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Climate Change and the Fall of the Indus Valley Civilization: Interview with Dr. Alena Giesche

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The world's climate isn't stable, but how can we understand climate change in the past? Dr. Alena Giesche is an expert on ancient climates, and she explains both how the field of paleoclimate studies works and its application to a massive issue: the fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, a topic on which she's spent years working.


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