Environment

Heavy rainfall in Erbil. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Heavy rainfall expected in Kurdistan Region

Bawa Shaswar dam in northern Kifri. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Heavy rainfall fills a dam in drought-stricken Garmiyan

People shop at a flea market in Baghdad, March 10, 2023. (Photo: Murtaja Lateef/AFP)

Iraq

Iraq fashionistas champion climate-friendly vintage wear

Erbil governor and volunteers picking up litters at a picnic area in eastern Erbil province, March 18, 2023. (Photo: Erbil Governorate)

Kurdistan

Erbil launches clean-up campaign ahead of Newroz picnicking

Water buffalo herders in the marshes of Chibayish feed their animals after back to back drought severely reduced available food stocks in Dhi Qar province, Iraq, on Nov. 19, 2022. (Photo: Anmar Khalil/ AP)

Iraq

Iraqi PM promises action to tackle crippling climate change

The Green Kids charity on Sunday organized a book launch for two books (Photo: Wladimir van Wilgenburg/Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Charity organization aims to educate next generation on climate change

Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani is pictured during a weekly ministerial meeting in Erbil. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani allocates nearly $2 million to combat drought in Erbil province

A vehicle's windshield has reportedly been shattered by the 4.3-magnatitude earthquake in Erbil's western town of Khabat, Feb. 25. 2023. (Photo: Shayma Bayiz/Kurdistan 24

Kurdistan

Kurdistan Region rocked by a 4.3-magnitude earthquake

An aerial view of marshes of Chibayish during an environmental clean up campaign sponsored by the French embassy with local civil society organisations in the southern Iraqi Dhi Qar province, May 19, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)

Iraq

After drought, winter rains revive Iraq's famed marshlands

A picture shows the damage after an earthquake struck the city of Khoy in Iran's West Azerbaijan province on January 29, 2023. (Photo: AFP)

Iran

Earthquake kills three, injures 800 in northwest Iran

A two-megawatt (MW) solar farm at the University of Duhok (Photo: Alina L. Romanowsk/Twitter)

Kurdistan

Two-megawatt solar farm opens at Duhok University

The solar panels set up at Duhok's newly inaugurated park, Dec. 21, 2022. (Photo: Duhok governorate)

Kurdistan

Duhok governorate ‘on very good path’ towards carbon emission reduction, says UNDP

A boy walks on a boat left lying on the dried-up bed of a section of Iraq's receding southern marshes of Chibayish in Dhi Qar province, June 28, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)

Iraq

Climate-stressed Iraq must pursue 'green growth': World Bank

A wave of rainfall hit the Kurdistan Region today (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

Global Meteorology expects rainfall increase in Kurdistan Region: KRG

An aerial view of Erbil International Airport. (Photo: EIA)

Iraq

Erbil, Baghdad airports halt flights due to ‘weather conditions’

Stephan Schmitt Degenhardt, the head of UNDP Erbil office, speaking to Kurdistan 24 in Erbil, Nov. 27, 2022. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

1,800 tons of carbon footprint cut by UNDP renewable project in Erbil, says official