. Well worth watching IMO.
South Dorset
Elevation 60m 197ft
Whoahhhhhh, damn! Kilauea 👀👀She melted the other camera!! pic.twitter.com/6V60rfiBEf— Volcaholic 🌋 (@volcaholic1) December 6, 2025
Whoahhhhhh, damn! Kilauea 👀👀She melted the other camera!! pic.twitter.com/6V60rfiBEf
East Galway, Ireland.
"Huge plumes of ash and smoke were filmed erupting from Mount Etna, Sicily on 27 December as skiers used the slopes below."
Snow-capped Mount Etna erupts as skiers use its slopes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cz7n4px7e41o
Semeru Erupts Explosively — 3 Camera Angles Capture the March 29, 2026 Eruption
A few minutes ago: An explosive eruption has occurred at Sakurajima Volcano in Japan. It is sending ash and smoke up to 3,500 meters high and ejecting volcanic rocks up to 1,300 meters. Ash is currently drifting southeast, and officials are urging caution in nearby areas. pic.twitter.com/IS9DfChGEb— Weather Monitor (@WeatherMonitors) May 8, 2026
A few minutes ago: An explosive eruption has occurred at Sakurajima Volcano in Japan. It is sending ash and smoke up to 3,500 meters high and ejecting volcanic rocks up to 1,300 meters. Ash is currently drifting southeast, and officials are urging caution in nearby areas. pic.twitter.com/IS9DfChGEb
This looks like a big one.
Originally Posted by: Chunky Pea
Dukono in Indonesia blown today, too - 3 hikers killed
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3p418x513o
Martin
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"How can wealth persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? Here lies the whole art of Conservative politics."
Aneurin Bevan
Originally Posted by: Saint Snow
Short Clip 3 hours ago. BBC.
Three hikers - including two foreigners and a local resident - have died after Indonesia's Mount Dukono volcano erupted on Friday.
Mount Dukono is an active volcano on the island of Halmahera, situated to the east of Sulawesi. According to the Volcanological Survey of Indonesia, it erupted at 07:41 local time (22:41 GMT Thursday) sending ash plumes 10km into the sky.
Rescuers have found all the survivors from a group of 20 hikers who went missing after the eruption. Most have been evacuated from the mountain and are receiving treatment in hospital - though two porters remained behind to assist in locating the bodies.
Huge plumes of ash rise as Indonesia's Mount Dukono erupts
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c5y7gmmp8pdo