Nabil Aboud News Today

In Iraq, where drought and desertification has cost the country 39% of its agricultural output, once proudly independent farmers are being forced to abandon ancestral farms to find menial work in cities.

Heaven to Hell, Blue Skies to Pain: the Lament of Iraq’s Climate Migrants. In Iraq, where drought and desertification has cost the country 39% of its agricultural output, once proudly independent farmers are being forced to abandon ancestral farms to find menial work in...

Iraq is being ravaged by the soaring temperatures, drought and water scarcity characteristic of climate change. It is but an acute representation of a global problem, but it is also at the heart of what will only become an increasingly visible geopolitical problem: competition and control of na...