Water has emerged as a new front for power and leverage in a region already burdened by war, political instability, and climate extremes. This is more evident than in the Tigris-Euphrates river ...

Water conflicts are ultimately solvable with political wisdom, diplomacy and a clear understanding of the grave consequences ...

Have you ever imagined a world where the great rivers we depend on—rivers that once seemed eternal—simply vanish? Across the ...

GRACE measured groundwater usage between 2003 and 2009 and found that the Tigris-Euphrates Basin—comprising Turkey, Syria, Iraq and western Iran—is losing water faster than any other place in ...

A reconstruction of Babylon, ca 550 B.C., showing the Marduk temple complex and the Etemenanki as seen from the Euphrates River. Image courtesy of Album / Alamy Stock Photo ...

Facing the worst water reserves in eight decades, Iraq launched a regional initiative aimed at protecting the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, as officials and experts warn that upstream restrictions by ...

The environment has always figured prominently in the nonfiction work of Alan Weisman.In the best-known and bestselling of his five previous books, “The World Without Us” (2007), the planet, devoid of ...

BAGHDAD, May 24 (KUNA) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Al-Sudani announced, Saturday, the launch of a regional initiative aimed at protecting the Tigris and Euphrates rivers from environmental ...