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Climate change has impacted the Middle East and North Africa where summer is already very hot.The United Nations says Iraq is one of the five countries most impacted by some effects of climate change.
Climate change has impacted the Middle East and North Africa where summer is already very hot. Many in Iraq, Syria, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia still labour in the heat.
Climate change has impacted the Middle East and North Africa where summer is already very hot. Heat is a tool of the trade for blacksmith Murad Haddad in the city of Idlib in northwest Syria. "We make everything by hand here. We get up early to try to avoid the extra heat we're exposed to as well as the flames," the 30-year-old told AFP. He and his five brothers take it in turn to use skills handed down by their grandfather as they toil in torching temperatures.