A recent archaeological discovery has revealed that an ancient pre-Columbian society in the Amazon region successfully ...

A smart water system created 1,500 years ago by an ancient Amazonian urban society turned swampy savanna into fertile farmland that produced corn all year round, a new study has found.

Due to climate change and other factors, water levels are plummeting. Learn what could help and why it’s so important to ...

A pre-Columbian society in the Amazon developed a sophisticated agricultural engineering system that allowed them to produce maize throughout the ...

A new study published in Nature highlights how rural-urban interactions and improved city connections are transforming oasis ...

In a significant legislative move, U.S. Senators Ben Ray Luján and John Cornyn have reintroduced the ACEQUIA Act, a bipartisan effort to bolster drought protections for acequias—community-managed ...

The Sumerians of Mesopotamia are considered the world's oldest civilisation, dating back to around 4000 BCE. The Sumerians ...

The discovery shed new light on just how advanced the civilisation that lived in the ancient city of Petra was.

A recent paper critically examines the ahar-pyne system in South Bihar, India, challenging the romanticised view of ...