drought

Communities living in Colombia thousands of years ago achieved an engineering wonder of the world based on cooperation among family groups without top...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’, a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led...

Hunnic peoples migrated westward across Eurasia, switched between farming and herding, and became violent raiders in response to severe drought in the...

The severity of drought conditions during the demise of the Maya civilisation about 1,000 years ago has been quantified, representing another piece of...

Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discusses ways of dealing with the crisis affecting...

Libby Blanchard and Bhaskar Vira from Cambridge's Department of Geography argue that we need to consider alternative approaches in order to protect...