Climate change is not just a modern dilemma; it’s a force that has reshaped the trajectory of human history time and again.

The aflaj wells, dating from 1000 BCE to 300 CE, are the museum’s first in situ display. These underground water channels, ...

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

New research reveals Sumer’s cities may have risen with the tides, rewriting the origin story of the world’s first ...

Mining is the ‘keystone industry’. Without it, the global economy will collapse like an arch without its keystone. Its fingerprints are also all over human-made climate change. But here’s the rub: the ...

Ancient trees may have played a key role in regulating Earth's climate during the last ice age—by 'breathing' less ...

Although the Greeks and Romans linked environmental harm with climate change to a more limited extent than we do today, they ...

Beneath the verdant pools of Gan Ha-Shelosha lies a network of medieval tunnels that once powered the thriving sugar industry of the Mamluk Empire.

China has built the world's largest, most comprehensive and most integrated meteorological observation system, Bi Baogui, deputy administrator of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said on ...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three people whose combined discoveries outlined the role of the peripheral immune system—how the immune system knows to attack just foreign ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen have stated that the inscriptions on the frescoes of the ancient city of Teotihuacan in Mexico may represent an early form of the language from which the ...