Exceptional drought events, known as megadroughts, have occurred on every continent
outside Antarctica over the past~ 2,000 years, causing major ecological and societal …

Because of concerns that ongoing climate change could lead to a possible collapse of
human civilization, the topic of societal (civilization) collapse has emerged as especially …

California's 5-year drought has ended, even as its aftermath lingers. From 2012–2016 much
or all of California was under severe drought conditions, with greatly diminished …

Monsoons are the dominant seasonal mode of climate variability in the tropics and are
critically important conveyors of atmospheric moisture and energy at a global scale …

Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

The influence of climate change on civil conflict and societal instability in the premodern
world is a subject of much debate, in part because of the limited temporal or disciplinary …

Conflict and warfare are central but also disputed themes in discussions about the European
Neolithic. Although a few recent population studies provide broad overviews, only a very …

This paper offers new high-resolution oxygen and carbon isotope data from Stalagmite S1
from Mavri Trypa Cave, SW Peloponnese. Our data provide the climate background to the …

The measure of the “Mayacene,” a microcosm of the Early Anthropocene that occurred from
c. 3000 to 1000 BP, comes from multiple Late Quaternary paleoenvironmental records. We …

The demise of Lowland Classic Maya civilization during the Terminal Classic Period (~ 800
to 1000 CE) is a well-cited example of how past climate may have affected ancient societies …