In 2002, Mr. Shukri spent $250,000 to build a small desalination and purification plant for Modern Valley Farms, which he managed in the Jordan Valley. While it was a significant investment, it allowed him to reuse the valley's abundant brackish water and sell his produce in foreign markets with stricter health requirements.

The Governments of the United States and Germany held a Science and Technology Agreement signing ceremony today at the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C..

The research was an international and interdisciplinary collaboration led by Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, involving archeologists, medical scientists, and anthropologists from Egypt, Germany, and Italy.

The UK and India have announced plans to join forces on developing cost-effective and efficient solar power.

Decades after being imprisoned by North Korea on espionage charges, Dr. Kim Chin-Kyung is opening the first privately funded university in the north as a way to increase dialogue with the closed-off country.

President Obama spoke via video conference to the U.S.-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar today. The President built on his speech to the Muslim world last year in Cairo, where he spoke of peace and cooperation.

At a Feb. 5 conference on the USC campus, CPD joined with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), bringing together scientists, scholars, peacemakers and policymakers to discuss the place of scientific diplomacy in the practice of conflict prevention.

Seven Middle-Eastern countries have joined forces to share ideas about how farmers can get the most out of water resources in the region's driest areas.