Happy Birthday to the late, great mother of wisdom, Ms. Maya Angelou. The writer, poet and singer would have been 97 years old today, and thankfully she left behind such brilliant works for us to ...

The Maya built and maintained self-cleaning wetland reservoirs that served urban populations over millennia. U. of I. anthropology professor Lisa Lucero writes that the water-related crises they faced ...

A new study casts doubt on drought as the driver of ancient Mayan civilization collapse. There is no dispute that a series of droughts occurred in the Yucatan Peninsula of southeastern Mexico and ...

DANBURY — Fifth graders at Great Plain Elementary School came home this past week with their own rare quarter and a reminder of the lesson from the late poet Maya Angelou — that “people will never ...

A new study casts doubt on drought as the driver of ancient Mayan civilization collapse. A new study casts doubt on drought as the driver of ancient Mayan civilization collapse. There is no dispute ...

Ancient Maya reservoirs, which used aquatic plants to filter and clean the water, 'can serve as archetypes for natural, sustainable water systems to address future water needs.' The Maya built and ...