Over a thousand years ago, the Maya civilization was dealing with an unpredictable climate. In response to natural obstacles including overpopulation and drought, the Maya developed intricate farming ...

University of Cincinnati researchers found evidence of sustainable agriculture and forestry spanning a millennia in one ancient Maya city. UC researchers used genetic and pollen analyses to provide ...

Maya collapse wasn’t driven by drought alone, but by a cascading breakdown of interconnected political, social, and economic systems.

A study explores how ancient Maya cultivated wetlands in Belize. Wetlands can function as farming fields during times of extreme weather events and provide evidence of environmental changes. However, ...

Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political decline which, according to the scientific literature, coincided with ...

Drawing inspiration from the work and legacy of Elizabeth Brumfiel, I develop a case study about the lives and religious practices of Maya farmers at the Chan site in Belize, to demonstrate how ...

Soils, especially those in tropical forests, play an important role in absorbing carbon and keeping it out of the atmosphere; the world’s soil currently holds about twice as much carbon as the air.

Forest soil may take centuries to recover carbon sinks damaged by deforestation. "In order to really sequester carbon in soils, you want to be sure it will stay there for a long time. This work ...