Host Alex Chadwick talks to Dr. Tim Fordsman, head of the United Nations Environmental Program's Division of Early Warning and Assessment. They discuss the disappearing marshlands of the Fertile ...

Researchers reported 9,200-year-old evidence of plant use and wild cereal harvesting from Toda Cave in southern Uzbekistan, arguing it represented a precursor to agriculture and broadened where and ...

The dawn of agriculture in the Neolithic was a major development in the evolution of modern human culture. Although scientists agree that farming developed independently several times around the world ...

The first goat farmers created the best breeds for meat, milk and hides by breeding their beasts with wild herds. Humans began domesticating animals more than 10,000 years ago, thereby ensuring a ...

Every schoolchild learns the name: Mesopotamia – the Fertile Crescent, the cradle of civilization. Today, much of that land is turning to dust. By Alissa J. Rubin Photographs and Video by Bryan Denton ...

Is the Middle East fated to be held hostage by an endless struggle between two powers that share a common geography and history? The rivalry between Turkey and Iran is not just a chapter from the past ...