Rising salinity and heat push Basra to grow date palms in the lab

By Mohammed Atti and Imad Creidi BASRA, Iraq, Jan 30 (Reuters) - In greenhouses and sterile laboratories west of Basra, Iraqi ...
Al-Monitor

Bees, once buzzing in honey-producing Basra, hit by Iraq's water crisis

BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) -Bees once thrived among the date palms along the Shatt al-Arab, where Iraq's mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet, but drought has shrivelled the green trees and life in the ...
Reuters

Iraq's water crisis drying up fish farming in Basra

BASRA, Iraq, July 13 (Reuters) - Iraq is in the grip of a severe water shortage which has left crop growers and food producers such as Iraqi fish farmer Qasem Karam facing the loss of their ...