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National Public Radio: Rome may have fallen hundreds of years ago, but much of the civilization the Romans built still dots the landscape today. One team of scientists recently unearthed a different kind of Roman artifact that may hold a strange clue to the empire's downfall. A study of tree rings recently published in the journal Science provides evidence of climate shifts that, perhaps not coincidentally, occurred from A.D. 250 to 550, a period better known as the fall of the Roman Empire. Ulf Buentgen and his team......
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Could Climate Change Have Led To The Fall Of Rome?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on January 22nd, 2011
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