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A new study combining the latest archaeological evidence with state-of-the-art geoscience technologies provides evidence that climate change was a key ingredient in the collapse of the great Indus or Harappan Civilization almost 4000 years ago. 
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The similarities offer a look at how ever-growing human societies could collapse.
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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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Failed monsoons in 14th and 15th century coincide with the Khmer Empire's collapse in SE Asia.
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Ancient Meso-American civilizations of the Mayans and Aztecs likely amplified droughts in the Yucatan and southern Mexico by clearing rainforests to make room for pastures and farmland.
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The instability of large, complex societies is a predictable phenomenon, according to a new mathematical model that explores the emergence of early human societies via warfare.
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Shifts in exchange patterns provide a new perspective on the fall of inland Maya centers in Mesoamerica approximately 1,000 years ago. MAYA: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?tag=maya
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Forty years after its initial publication, a study called The Limits to Growth is looking depressingly prescient. Commissioned by an international think tank called the Club of Rome, the 1972 report found that if civilization continued on its path toward increasing consumption, the global economy would collapse by 2030. Population losses would ensue, and things would generally fall apart.
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The world can deliver sudden and nasty shocks. Economies can crash, fisheries can collapse, and climates can pass tipping points.
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Damien Walter: Recent SF novels dealing with the fall of western capitalism seem right on the mark. But do they offer any answers?
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Surge in the world's population means there is only a 10% chance of avoiding a collapse of global civilisation, says professor...
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