An important water source in Iraq’s southern province of Dhi Qar is drying up, affecting thousands of people and threatening ...

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 ...

The Tigris and Euphrates rivers, flowing from southern Turkey through Syria and Iraq, met at the Shatt al-Arab River near Basra, creating vast marshlands in Iraq and Iran. Seasonal flooding ...

Researchers in Iraq have uncovered an extensive Mesopotamian canal system used for irrigation over 3,000 years ago.

According to the United Nations, some “90 per cent of the country’s rivers are polluted”. Iraq is facing a “critical climate emergency”, said Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the UN special ...

Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid, a researcher at the University of Oxford, weaves together the many strands of the story of the region, which covers much of what is now Iraq. Ancient ...