Iraqi villager Omar Ziad gazes at the cracked and barren earth where his fish farm once stood, lost to water conservation efforts during a devastating four-year drought. As the alarming water crisis ...

"There is no fruition and no result from this work. Because as you see, everything is now full of salt because of water scarcity and its pollution. These ponds cost us a lot of time, money and efforts ...

Poisoned water, illegal dams and even armed clashes: these days, fishing for precious barbels in Iraq’s majestic river marshes involves navigating precarious waters. For centuries, civilisations in ...

A massive fish die-off in Iraq has left farmers worried A man holds dead fish from a tank at his farm in southern Iraq Fish farmers clean tanks of dead fish in southern Iraq Following the fish die-off ...

This aerial view shows a man inspecting dead fish during a mass die-off at the Ibn Najm marsh — Qassem al-KAABI Iraqi authorities on Monday launched a probe into a mass die-off of fish in the southern ...

A man holds up a skeleton of a fish in a dried out marsh in Chibayish, Iraq – Copyright AFP Asaad NIAZI Iraqi villager Omar Ziad gazes at the cracked and barren ...

On the banks of Iraq's Tigris River, Haidar Kazem mourned 300 tonnes of the fish he had carefully raised in ponds wiped out by a flood of polluted water. Water supplies in Iraq, the eastern half of ...

Poisoned water, illegal dams and even armed clashes: these days, fishing for precious barbels in Iraq's majestic river marshes involves navigating precarious waters. For centuries, civilisations in ...

Iraqi authorities on Monday launched a probe into a mass die-off of fish in the southern marshlands, the latest in a string of such events in recent years. One possible cause for the localized die-off ...