The Indus River, the largest river in Pakistan, holds immense significance in the economic, agricultural, and spiritual lives ...

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

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 blamed ...

The Missan Oil Company says that 300 square kilometres (116 square miles) of the field's area overlap with the marshes' buffer zone, but that the oilfield does not encroach on the core.

Nestled between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, ... (three feet) deep. Um al-Naaj lake, once teeming with fish, is now just three metres deep, compared with at least six before the drought.

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 ...

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers originate in the mountains of eastern Turkey. Together, they account for over 90% of Iraq’s freshwater and around 88% of Syria’s. Yet Turkey, sitting upstream ...

Iraq accuses both Iran and Turkey of unilaterally managing shared water resources by constructing dams and diverting river channels without regional coordination. The reduced flows in the Euphrates ...

It was Mesopotamia, the land between two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, two of the rivers that many, many people have heard of from their history books, from reading the Bible, from reading ...

Mangroves provide natural habitat for shrimp and fish, forming the foundation of coastal and estuarine food chains. Mongabay encounters a 49-year-old local in a boat, who says he’s fished ...