The Indus Valley civilization, located in present-day Pakistan and India, went through four periods of intense drought, which ...

A series of century-scale droughts may have quietly reshaped one of the world’s earliest urban civilizations. New climate ...

Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper published in Communications Earth & ...

Long drought cycles reshaped settlement choices in the Indus region. These climate stresses likely contributed to its slow collapse. A series of severe droughts, each extending for more than 85 years, ...

Travelling the Indus from Kalabagh to Makhad Sharif is to witness Pakistan’s past, present, and imperilled future flowing ...

Climate data offers clues to what might have happened to people of the Indus River Valley and how that might relate to our own warming world.

Climate simulations suggest that long droughts slowly pushed the Indus Valley Civilization to relocate, reorganize, and ...

A revamped national strategy targets habitat restoration, safer river flows, and community action to protect the country’s ...

Research shows the Indus Valley Civilization declined due to repeated century-long droughts that reduced rainfall, strained ...

A joint team of WWF-Pakistan and the Sindh Wildlife Department recently rescued two stray Indus River dolphin calves caught in a canal in eastern Pakistan Sukkur, Pakistan: A joint team of ...

Despite severe threats to Indus River dolphins throughout their remaining range, results from a comprehensive WWF survey released today show a dramatic increase in the population of the endangered ...

ON THE INDUS RIVER, Pakistan – Pakistanis call the Indus the Father of the Rivers, the Blue Water, the Lion River. Ancient civilizations thrived around it. Shrines to Sufi and Hindu saints dot its ...