Environment

A view of a dried up body of a dead fish on drying earth in the Chibayesh marshland in Iraq's southern Ahwar area, June 20, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)

Iraq

Over 50 percent of Iraq’s land threatened by desertification

Vehicles drive along a road during a severe dust storm in Iraq's capital Baghdad on May 1, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)

Kurdistan

New dust storm expected to hit Iraq Friday

The Kurdistan Region's Warte (Photo: Goran Sabah Ghafour)

Kurdistan

Warte, the most famous natural attraction in the Kurdistan Region

Rhim gazelles graze at the Sawa wildlife reserve in the desert of Samawa in Iraq's southern province of al-Muthanna, June 8, 2022 (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)

Iraq

Iraqi gazelles facing extinction due to effects of climate change: FAO

Aldiers and Afghan Red Crescent Society officials near a helicopter at an earthquake hit area in Afghanistan's Gayan district, Paktika province, June 22, 2022. (Photo: AFP/ Bakhtar News Agency)

Middle East

At least 920 killed in Afghanistan earthquake

A man carries a block of ice at his stall in Iraq's southern city of Basra, June 11, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)

Iraq

For Iraqis a sweltering summer of 'hell' has begun

A man walks along a road during a sand storm in Iraq's southern port city of Basra, March 4, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)

Iraq

New dust storm to pass through Iraq this week

Rhim gazelles died of malnutrition and lack of care at the facility in Iraq's southern province of al-Muthanna, May 27, 2022. (Photo: Sawa Reserve/AFP)

Iraq

In a parched land, Iraqi gazelles dying of hunger

Kani Bast (“frozen waterfall”) is the highest waterfall in the Kurdistan Region (Photo: Azad Ali)

Kurdistan

Kani Bast: The highest waterfall in the Kurdistan Region

Water borehole equipment drilling a well in Erbil's Badawa neighborhood, August 14, 2021 (Photo: Rebaz Siyan/Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

Nearly 300 groundwater wells dried up in Erbil province in 2022: Water authority

An Iraqi cleaner works to clean the street during a severe dust storm in the Iraqi capital Baghdad May 1, 2022 (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)

Kurdistan

New dust storm expected to hit Iraq: Weather authority

Bokodyan Pond on the Sakran Mountain in Erbil's Choman district (Photo: Goran Sabah Ghafour)

Kurdistan

Bekodyan, the highest tourist attraction in the Kurdistan Region

The Kurdistan Region’s ‘Spring of Snakes’, known locally as Kani Maran, on the Soran-Erbil Highway (Photo: Goran Sabah Ghafour)

Kurdistan

‘Spring of Snakes’ is a natural tourist wonder in the Kurdistan Region

A scenic view of mountainous terrain in the Kurdistan Region's Barzan. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)

Kurdistan

PM Barzani underscores importance of protecting environment on World Environment Day

Kurdistan Region's Council of Ministers. (Photo: KRG)

Kurdistan

KRG Council of Ministers meeting to discuss bill on protecting the environment

An aerial view shows a pond remaining at the dried-up Sawa Lake in Iraq's southern province of al-Muthanna, April 19, 2022. (Photo: Asaad Niazi/AFP)

Kurdistan

Iraqi national security agency discusses ‘environmental catastrophe’ facing country