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The Iraqi Ministry of Environment identified key sulphur pollution sources: heavy fuel power plants, illegal smelting, and unregulated waste burning.
Years of drought have shrunken the majestic Lake Habbaniyah, keeping away the holidaymakers who once flocked there during summer.
Iraqi PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in conference in Basra that the government is working on a wider plan for climate change in the country, which will include promoting renewable energy, new irrigation, water treatment projects, among others.
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Lebanon and Iraq have agreed to cooperate with Israel on climate change issues at COP27 despite there being no diplomatic relations and a continuing state of hostility.
A British man is travelling all the way to COP27 in Egypt, which starts next month, without flying - taking trains, buses, shared taxis and bikes across Europe and the Middle East.
Four bodies were pulled out of the rubble of a landslide next to a Shia shrine in the central Iraqi province of Karbala
An Iraqi agriculture ministry official said around 15 percent of land, or around 10,400 square miles, has been desertified, while 55 percent is "threatened" with this fate.
Iraq's health ministry recorded the first death and said thousands have been hospitalised by the country's wave of dust storm
An Iraqi lake once famed for its beauty and biodiversity has completely dried up because of climate change and excessive drainage for agricultural use, officials and activists have said.
A dust storm hit Iraq on Wednesday, the third such climate event in two weeks, resulting in a temporary grounding of flights at Baghdad and Najaf airports.