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Once know for its fertile soils, rising temperatures, decreasing rainfall, soil degradation, and severe droughts are now transforming Iraq's semi-arid environment into a desert.

From boreal winter 2020 onwards, a large region in West Asia has suffered from exceptionally low rains and elevated temperatures. The resulting 3-year drought has led to severe impacts on agriculture and access to potable water.

This seismic risk profile of Iraq, produced by the Global Earthquake Model (GEM) Foundation summarizes key metrics of seismic risk, allowing stakeholders in risk management to get an overview of the risk in the country.

This study analyzed the seasonal association of weekly averages of meteorological parameters, such as wind speed, temperature, and air pollutant PM2.5, with confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths in Baghdad, Iraq, for the period June 2020 to August 202

This paper addresses a critical issue of urban flash floods in Erbil and presents a new approach to model and identify flood-prone areas using HEC-RAS 2-D hydrodynamic model, where there has been no such work previously.

Most sandstorms are natural events, but they are being exacerbated by climate change, drought, land degradation and unsustainable management of land and water resources.

On July 28, 2022, temperatures in Baghdad reached a blistering 51.8°C (125.2F) – the hottest day Iraq has ever recorded. Such extreme weather events are bound to become more frequent in Iraq and the broader Middle East.

Collecting experiences of humanitarian-development-peace nexus approaches. Case studies in DRC, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda, Sahel, Palestine, Afghanistan, Colombia and Iraq.