Abstract Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome, written for a popular audience, uses the
environment to explain the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. The book asserts that …

Sediment deposition in floodplains is an essential part of the sediment dynamics of a
catchment. These sediment dynamics can vary largely on a Holocene time scale under the …

The first 1,000 year long Carpathian tree-ring width chronology was established based on
living and subfossil stone pine (Pinus cembra L.) samples from an upper timberline forest …

Updated European averaged autumn and winter surface air temperature (SAT) timeseries
indicate that the autumn 2006 and winter 2007 were extremely likely (> 95%) the warmest …

Changes in climate affected human societies throughout the last millennium. While
European cold periods in the 17th and 18th century have been assessed in detail, earlier …

The magnitudes of the largest known floods of the River Rhine in Basel since 1268 were
assessed using a hydraulic model drawing on a set of pre-instrumental evidence and daily …

The aim of this paper is not to present an exhaustive synthesis of the literature addressing
global warming and the urban heat island; rather, it is to shed light on some common …

The paper is oriented on social vulnerability to climate in Switzerland and in the Czech
Lands during the early 1770s. Documentary sources of climate related to man-made …

THE MID-SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SAW MORE CASES of simultaneous state breakdown
around the globe than any previous or subsequent age: something historians have called …

Using monthly independently reconstructed gridded European fields for the 500 hPa
geopotential height, temperature, and precipitation covering the last 235 years we …