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Roman Plagues Struck During Cool, Dry Periods

Marine sediments from the Gulf of Taranto offer a high-resolution look at climate during ancient disease outbreaks.

Did Climate Change Cause the Fall of the Roman Empire?

“The Roman Empire rises and falls and rises and falls,” says Harper. “There’s a series of episodes of very extreme crises in some cases. And I think the case is now overwhelmingly clear that both climate change and pandemic disease had a role in many of those episodes.”

Plagues that shook the Roman Empire linked to cold, dry periods

A study reconstructing the climate of Italy during the Roman Empire based on marine sediments shows that three pandemics coincided with cooler, drier conditions

Georgetown Graduate Named Rhodes Scholar

Georgetown Alumnus, DOJ War Crimes Researcher Wins 2024 Rhodes Scholarship

Thomas Batterman, a Georgetown alumnus who investigates war crimes at the Department of Justice, won the 2024 Rhodes Scholarship in the U.S.

Did the 'Black Death' Really Kill Half of Europe? New Research Says No.

Looking at ancient deposits of pollen as markers of agricultural activity, researchers found that the Black Death caused a patchwork of destruction in Europe.

Black Death mortality not as widespread as long thought -- Secret History -- Sott.net

Pollen data from 19 modern European countries reveals that parts of Europe experienced negligible or no impact at all. A new study uses pollen data to evaluate the mortality caused by the medieval plague at a regional scale across Europe. Results...

'Spillover' diseases are emerging faster than ever before—thanks to humans

History is pockmarked with the scars of past zoonotic outbreaks. What have we learned, why are they increasing, and what can we do to avoid them?