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Drought drives economic exodus from Iraq's rivers and marshlands
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn a sun-scorched shoreline in Iraq's southern marshlands, fishermen stood shovelling a grim catch:...
After Comeback, Southern Iraq’s Marshes Are Now Drying Up
Yale Environment 360 via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfter recovering from Saddam Hussein’s campaign to drain them, Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshes are disappearing as a regional drought enters its fourth year and upstream dams cut off water flows ...