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 ...

The collapse of human civilization is now seen as inevitable, according to a research who said 5,000 years of history have exposed clear and alarming patterns. Dr Luke Kemp of the University of ...

The collapse of civilizations : 1177 BC -- Of arms and the man : the fifteenth century BC -- An (Aegean) affair to remember : the fourteenth century BC -- Fighting for gods and country : the ...

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A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate reconstructions show that the Indus Valley Civilization endured repeated long ...

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 ...

IT is hard for America to get very worried about the collapse of civilization. Somehow, people have the feeling that on the morning after the collapse, Eddie Cantor would bring out a book called “Yoo ...

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 ...

The April 29 article on seafood sustainability (Daily Journal, page 15) carefully avoids the twin causes of all environmental problems: the suffocating number of people on the planet, and our fantasy ...

There is something fascinating about the end of the world. For centuries, artists have been looking to the idea of the apocalypse as a source of inspiration for tales about the collapse of ...