UCI and International Institutions Link Southeast Asia Megadrought to Drying in Africa
August 22, 2020
August 22, 2020
IRVINE, California, Aug. 22 -- The University of California Irvine campus issued the following news release on Aug. 21:
Physical evidence found in caves in Laos helps tell a story about a connection between the end of the Green Sahara - when once heavily vegetated Northern Africa became a hyper-arid landscape - and a previously unknown megadrought that crippled Southeast Asia 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, scientists at th . . .
Physical evidence found in caves in Laos helps tell a story about a connection between the end of the Green Sahara - when once heavily vegetated Northern Africa became a hyper-arid landscape - and a previously unknown megadrought that crippled Southeast Asia 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, scientists at th . . .