A view of the right bank (western) of the Tigris river in Iraq's capital Baghdad during a severe dust storm, April 20, 2022. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
A boy puts bread in a paper bag supplied by the Eco-vital environmental group in the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil, Feb. 13, 2022. (Photo: Eco-vital/Facebook)
Young Iraqi volunteers take part in a clean-up campaign on the bank of the Tigris river in the Adhamiyah district of the capital Baghdad, March 11, 2022. (Photo: Sabah Arar/AFP)
A palm orchard degraded by salt and pollution on a bank of the Shatt Al-Arab river in the southern Iraqi port city of Basra, March 21, 2022. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/AFP)
A boy puts bread in a paper bag supplied by the Eco-vital environmental group in the Kurdistan Region's capital Erbil, Feb. 13, 2022. (Photo: Eco-vital/Facebook)
Volunteers plant trees at the start of the campaign to plant Million Oak trees in the Kurdistan Region by 2024 (Photo: Wladimir van Wilgenburg/Kurdistan 24).
Ambassador Mark G. Hambley, the former US Special Representative to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, speaks to Kurdistan 24 in Duhok. (Photo: Kurdistan 24)
Company employees and municipality workers are planting trees in Ainkawa district in Erbil province, Nov. 14, 2021. (Photo: Nawras Abdulla/Kurdistan 24)