Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry.

Mesopotamia, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is recognized as the earliest cradle of civilization due to ...

The Amazon is the most powerful river in the world. With an average discharge of over 209,000 m³/s, it pours 20% of all global freshwater into the ocean. Learn about its massive 6,400 km length and 7 ...

Globalization, migration, climate change and war—nation states are currently under huge pressure on many fronts.

For more than a century, the standard story has held that Sumerian cities rose only after powerful rulers dug vast canal networks between the Tigris and Euphrates. Those canals unlocked large-scale ...

When Kevin Haggerty drives around the farms south of Bozeman, he sees more than just the dense development and traffic. He sees the area where his mother was born in a cabin, fields his ancestors ...

More than five thousand years ago, in the fertile lowlands of southern Mesopotamia, the world’s first cities began to rise from the mud. Historians have long credited this explosion of ...

In the lands of ancient Mesopotamia, a team of archaeologists and geologists has accomplished a remarkable feat. They have successfully mapped a large and complex network of irrigation canals ...

An almond orchard in Parlier provides a look into the future of farming. Researchers at UC Merced and the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources installed an irrigation system ...