Livelihoods ruined and villages deserted due to climate change - in pictures

Iraq and Syria's once fertile lands now jeopardised by desertification

The dried up bed of the Shatt al Mashkhab river, in Najaf city, Iraq. 'Desertification now threatens almost 40 per cent of the area of our country — a country that was once one of the most fertile and productive in the region,' President Abdul Latif Rashid told Cop27 in Egypt last week. All photos: Reuters

The dried up bed of the Shatt al Mashkhab river, in Najaf city, Iraq. 'Desertification now threatens almost 40 per cent of the area of our country — a country that was once one of the most fertile and productive in the region,' President Abdul Latif Rashid told Cop27 in Egypt last week. All photos: Reuters

Nov 15, 2022

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