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Politics, climate conspire as Tigris and Euphrates dwindle
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNext year, the water will come. The pipes have been laid to Ata Yigit’s sprawling farm in Turkey’s...
Facing Intense Heat and Dust Storms, Iraq Aims to Plant 5 Million Trees
Yale Environment 360 via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has announced plans to plant 5 million trees to help...
The 3 Most Exciting Places to Drink Wine in Istanbul
Robb Report via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoVisiting Istanbul 25 years ago, oenophiles were more or less limited to a single wine available at restaurants: a red produced by Kavaklidere. Few...
Bodies of water all over North America are drying up due to drought, climate change: Experts
ABC News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBodies of water all over North America are drying up as a result of drought and a decrease in...
Two people died of cholera in northwest Syria post-quake -civil defence
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTwo people have died of cholera in Syria's opposition-held northwest in the aftermath of a...
Salt, drought decimate buffaloes in Iraq's southern marshes
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAbbas Hashem fixed his worried gaze on the horizon — the day was almost gone and still, there was no...
Iraq's water crisis drying up fish farming in Basra
Reuters via Yahoo News· 10 months agoIraq is in the grip of a severe water shortage which has left crop growers and food producers such as Iraqi fish farmer Qasem Karam facing the loss of...
Iraq's 'pearl of the south' Lake Sawa dry amid water crisis
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHussam al-Aqouli remembers the exact spot along southern Iraq’s Lake Sawa where his two daughters...
Iraqi PM promises action to tackle crippling climate change
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIraq's prime minister Sunday promised sweeping measures to tackle climate change — which has...
INSIGHT-Middle East's Fertile Crescent dries up as rains fail
Reuters via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoAbbas Elwan drilled well after well in a desperate bid to find water for his family's parched farmlands in southern Iraq. Hikma Meteab found her husband's body the next day with a gunshot wound ...