From London, at the Environmental Catastrophes and Recovery in the Holocene conference
Historical records compiled by local governments along China’s southeastern coast during the past 1,000 years suggest that there’s a regular cycle in the annual number of typhoons that strike the area.
Officials in many counties in China record events of importance in semiofficial local gazettes, or fang zhi, says Kam-biu Liu, a geographer at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.