Written information about Latin American climates and related topics begins before the Spanish conquest, in the Maya and Aztec states of Mesoamerica. The development of Latin America’s climate history as a systematic ...

Fossil beetles and pollen were examined from an intermorainal bog at Puerto Edén, Isla Wellington, Chile (latitude 49°08'S, longitude 74°25'W). Wood from near the base of the section has an age of 12 960 ± 150 yr BP. ...

Since the late 1980s, a new vocabulary associated with concerns about climate change has emerged. Nevertheless, this article argues that the concepts used to describe urban adaptation are a part of the history of urban ...

Narrative evidence contained within historical documents and inscriptions provides an important record of climate variability for periods prior to the onset of systematic meteorological data collection. A common approach ...

A pollen record is presented from Laguna de Aculeo (33°50′S, 70°55′W, 360 m a.s.l.) that documents important vegetation changes over the last 2500 cal. yr in Central Chile. Grasses, composites, trees, paludal and aquatic ...