It Can't Happen Here: The Nazca caused their own collapse when they cleared their forests in order to make way for agriculture, thus exposing the landscape to wind and flood erosion, according to a study published in the journal Latin American Antiquity.

As hinted earlier tonight in the post on the water crisis, I've put up a longish post on ecology over at culturemonkey. It's the first of two or three posts on zizecology motivated (and excerpted from) one of the papers I wrote this semester.

I've tried to excise the more boring parts, but I can't promise that the result won't still be boring.