8+ hour, 35+ min ago  (656+ words) On the banks of Iraq's Tigris River, Haidar Kazem mourned 300 tonnes of the fish he had carefully raised in ponds wiped out by a flood of polluted water. Water supplies in Iraq, the eastern half of what is known as…...

6+ mon, 2+ day ago  (530+ words) Nearly 80 percent of the world's poorest, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate hazards exacerbated by global warming, bearing a "double and deeply unequal burden," the United Nations warned Friday. "No one is immune to the increasingly frequent…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (377+ words) Turkey said on Wednesday it was shutting down all livestock markets to control the spread of a highly contagious strain of foot-and-mouth disease that is hitting the country's agricultural sector hard. The government stressed that the measures would not impact…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago  (629+ words) By Emilie Madi and Maya Gebeily RIYAK, Lebanon (Reuters) -Elias Maalouf crouched to examine a shrivelling grapevine in his ancestral vineyard in the sun-kissed plains of eastern Lebanon. Last year, Israeli air strikes kept him from picking most of the…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (656+ words) On the drought-stricken plains of Morocco's Chtouka region, cherry tomato farms stretch as far as the eye can see, clinging to life through a single, environmentally contentious lifeline: desalination. "We wouldn't be here without it," said Abir Lemseffer, who manages…...