Environment

Sarwa Rasul, Director General of the Coordination and Crisis Center at the Ministry of Interior. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

PM Masrour Barzani urges proactive measures to tackle impacts of climate change

Today's Dohuk floods, March 19, 2024. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Fatalities reported as floods sweep Duhok, KRG urges residents to stay indoors

The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Masrour Barzani. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani directs measures to safeguard citizens amid heavy rainfall in Erbil

The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region (KRG) Masrour Barzani. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani urges immediate action to protect lives amid Duhok flooding

A drone view of the Manicore river, deep inside the Amazonia rainforest, Amazonas state, Brazil, on June 7, 2022. (Photo: AFP)

World

Brazil Amazon deforestation lowest in Jan-Feb period since 2018

Possibility of heavy rains expected in the Kurdistan Region. (Photo designed by Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

KRG issues warning for heavy rains, potential flooding

The photo shows billowing smoke and flowing lava pouring out of a new fissure on the outskirts of the evacuated town of Grindavik, western Iceland.(Photo: HANDOUT/Icelandic Coast Guard/AFP)

World

Volcano erupts again on Iceland peninsula: Met office

This undated photo released Sunday, March 3, 2024, by the U.S. military's Central Command shows the Belize-flagged vessel Rubymar sinking in the Red Sea. (U.S. military's Central Command via AP)

World

A ship earlier hit by Yemen's Houthi rebels sinks in the Red Sea, the first vessel lost in conflict

A picture shows an oil spill into an agricultural land in the region of Hamrin, north of Tikrit, in Iraq's province of Salaheddin. (Photo: AFP/ABDEL KHALEQ AL-SAMARRAI)

Iraq

Oil spills pile on pressure for Iraq's farmers

Rubymar, a Belize-flagged, British-registered and Lebanese-operated cargo ship carrying combustible fertilizer in the Red Sea. (Photo: AFP/US CENTCOM)

World

US warns of environmental disaster from cargo ship hit by Huthi rebels

Iraq

Rampant water pollution threatens Iraq's shrinking rivers

World

UN chief warns climate chaos and food crises threaten global peace: 'Empty bellies fuel unrest'

Flash flooding in Erbil, Dec. 17, 2021. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Erbil prepares for likely flash floods

A resident takes a video of the water levels of a river on the outskirts of Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan Region, Dec. 17, 2021. (Photo: AFP)

Kurdistan

Erbil to implement new projects to prevent flash floods

Members of the Mergasor environmental protection forces and locals take part in planting eight thousand oak trees, Dec. 30, 2023. (Photo: Tayfur Mohammed/Kurdisatn24)

Kurdistan

8,000 oak trees to be planted in Barzan

Iraqi children cross a flooded street in the Iraqi capital Baghdad after heavy rains, Dec. 24, 2022. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)

Iraq

A few Iraqi provinces suspend schools amid heavy rain forecast