In the Field (IMAGE)

Columbia Climate School

In the Field

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Numerous droughts have hit European agriculture over the ages, but their overall extent has been known mainly only from scattered historical documents. Here, an English calendar page, circa 1310, shows men harvesting wheat.

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Queen Mary's Psalter, Wikimedia commons

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