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In Iraq, climate change has led to environmental impacts such as increasing temperatures, decreasing precipitation, land degradation, and water scarcity. [2] Climate change poses numerous risks to human health, livelihoods, political stability, and the sustainable development of the nation. [2]
Environmental issues in Iraq are greatly attributed to the government, politics, and region. Iraq is the fifth most vulnerable country to the effects of climate change, [1] subject to oil spills, pollution, land degradation, and poor management of upstream water sources. [2]
Climate change has negatively impacted Iraq's population through loss of economic opportunity, food insecurity, water scarcity, and displacement. Water-related challenges are at the forefront of Iraq's environmental problems. Models predict that precipitation will decrease by 9% and mean annual temperatures will increase by 2°C by 2050. [91]
The drought conditions that have roiled Syria, Iraq and Iran over the past three years would not have happened without climate change, a new analysis suggests.
A three-year drought that has left millions of people in Syria, Iraq and Iran with little water wouldn’t have happened without human-caused climate change, a new study found. The west Asian ...
Iraq's 2020-2021 rainfall season was the second driest in 40 years, according to the United Nations, causing the salinity of the wetlands to rise to dangerous levels.
[citation needed] Iraq is highly vulnerable to climate change. [81] The country is subject to rising temperatures and reduced rainfall, and suffers from increasing water scarcity for a human population that rose tenfold between 1890 and 2010 and continues to rise. [82] [83]
Ancient humans are believed to have first begun land cultivation in Iraq. Their modern-day counterparts are giving it up. Iraq's Great Thirst: Farmers quit as climate change and politics dry up a ...