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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...
Rivers can suddenly change course – scientists used 50 years of satellite images to learn where and...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 10 months agoSatellite image of the Irrawaddy River delta in Myanmar, a major rice growing area. European Space...
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...
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 ...
Opinion: The right's antisemitism problem is well known. What about the left's?
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 5 months agoClaudine Gay, president of Harvard, and then-president of University of Pennsylvania Liz Magill were...
Water scarcity in Iraq leads to the disappearance of a signature rice
Washington Post via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAL-MASHKHAB, Iraq - When Abbas Al-Zalemi walks through his fields, he remembers better times. Amber...
Opinion: For Iraqis like me, the U.S. invasion 20 years ago isn't a distant memory — it's our daily...
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn Iraqi family grieves after three relatives were shot dead by U.S. Marines on April 9, 2003....
This Scenic 30-hour Overnight Train Through Turkey Feels Like the Orient Express — but Costs Less...
Travel+Leisure via Yahoo News· 10 months ago"You could almost say that where the Orient Express ends, the Eastern Express begins," writes a...
The 1st World Cup in the Middle East highlights the region's vulnerability to climate change
Yahoo News via AOL· 1 year agoThe first World Cup to be held in the Middle East is highlighting the region’s intense vulnerability...