Learn more here. The “Fertile Crescent,” a term coined by University of Chicago Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, refers to a crescent-shaped region in Western Asia. Formed by the Tigris and ...

The announcement comes from scientists at the University of Missouri, who found humans first welcomed the pets in the Fertile Crescent, the areas of the Middle East surrounding the Tigris and ...

By Manuela Andreoni Human-made climate change is driving a yearslong extreme drought in Iran, Iraq and Syria, an area that encompasses a region known as the Fertile Crescent and a cradle of ...

Part of the “Fertile Crescent”, an arc sweeping from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf where farming developed more than 10,000 years ago, Iraq has been devastated by a triple blow of ...

CLIMATEWIRE | The Middle East's Fertile Crescent is experiencing one of the most severe droughts in its history — and climate change has made it worse. Rising temperatures, driven by human ...

And what really struck me is that this used to be a place called the Fertile Crescent. It was Mesopotamia, the land between two rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, two of the rivers that many ...