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Land use decisions may have altered climate and contributed to the collapse of Mayan society in the tenth century.
NASA Earth Observatory images created by Jesse Allen, using model data provided courtesy of Dr. Benjamin Cook, Columbia University and Jed Kaplan of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (land cover). Caption by Holli Riebeek.
Published February 1, 2012 Data acquired 800 - 950