Climate
Climate, Iraqi Street
WET, WARM AND WANTED: How water buffalo herding became an Iraqi Kurdish success story
By Salam Hanadni in Said Sadiq // On the Shahrizor plains, near the city of Said Sadiq in northern Iraq, four families farm around 500 water buffaloes — no mean feat in a place where summer temperatures regularly hit 47 degrees Celsius. Farming water buffalo is a very specific type of agriculture and requires a…
Climate, Iraqi Street
SWINISH BEHAVIOUR: How to deal with ‘rogue gangs’ of Iraqi marsh pigs terrorizing farmers?
By Alaa Koli // In Iraq's southern marshes, farmers are confronting a growing challenge that is changing daily life and agriculture: Wild pigs. There has been an increase in wild pig populations and, along with that, their potentially destructive behaviour. What was once a manageable animal in the wetlands has become a nightly threat to…
Climate, Opinion
MOURNING THE SHADOWS: A writer’s lament for the lost trees of a burning city
By Nagham Makki in Basra // I walk along the Shatt al‑Arab corniche to clear my mind and to take a few photos for one of the reports I’m working on. I search for a corner that might shield me from the unbearable summer sun but all I find are scattered palm trees planted along…
Climate, Iraqi Street
‘WE CAN’T BREATHE’: How the Iran war is poisoning Iraqi Kurdistan’s air
By Bwar Qadir in Sulaymaniyah // In one of the quiet alleys of the Bakhtiari neighborhood in the Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaymaniyah, Rankin Mahmoud, 61, complains that she must once again deal with thick black smoke and polluted air. The pollution is due to the many large diesel-powered generators that provide electricity to private…
