Syracuse, N.Y. -- Residents and businesses in some Onondaga and Madison county towns could run out of water by Sunday if residents and businesses don’t step up their conservation efforts, officials ...

Dr. Frankopan is a professor of global history at Oxford and the author of “The Earth Transformed: An Untold History.” This month Tehran, a city of 10 million people, was questioning its viability.

Because of shifting storms and sweltering summers, Iran’s capital faces a future “Day Zero” when the taps run dry. These cascading impacts stem from a prolonged shortage of precipitation in recent ...

New research from the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin shows the region’s water supply could fail to meet the area’s needs by 2030, in the event of an extreme drought. Changing weather ...

WEST ODESSA (The Texas Tribune) — When Paula Graham’s family moved here to chase the oil boom in the 1980s, this unincorporated portion of Ector County was scarcely populated. Roads were barely paved.

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"Water for Elephants" is an invigorating blend of contemporary circus and musical theater. The touring show, playing at the Providence Performing Arts Center from Dec. 2 through Dec. 7, follows Mr.

Iranian women pray for rain at the Saleh Shrine in Tehran on Nov. 14. (Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA/Shutterstock) Iran is best known as an exporter of terror and mayhem ...

Rows of worshippers, some with their faces raised toward the sky, others with their heads bowed, prayed for rain at a mosque in Tehran earlier this month. Theirs is an increasingly desperate plea. The ...

Texas is running out of water. The booming population and industry growth, coupled with declining water supply, have many parts of the state on a path to severe shortages in the coming decades.

The extreme water shortage around Tehran, Iran’s capital, has led the clerical regime to draw up plans for the evacuation of the city. Iran’s government has carried out the first cloud-seeding ...