Iraq launched an ambitious strategy on Wednesday to protect and improve its environment over the next six years, in the war-scarred nation's latest bid to confront escalating environmental challenges.

Dealing with environmental degradation and the climate crisis in Iraq is a herculean task, but quite simply, Iraq cannot afford to sit idly by. The well-being and human rights of people in Iraq ...

Iraq's prime minister on Sunday announced a campaign to combat the severe impacts of climate change on the water-scarce country, including by planting five million palms and trees. Oil-rich but ...

The United Nations ranks Iraq as the fifth-most vulnerable country to the effects of climate change. The country has been in a prolonged drought since 2020 and experienced its second-driest season ...

The shifting landscape of Iraq is laying bare just how dangerous and damaging climate change could be globally. Once a verdant and fertile land, even as recently as the 1980s, Iraq becomes more ...

As Aymen al-Rubaye plants mangrove seedlings in the sprawling tidal flats of southern Iraq, the black smoke rising over the skyline behind him shows the ecological damage that he is toiling to undo.

The study proposes a sweeping transformation of Iraq’s water governance system through the implementation of Decision Support ...

Human-made climate change is driving a yearslong extreme drought in Iran, Iraq and Syria, an area that encompasses a region known as the Fertile Crescent and a cradle of civilization, scientists ...

HILLAH,Iraq: Iraq is one of the countries hardest hit by climate change. The impact is being felt acutely by the nation’s farmers, who have seen crop yields diminish in recent years as ...

Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani on Sunday kicked off an initiative to plant 5 million trees and palms across the country in an attempt to alleviate some of the deleterious impacts ...

Back to homepage / Live news Climate-stressed Iraq says will plant 5 million trees. Basra (Iraq) (AFP) – Iraq's prime minister on Sunday announced a campaign to combat the severe impacts of ...