by Contributed | Sep 20, 2022 | Blog
By Aymen HENNA It was the river that is said to have watered the biblical Garden of Eden and helped give birth to civilisation itself. But today the Tigris is dying. Human activity and climate change have choked its once mighty flow through Iraq, where — with...
by Contributed | Sep 19, 2022 | Blog
Ruy Llera Blanes, University of Gothenburg Three years after a severe drought in southwestern Angola, people in the area continue to suffer. Hunger remains pervasive and they are still losing livestock. In a recent report we looked at fallout from the extreme drought...
by Contributed | Aug 24, 2022 | Blog
By Noel CELIS China’s autumn harvest is under “severe threat” from high temperatures and drought, authorities have warned, urging action to protect crops in the face of the country’s hottest summer on record. The world’s second-largest...
by Contributed | Aug 17, 2022 | Blog
By Tony Gamal-Gabriel To feed and cool his buffaloes, Hashem Gassed must cross 10 kilometres (six miles) of sunburnt land in southern Iraq, where drought is devastating swathes of the mythical Mesopotamian Marshes. The reputed home of the biblical Garden of Eden,...
by Contributed | Aug 12, 2022 | Blog
By Kaouthar Oudrhiri Mohamed gave up farming because of successive droughts that have hit his previously fertile but isolated village in Morocco and because he just couldn’t bear it any longer. “To see villagers rush to public fountains in the morning or...
