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)
Electric fans spraying a mixture of water and air cool down pedestrians amid a scorching heatwave in Baghdad, June 30, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)
Iraqi youth swim in the Shatt Al-Arab river by the port of Maqil amid a heatwave in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, June 29, 2021. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
Gali Sherana's freezing waters are especially welcome as the Kurdistan Region faces a drought this year. (Photo: Wladimir van Wilgenburg, June 26, 2021)
A badger confiscated from a wildlife market in Erbil waits to be released with other trafficked wildlife in Sami Abdul Rahman Park, June 6, 2021. (Photo: Erbil Governorate)
Boats at Qalansiyah on the west of Socotra island, Yemen, named by the UN as a World Heritage site as one of the most biodiversity rich islands, April 15, 2021. (Photo: Peter Martell/AFP)
The UN has warned that the FSO Safer tanker, moored off the coast of Yemen with a million barrels of oil, could cause an environmental catastrophe if not repaired. (Photo: Conflict and Environment Observatory)
A marsh Arab man collects reeds from the wetlands that will later be sold or used for domestic use, in Chibayish, Iraq, May, 1, 2021. (Photo: Anmar Khalil / AP)
Dozens of rotting fish float on the surface of polluted Iraqi marshes in the southern district of Chibayish, April 14, 2021. (Photo: Asaad Niazi / AFP)
