BAGHDAD -- A wetland in southeast Iraq, thought to be the biblical Garden of Eden and almost completely drained during Saddam Hussein's rule, has become a UNESCO world heritage site, Iraqi authorities ...

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Heavy rainfall in recent weeks has led to a notable rise in water levels in Iraq’s southern ...

living in the narrow waterways of the Chebayesh Marshes in the country’s South. They say their entire way of life depends on water. But these waters are threatened by climate change, pollution and ...

A man holds up a skeleton of a fish in a dried out marsh in Chibayish, Iraq - Copyright AFP Asaad NIAZI A man holds up a skeleton of a fish in a dried out marsh in ...

STORY: This is Iraq’s historic marshlands. The marshes are thought to be the inspiration for the biblical Garden of Eden, and were named a UNESCO world heritage site in 2016. Marsh Arabs have called ...

Its the largest and most ambitious habitat recreation project ever known to bring back to life one of the worlds greatest marshlands And its happening in Iraq Considered to be the original Garden of ...

MARSHES, Iraq (Reuters) - Miles of reed stalks and baked mud are all that can be seen of much of Iraq's ancient marshes this year, as a lack of water threatens to turn one of the world's most ...

Some 14,000 buffaloes have perished in southern Iraq over the past four years of drought, which has hit the mythical Mesopotamian marshes listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, according to local ...

STORY: Iraq’s southern marshes are drying up. They’re receding and turning brackish following multiple years of drought. Fish are disappearing. And an entire way of life going back centuries is under ...

An expedition by Duke University wetlands expert Curtis Richardson to evaluate damage to Iraq's storied Mesopotamian Marshlands revealed an environmental disaster of vast proportions. However, he ...

Duke University's Curtis J. Richardson, a wetlands expert, was part of the first scientific team to visit the Iraqi Mesopotamian marshes after Saddam Hussein's fall in 2003. Lying between the Tigris ...

A man holds up a skeleton of a fish in a dried out marsh in Chibayish, Iraq — Asaad NIAZI Mohammed Hamid Nour is only 23, but he is already nostalgic for how Iraq's Mesopotamian marshes once were ...