The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing body of climate research now points to a simpler, starker driver: water, and ...

A Rochester Institute of Technology researcher developed a mathematical method that shows climate change likely caused the rise and fall of an ancient civilization. In an article recently featured in ...

Key factors in the collapse of the Mayan civilization may have been located deep within a Mexican cave, as University of Cambridge-led researchers analyzed the chemical makeup of stalagmites that help ...