For war-scarred Iraq, climate crisis the next great threat AFP 10 hrs ago AFP © AHMAD AL-RUBAYE A boy walks through a dried up agricultural field in the Saadiya area, north of Diyala in eastern Iraq
As Iraq bakes in the blistering summer heat, its hardscrabble farmers and livestock herders are battling severe water shortages that are killing their animals, fields and way of life.
The oil-rich country, scarred by wars and insurgencies over the past four decades, is also one of the world s most vulnerable to climate change and struggles with a host of other environmental challenges.
Upstream dams in Turkey and Iran have diminished the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which are also heavily polluted with sewage, waste and agricultural runoff as they flow southeast through Iraq.
For war-scarred Iraq, climate crisis the next great threat
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