Environment
An Iraqi youth rides his bicycle near a flare stack in the Rumaila oil field near Iraq's southern port city of Basra on May 5, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
A striking contrast in the same location in Raparin within just one year. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
An aerial view of Sami Abdulrahman Park in Erbil city. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Diyala’s Dying Orchards: Khanaqin’s lush groves wither under climate stress, water scarcity, and state neglect. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
A man sits next to fish floating during a mass die-off of fish at the Ibn Najm marsh, about 25 kilometers northeast of Najaf in central Iraq on June 1, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
An Erbil Municipality employee holding a flower before he plants it, amid of a flower planting campaign in Erbil, June 2, 2025. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Men walk along a dried up stream in Mishkhab, in Iraq's Najaf province on May 24, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
Iraqis endure extreme summer heat. (Photo: IINA)
An Iraqi environmentalist measures water in Iraq’s drying Hawizeh Marshes, near Iran’s border, on April 25, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
A view of Xurmal district, Halabja Province. (Photo: Binar Yousf/Khurmal)
A photo showcases the severe levels of drought in southern Iraq. (Graphics: Kurdistan24)
Sandstorm in Basra city. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Villager of Thi Qar walk through a dried-up irrigation canal in southern Iraq, where prolonged drought has devastated local agriculture and forced thousands of families to abandon their villages. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
Sandstorm blankets Erbil, May 5, 2025. (Photo: Kurdsitan24)
Traffic moves during a sand storm in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on May 1, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
A June 23, 2023 aerial photo shows the dried-up marshes of Chibayish in Iraq’s Dhi Qar province. (Photo: AFP)
