A Jacobin investigation reveals how Iraq’s southern marshes, the birthplace of early civilization, face ruin from environmental and political mismanagement. As the water disappears, so too does ...

an Iraqi who used to live in Iraq’s famed marshes says. ”I prefer not to be in the marshes than to see them like that.” Mesopotamia, the ancient cradle of civilization between the Tigris and ...

The Ahwar is made up of seven components: three archaeological sites and four wetland marsh areas in southern Iraq. The archaeological cities of Uruk and Ur and the Tell Eridu archaeological site form ...

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

The draining of the Iraqi marshes by Saddam Hussein in the 1990s was considered at the time a devastating ecological - as well as a humanitarian crisis. The marshes have been occupied for ...

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 ...

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

Al-Mudaffar Fawzi, N., K. Goodwin, B. Mehdi, and M.L. Stevens. 2016. Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) Desiccation on Cultural Knowledge and Livelihood of Marsh ...