By Zachary T. Sampson, Shreya Vuttaluru and Bethany Barnes Times Staff Writers Dec. 17, 2025 When they arrived in Longboat ...

Water leaders in the U.S. West gathered this week with a hefty task hanging over their heads — figuring out a long-term plan for sharing water from the Colorado River.

Amid India’s growing water crisis, ancient subterranean stepwells are re-emerging as a way to help alleviate the situation. Environmentalist Arun Krishnamurthy, known for reviving the country’s ...

Tehran is experiencing an unprecedented water crisis. Satellite imagery analysis shows that key reservoirs that feed the capital are far below their typical seasonal variation. The Iranian president ...

Rice is a dietary staple for billions of people worldwide, but not all rice is created equal. The difference between polished ...

The backstory: Ponche’s origins are embedded in the name, which is said to originate from the word in India for five. That’s the number of ingredients in a fruit and spice drink brought to Europe, ...

Using simple observation, a Japanese spy in Pearl Harbor collected crucial information. His full story, however, remains ...

Restricting Tehran’s growth and water use — however politically difficult — would be more prudent than trying to engineer ...

Omar Yaghi thinks crystals with gaps that capture moisture could bring technology from “Dune” to the arid parts of Earth.

The federal government is providing water to some large agricultural districts for free. In a new study, researchers urge the ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, Earth was nothing like the gentle blue planet we know today. Frequent and violent celestial impacts churned its surface and interior into a seething ocean of magma—an ...