Abstract The Yellow River Basin (YRB) is characterized by active geological and tectonic
processes, rapid geomorphological evolution, and distinct climatic diversity …

Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

Historical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-
Renaissance Europe. The Decline and Rise of Democracy draws from global evidence to …

Despite massive flood protection efforts in China, undertaken since the ancient times,
disastrous floods continue to plague the country. In this paper, we discuss changes in flood …

Field biology is an area of research that involves working directly with living organisms in
situ through a practice known as “fieldwork.” Conducting fieldwork often requires complex …

There is a strong inter-annual and inter-decadal variability in time series of variables related
to water abundance, such as intense precipitation, high river discharge, flood magnitude …

Outburst floods can have disastrous impacts on people, and are an important driving force in
landscape change and have been studied widely on Earth. In China, although outburst …

Between 5 and 4 thousand years ago, crippling megadroughts led to the disruption of
ancient civilizations across parts of Africa and Asia, yet the extent of these climate extremes …

Although archaeological findings show the synchronous collapses of major well-
documented Chinese Neolithic cultures around 4000 cal. yr BP, the driving mechanism for …

The response of population and agriculture to abrupt climate events remains a matter of
heated debates, especially the societal collapses related to the 4.2 ka event. Long-term …