It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilization itself. But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where with its twin river the Euphrates it made Mesopotamia a cradle…
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BAGHDAD It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself.But today the Tigris is dying.Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where, with its twin river the Euphrates, it made Mesopotamia a cradle of civilisation thousands of years ago.Iraq may be oil-rich but the
BAGHDAD: It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilization itself. But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where with its twin river the Euphrates it made Mesopotamia a cradle of civilization thousands of years ago. Iraq may be oil-rich but