Located on an escarpment of the Upper Tigris River Basin that is part of the so-called Fertile Crescent, the fortified city of Diyarbakır and the landscape around has been an important centre since ...
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 ...
More than 4,000 years ago, two Sumerian city-states – Lagash and Umma – were engaged in a fierce war over a strip of fertile land and a canal fed by the Tigris River in what today would be southern ...
(THE CONVERSATION) Just over half the world’s population shares a river or lake basin with at least one other country. To sustainably manage those water resources for the health of people ...
The Bay Area is in for another weather whiplash, with some cities likely to break record-high temperatures for the first time in nearly a century before an unsettled pattern takes hold ...
For the second straight year, East River sophomore Larielle Tharps was the best bowler on the best team in the state. She again led the Falcons to an undefeated season as the anchor for a repeat ...
As extreme weather events have hit the world hard in recent years, one meteorology term — atmospheric rivers — has made the leap from scientific circles to common language, particularly in ...
After back-to-back colder than average days and nights, temperatures will be increasing to the highest level of 2025 by Wednesday! While that comes as a reminder that March has big swings in ...