Iraq: Rains Like No Other: Iraq Is Tested in Era of Climate Change

May 2, 2019 | Philip Issa, Associated Press
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After years of meager rains and scorching summers, the wettest winter in a generation has revived Iraq's famous rivers and filled its lakes, bringing welcome relief to a country facing severe water challenges in the era of climate change. The rains have restored freshwater marshes of southern Iraq — a region some scholars see as the biblical Garden of Eden — and transformed lands once parched for water into fields of grain and cereal.