Iraq: ‘There’s No Rain’: Climate Change Threatens Iraq’s Bedouins

Apr 28, 2021 | Simona Foltyn, Al Jazeera
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During a two-day trip across Muthanna’s deserts, nomadic herders painted a grim picture of an increasingly uninhabitable environment, where temperature increases and erratic rains have eroded the sustenance of animals and humans alike. Studies suggest that temperatures in Iraq will increase two to seven times faster compared to the global rise, while the United Nations projects that temperatures in Iraq will climb by two degrees and that rainfall will decline by nine percent in the coming three decades.