🇨🇳 **Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China**

"_We demonstrate that recurrent flooding and prolonged droughts, combined with an unsustainable shift in crop production from drought-tolerant millet to less resilient wheat and rice, led to harvest failures and food shortages during the cooler and drier climatic conditions of the late 9th and early 10th centuries CE. Intensifying raiding from competing polities and climatic extremes further affected grain supplies for the late Tang’s northern military frontier and partly contributed to the sudden decline of the dynasty._"

Kempf, M., Depaermentier, M.L.C., Spengler III, R.N. et al. Hydroclimatic instability accelerated the socio-political decline of the Tang Dynasty in northern China. Commun Earth Environ 6, 1003 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-03038-x.

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