Photograph by DEA, A. DAGLI ORTI/De Agostini via Getty Images) The Indus Valley people benefited from the highly fertile lands of the Indus River floodplain and trade from nearby Mesopotamia.

As climate change and geopolitical tensions converge, South Asia's fragile hydro-politics could be entering a dangerous new ...

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 Of all the cities that bloomed along the Tigris and ...

GRACE measured groundwater usage between 2003 and 2009 and found that the Tigris-Euphrates Basin—comprising Turkey ... the nearly dry Jordan River, and Israel has agreed to release freshwater ...

This study is part of a larger effort exploring “Innovations in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus (INFEWS)” in the Columbia River Basin (CRB) through coordinated modeling and simulated management scenarios.

Tim Marshall examines why water is fast becoming a trigger for conflict, from South Asia to the Middle East – and why climate ...

Huwaizah Marshes (Iraq) (AFP) – Plans to drill for oil in the protected Mesopotamian Marshes of southern Iraq have galvanised villagers and activists determined to save the mythical wetlands ...

Nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the Mesopotamian Marshes depend on rivers and tributaries originating in neighbouring Turkey and Iran. Sparse rainfall and reduced water flows ...

On the night Pakistan thought it would retaliate, India outplayed it. What began as a typical tit-for-tat posturing turned into a showcase of India’s strategic brilliance and technological supremacy.

In the book - actually a set of inscribed clay tablets - Gilgamesh was described as having been buried under the Euphrates, in a tomb apparently constructed when the waters of the ancient river parted ...

The power of geography The Tigris and Euphrates rivers originate in the ... Binding legal frameworks based on international river basin principles. Joint river commissions involving Iraq, Syria ...