Bleak future

Google Earth helping Iraqis survive violence in Baghdad

Mute about truth

USA denies depleted uranium use

In short

An empire withers away

Recent findings suggest the Akkadian empire, which once flourished on the banks of the Euphrates, collapsed because of a sudden dearth of water.

Climate change made the multi-year drought 25 times more likely in Syria and Iraq, 16 times in Iran: Analysis

If the world warms 2°C above the preindustrial era, similar droughts are predicted to strike about twice as often as they do now

Fighting shy

Pentagon evades green laws

Letter to Iraq

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WAR CRIMES

Build-up blues

Iraq syndrome

Multiple vaccinations torment US soldiers after the Iraq war

The revenge of the boar

The wild pig can be a danger to humans, as some very special ones in northern Iraq found recently

Deadly price

A sick media

The US response to Lancet study on Iraq

Iraq eliminates trachoma as a public health problem 

Becomes 50th country globally to eliminate at least one neglected tropical disease   

Explaining the chemistry of an oil spill

Oil tanker spills compound the danger to the marine food chain by crude released into the sea in normal operations and seepage from the earth. …

A dangerous club

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Healthcare takes biggest hit as conflict intensifies in Iraq

Polio and other communicable diseases pose threat

Draining causes exodus

Military manoeuvre

How microbes may help clean up oil spills in Iraq

The soil bacteria is fed with nutrients from manure and bulking agents like wood chips and water, to thrive in and then break down petroleum

Southern trade losses offset gains in capital

Financial transfer estimates that generously portray Northern largesse are deceptive for they camouflage huge payments triggered by the Gulf war.

Cosmic collision

Discovery of a crater sheds new light on the end of many Middle East civilisations

Mysterious deaths

Bush reacts to Lancet study