Almost a century ago, on October 15, 1927, the forerunner of BP struck oil at Kirkuk in northern Iraq. An uncontrollable fountain of oil, 95,000 barrels per day, shot into the air for 10 days, ...

Thousands of years of water cooperation paid off More than 4,000 years ago, two Sumerian city-states – Lagash and Umma – were ...

Al-Adhaim River is one of the main tributaries of the Tigris River, it has three main tributaries: Khassa Soo, Aq Soo, and ...

Videos flooded social media showed severe flooding ... by low river levels, lack of rain and rising sea levels. Reduced water flow from its two main rivers, the Euphrates and Tigris, and record ...

Troy officials say they were monitoring the river in flood-prone areas downtown and in Lansingburgh. Hudson River water levels were elevated under the Green Island Bridge on Thursday. Troy ...

Scores of Bodies Found in Tigris River; 19 Executed in Separate Killing Iraqi authorities pulled the bodies of more than 50 people believed to be Shiite hostages seized in the Madain region south ...

Highlighting the state government’s previous flood control efforts, Oresanya noted that last year’s intervention—dredging of the Oparo River—helped reduce flood retention time from five to ...

Mackay has been lashed with 100mm of rain in the last 12 hours sparking a major flood warning for the Pioneer River, while further south, low-lying areas of the Gold Coast have also been warned to ...

FOSTER FALLS, Va. (WFXR) — Six months ago as the remnants of Hurricane Helene caused some of the worst flooding seen in decades on the New River, there were concerns about how the river might be ...