Most Australians have known drought in their lifetimes, and have memories of cracked earth and empty streams, paddocks of dust and stories of city reservoirs with only a few weeks’ storage. But our new research finds over the last 1,000 years, Australia has suffered longer, larger and more severe droughts than those recorded over the last century.
Click here for original story, Megadroughts helped topple ancient empires. They’re in Australia’s past, with more to come
Source: Phys.org