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

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 ...

FRUITA, Colo. — The scrubby green plants that fill a checkerboard of 24-by-36-foot research plots on the arid plains of Mesa County could be part of a major shift in agriculture in the drought ...

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 ...

Despite its introduction to the Indian subcontinent nearly 400 years ago, eucalyptus is often unfairly criticised. Some ...

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

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 ...

Growing up in Fredricksburg on the arid plains of central Texas, Chester Nimitz hardly seemed destined to become one of America's great naval heroes. In fact, as a teenager he first inquired about ...

Wyoming – which conjures up images of cowboys riding across arid plains – might seem like a comical name for the small Rhode Island village that's perhaps best known as a stop on Interstate 95.