millennia

Yemen War Can Destroy Millennia-Old Preserved Mummies

Medicine & Technology May 14, 2017

The after effects of the Yemen war are very damaging to the country. The ongoing war has created a risk for the millennia old mummies kept in the museum.

On Droughts and Dust Bowls—California Looks Back to 1934

Oct 17, 2014

Recently accepted for publication by the journal Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, the research lead by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyzed the relative intensity and devastation caused by droughts since 1000 AD and found that though the 2014 summer in California was particularly out of the ordinary even in the driest of areas, it did not quite compare to the drought of 1934.