Originally, the village of Wyoming was known as Brand's Iron Works, because the main local industry was Samuel Brand's iron ...

For centuries, pastoralist communities have herded animals across arid plains in Ethiopia and Kenya, guided by the sacred wells that quenched their ancestors’ thirst in times of drought.

The limits posed by intrinsic properties of some geographical places, like the arid plains in which cotton-growing is artificially sustained, have proven us empirically wrong about nature's capacity ...

Abstract: Site selection analysis was carried out to find the best suitable lands for development activities in an example of promising coastal plains, southwestern Sinai, Egypt. Two GIS models were ...

Some 3,000 years ago the Persians learned how to dig underground aqueducts that would bring mountain ground water to arid plains. Today the system provides 75 percent of the water used in Iran ...

In the 1960s, the Soviet Union undertook a major water diversion project on the arid plains of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. The region’s two major rivers, fed by snowmelt and ...

Some 3,000 years ago the Persians learned how to dig underground aqueducts that would bring mountain ground water to arid plains. Today the system provides 75 percent of the water used in Iran ...