Iraq: Mosul Fires Stop Burning, but Fuel a New Awareness

May 10, 2017 | UNEP
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After seven months of spurting flames and thick black smoke, the last oil well fire in the Mosul conflict in Iraq has been put out. What now, and what are the lessons we can learn from this period about the relationship among the conflict, environment and health that could improve the response to humanitarian emergencies in war?