Planetary scientists suspect that, when young, our planet met with an enormous celestial
body in a random collision that tilted the earth's rotational axis relative to its orbital plane …

Communities worldwide are critically re-examining their seasonal cultures and calendars.
As cultural frameworks, seasons have long patterned community life and provided …

Communities worldwide face changing seasonalities, as the chapters in this book have
described from a multitude of angles. This may be caused by large scale processes like …