When Israel gained official recognition in 1948, it confronted a massive problem. How do you supply enough water for a fast-growing population on land where natural rainfall is unevenly distributed?

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy — and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland ...