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 ...

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

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress ...

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

I was a tourist now in a country I had once protested my own nation for invading. Needing to escape both the heat and the ...

On a low rise in southeastern Turkey, a ring of carved stone pillars has forced archaeologists to rethink how civilization ...