Megadroughts helped topple ancient empires. We’ve found their traces in Australia’s past, and expect more to come
- Written by: Kathryn Allen, ARC Future Fellow, University of Tasmania
Most Australians have known drought in their lifetimes, and have memories of cracked earth and empty streams, paddocks of dust and stories of city reservoirs with only a few weeks’ storage. But our new research finds over the last 1,000 years, Australia has suffered longer, larger and more severe droughts than those recorded over the last...
