/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Benjamin%20Keenan/rss en /channels/channels/news/faecal-records-show-maya-population-affected-climate-change-331661 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>A McGill-led study has shown that the size of the Maya population in the lowland city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itzan">Itzan</a> (in present-day Guatemala) varied over time in response to climate change. The findings, published recently in <i><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379121001116">Quaternary Science Reviews</a></i><i>,</i> show that both droughts and very wet periods led to important population declines.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/itzanjpg39_for_posting.png?itok=AHyG5v0e" width="160" height="100" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">30 </span><span class="month">June </span><span class="year">2021</span></div></div></div></div></div> Wed, 30 Jun 2021 14:27:29 +0000 webfull 171354 at /channels