Morocco is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tapping northern rivers to supply water to parched cities farther ...

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Rosenberg stressed the danger posed by the Chinese Communist Party. He cited official U.S. sources to back his concerns.

In an instant, dark clouds engulfed the sky, obscuring the scorching sun in Al-Hizamat, a small village near Afak district in Iraq's Diwaniyah Governorate. Rain was imminent. Almost. A few minutes ...

BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — Ridge to Rivers says most trails continue the drying trend on Monday. Sandier, lighter-colored soil trails are dried out and should be perfect for recreation. Some examples of ...

The system, with over 200 major canals and 4,000 smaller ones, was used to divert Euphrates River water to farms. Researchers traced the canals using satellite imagery and geological mapping.

And goes on to add, “For me, it has never been about the Euphrates or the Nile ... and as rainwater washed silt into Bengal’s smaller rivers, many of them began to dry up,” says Karmakar. “This river, ...

This is attributed to a historical shift in the Euphrates River’s course around 1000 BC. The shift dried out the area, leading to its abandonment and preventing later settlements from being ...

A sprawling, hidden network of ancient irrigation canals has been uncovered near the ancient city of Eridu in southern Mesopotamia. Under the leadership of geoarchaeologist Jaafar Jotheri, researchers ...

Researchers have identified an extensive Mesopotamian canal network that supplied ancient farms in the Eridu region with water from the Euphrates river before the first millennium B.C.

The canal network, detailed in the journal Antiquity, remained untouched for centuries due to a shift in the Euphrates river’s course in the first millennium BC. This left the area dry and ...