Iraq's desertification
Children stand on a boat lying on the dried-up bed of Iraq's receding southern marshes of Chibayish in Dhi Qar province, on July 24, 2022. (Photo: AFP)
This combo shows Habbaniyah (L), al-Chibayish marshes (C), and Samarra (R). (Photo: Kurdistan24)
An aerial view of al-Shafi'iyah district west of Diwaniyah province. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
A man walks on cracked and dried up soil in the Hawiza marsh near the city of al-Amarah in southern Iraq on July 27, 2022. (AFP)
Traffic moves during a sand storm in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on May 1, 2025. (Photo: AFP)
A local youth holds a dried buffalo skull in the parched Chibayish marshes, Dhi Qar province, June 25, 2023. (Photo: AFP)
A person in a wheelchair is helped across a road in low visibility during a massive dust storm in Basra. (Photo: AFP)
A dried palm tree by the shrinking Habbaniyah Lake in Iraq’s Anbar province, Aug. 29, 2024. (Photo: AFP)
