At one time, the lush marshes of southern Iraq nourished a thriving array of ... Marsh Arabs breached dams and canals to re-flood a large area of the wetlands in 2003. "Forty percent of the ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq has lost 95 percent of the fish in its marshes and nearly 30 percent of its buffalos due to climate change, the head of an environmental non-governmental organizatio ...

In an unexpected turn of weather patterns, heavy rains have swept Iraq, offering a glimmer of ... The downpours have revived the Iraqi marshes, a Unesco World Heritage Site thought to be the ...