Already strained by water scarcity and political tensions, the arid Middle East along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers is losing critical water reserves at a rapid pace, from Turkey upstream to Syria, Iran and Iraq below. The researchers, from the University of California – Irvine, based their findings on satellite measurements from 2003 – 2010 […]
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Modern man emerged from Middle East, suggests elephantine evidence
The elephant – a huge package of protein that is easy to hunt – disappeared from the Middle East around 400,000 years ago. This would have imposed considerable nutritional stress on Homo erectus, say Tel Aviv University researchers, who suggest that the loss of easy food favored hominids who were more knowledgeable and better at […]