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Iraq’s Drought: A Climate Warning From The Fertile Crescent
May 7th, 2025
May 7th, 2025
Courtesy of the New York Times, a podcast on Iraq’s water crisis and what it means for the world:
As the Middle East braces for another year of extreme heat, climate change is turning the soil to dust in the landscape that has long been known as the fertile crescent — and water has become a new source of conflict.
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