This passage through the Peloponnese Peninsula was 2500 years in the making.
Published May 22, 2017
A key shipping route through Egypt recently received a major overhaul.
Published Apr 30, 2016
The largest irrigation canal in the world and a key landmark along the U.S.-Mexico border shows up in this astronaut photograph. This image captures about 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) of the important infrastructure corridor just west of Yuma, Arizona.
Published Feb 23, 2009
Acquired December 17, 2010, this natural-color image shows a sediment-laden Lago Alajuela, a reservoir of the Panama Canal.
Published Dec 21, 2010
This time series of photographs of the Mediterranean coast near the Suez Canal shows ten years of changes associated with two of Egypt’s “Mega” Development Projects. At the mouth of the canal, a large auxiliary channel has been formed as part of a new central hub port and industrial zone, known as the East Port-Said Project. Further south, the effects of the Al-Salam (El Salam or “Peace”) Canal and North Sinai Agricultural Development Program can be seen as desert is converted to irrigated agriculture.
Published Jun 10, 2001
Water in this Pacific Northwest fjord resembles the color of the Caribbean Sea.
Published Aug 4, 2017
The fast-growing city has polluted waterways and a growing demand for clean tap water.
Published Apr 11, 2017
Water has stopped pouring from the broken wall of the Sardoba Reservoir, but many areas are still submerged.
Published May 11, 2020
This part of the eastern Sahara is very dry, but greenery has been cropping up in recent decades.
Published Mar 11, 2017
In 1964, it was the world's fourth largest lake. Thanks to irrigation projects, now it is mostly gone.
Published Feb 24, 2012
A new study found that the abundance of these floating plants has increased due to urbanization.
Published Sep 2, 2020
Even in China’s largest, driest, and hottest desert, vegetation sprouts in the spring.
Published May 5, 2020
Modern international shipping meets the ancient world in the famous canal.
Published Nov 16, 2015
An arid region grew even drier between 2003 and 2009 due to human consumption of water for drinking and agriculture.
Published Mar 13, 2013
