In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in ...

The Israeli occupation police have forcibly evicted three Palestinian families from their homes in the Batn al-Hawa ...

Cape Town and Chennai in recent years endured punishing droughts. Similar conditions afflicted Bengaluru and Hyderabad last ...

Tehran’s water crisis shows how climate change and poor water management can push even large cities toward “day zero”. Indian ...

Tehran receives rainfall, offering limited relief as the city and wider Iran continue to face a severe drought.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday warned that the Black Sea should not turn into an "area of confrontation" ...

A high-level meeting focused on the situation in Lebanon is set to take place next week in Paris, with senior Lebanese, ...

Jomart Tokayev has announced that Kazakhstan is prepared to export more than $200 million in goods to Iran, as the two countries move to deepen trade and investment cooperation, according to Akorda.

The drought gripping Iran has seen its president warn the country it may need to move its government out of Tehran by the end ...

It's increasingly becoming clear that the new currency won't be green — it'll be blue. The sparkling, deep blue of water, to be specific. Our area of the Midwest is blessed with an abundance of water, ...