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 ...

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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 ...

TEHRAN, Iran — A drastic new message adorns the walls of the Iranian capital, usually reserved for war heroes and weapons. “There is a water shortage!” reads the government poster's slogan, inside a ...

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Before checking out the 2025 version, it might be worth going back to watch the 1987 adaptation of “The Running Man.” The original adaptation of Stephen King’s novel – written under his short-lived ...

Water reserves in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city and one of its most important religious centers, have fallen below 3 percent of capacity, putting the city’s 4 million residents on the brink of a ...