Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political decline which, according to the scientific literature, coincided with ...

What if you could time-travel a hundred years from now. How would the planet look like? Would human beings still be in the ...

The pyramid-building Maya reigned over much of Central America. Today, descendants keep Maya history alive—a sign of resilience. This sculpture of the head of a Mayan warrior found in the Temple of ...

A new study explores multiple scenarios and concludes that civilizations are more likely to collapse when they consume resources faster than they can regenerate them ...

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The ancient Mayan civilization had its origins in the Yucatan Peninsula, in a vast region of Mesoamerica encompassing what today is southeastern Mexico, all of Guatemala and Belize, and the western ...

(via Weathered) In this episode of Weathered, host Maiya May talks with civilization collapse researcher Luke Kemp and strategic climate risk expert Laurie Laybourn about why high-end warming ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper in Communications Earth & Environment ...

Bandele Dada  Migration is the heartbeat of human history. From early nomadic movements that populated continents, to the Silk Road networks that connected civilizations, to the maritime expansions of ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the physicist who helped build the first nuclear reactor and whose name graces a unit ...