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 

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.

"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

Dukono in Indonesia blown today, too - 3 hikers killed

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3p418x513o 

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 

"Scientists have discovered the remains of a massive volcano, thousands of times more powerful than Mount Etna, deep beneath England's east coast.

The supervolcano, centred under The Wash and extending into Norfolk and Lincolnshire, measured at least 65km (40 miles) across and erupted with the force of several thousand hydrogen bombs 454 million years ago.

Experts at the British Geological Survey (BGS) believe it explains a huge layer of volcanic ash spread across Norway, Sweden, the Baltic region, Belarus and Poland."

Ancient supervolcano found under English coast

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp84nrg8q94o 

As I recall my reading of geology, there were three false starts when the Atlantic Ocean started to open up, before finally achieving the separation of Europe and America. One created a trench in the North Sea, I'm guessing related to this supervolcano, one is associated with the former volcanos of the Cuillins in Skye, one now only seen as a remnant at Rockall.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgy5k4n07ko 

Ominously, the eruption is on the site of Krakatoa.

Keeping a close eye on this as I'm flying to Jakarta in a few weeks !

Good luck, mate, hope it works out fine

Oo-er; good luck!

Six volcanoes erupt within days in Indonesia in rare event

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-20/six-volcanoes-erupt-within-days-in-indonesia/107165188 

Also reports of volcanic ash settling in Jakarta