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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

Neither the West nor the East Spanish Peak is a fourteener, yet they soar seven thousand feet out of the arid plains, higher than any point in the country farther east. They were the first glimpse ...

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 ...

Over a million years ago, Homo erectus defied the extreme conditions of African deserts. A recent study reveals how this ...