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ScienceDaily: The long history of severe droughts across Europe and the Mediterranean has largely been told through historical documents and ancient journals, each chronicling the impact in a geographically restricted area. Now, for the first time, an atlas based on scientific evidence provides the big picture, using tree rings to map the reach and severity of dry and wet periods across Europe, and parts of North Africa and the Middle East, year to year over the past 2,000 years. Together with two previous drought......
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New drought atlas maps 2,000 years of climate in Europe
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 7th, 2015
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