Colorado's Front Range and Eastern Plains are seeing drought conditions improve. Ancient DNA reveals how Mayan civilisation ...

Brittany Van Voorhees shares the latest drought monitor update and breaks down what recent rainfall has done to help.

More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer joined an intrepid ...

Pollen grains are far more than allergens – they are nature’s time capsules, preserving clues about Earth’s past environments ...

The upper layers of the sediment cores, which capture more recent times, contain pollen mostly from wind-pollinated, salt- and drought-tolerant plants ... especially during the rise and fall of the ...

Tikal developed from a small “watering hole” into one of the biggest and most powerful Maya cities of Mesoamerica.

Archaeologists believe the Offering Cave became a pilgrimage site during a devastating drought around the year 900 that contributed to the collapse of Mayan civilization. Cave rituals, including ...

Because Maya architecture in this part of the world ... there is less flexibility for people to move to new areas in times of drought or crisis. Densely populated societies are more vulnerable ...

Maya farmers in Yucatán, Mexico, have rekindled a pre-Hispanic ceremony that calls for rain from the god Cháak as the state suffers its worst drought in 50 years. The extended dry season has ...

Through mass spectrometric analyses of tiny stalagmite samples, they found that, during the decline of the Maya, the Yucatán Peninsula experienced a succession of drought events with a 40 per ...

The ancient Maya city of Tikal relied on urban reservoirs to supply water during periods of drought. They essentially built "constructed wetlands" that relied upon key minerals and aquatic plants ...