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Ashish Sinha and Gayatri Kathayat, The Conversation

What 1,000-year-old stalagmites in a cave in Cherrapunji reveal about India’s monsoon patterns

The subcontinent frequently experienced long, severe droughts unlike any observed in the last 150 years of reliable monsoon rainfall measurements.

Ashish Sinha and Gayatri Kathayat, The Conversation
· Sep 21, 2022 · 01:30 pm
Climate change fuelled the rise and demise of the powerful Neo-Assyrian Empire

Numerous theorists have failed to explain the collapse of the superpower that flourished beginning 912 BCE. Now, we have an answer.

Ashish Sinha and Gayatri Kathayat, The Conversation
· Nov 18, 2019 · 09:30 pm