image: Paul Krusic from the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory's Tree Ring Laboratory coring juniper (Juniperus recurva) in the upper Khali Kandaki valley, Nepal. This image relates to an article that appeared in the April 23, 2010, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Edward R. Cook of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in Palisades, NY, and colleagues, was titled, "Asian Monsoon Failure and Megadrought During the Last Millennium." view more
Credit: Edward Cook & Paul Krusic