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Decades of extreme weather crippled, and ultimately decimated, first the political culture and later the human population of the ancient Maya, according to a new study by an interdisciplinary team of researchers that includes two University of California, Davis, scientists. 
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Ancient manuscripts written by Arabic scholars can provide valuable meteorological information to help modern scientists reconstruct the climate of the past, a new study has revealed.
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Scientists believe they've cracked one of the oldest mysteries of a disappearing civilization. The culprit? Climate change. Nearly 5,000 years ago the Harappan or Indus people created a society on the fertile Indus Valley that is now India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh—rivaling contemporary civilizations like Mesopotamia and Egypt, and making up 10 percent of the world's population. But nearly 2,000 years later its cities that spanned over 380,000 square miles were abandoned and crumbling.
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A new study reports that the disintegration of the Maya Civilization may have been related to relatively modest reductions in rainfall.
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