The starkly different realities are playing out along the length of the Tigris-Euphrates river basin, one of the world’s most vulnerable watersheds. River flows have fallen by 40% in the last ...

Seasonal streams course with water, creating a network of tributaries that flow into the historic Tigris and Euphrates rivers ... the habitats of the fish and other wildlife that need the rivers ...

He lives at Ras al-Bisha where the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates river, the Shatt al-Arab ... pushes out the most prized freshwater species which are replaced by ocean fish. "In the summer, ...

Iraq’s ancient Mesopotamian marshlands are in danger of drying due to a sharp fall in water levels in the Euphrates and Tigris rivers during the country’s worst heatwave in four decades, the ...

Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. As ...

A studied reader will know the troubles that the Tigris-Euphrates Basin faces ... several encounters with “electro-fishermen” (i.e., those who use generators to fish, killing anything else under the ...

As a child, he would paddle in a traditional wooden boat to school, where birds, fish, and snakes wandered through his reed-hut classroom during the flood season. But the Tigris and Euphrates ...

This is more evident than in the Tigris-Euphrates river system, where Turkey’s control over the headwaters has granted it unprecedented geopolitical influence over downstream nations ...

DHI QAR, Iraq, April 30 (Reuters) - Iraq’s buffalo population has more than halved in a decade as the country's two main rivers, the Tigris and Euphrates, suffer severe droughts that endanger ...

He lives at Ras al-Bisha where the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers ... which are replaced by ocean fish. “In the summer, we have salt water,” said Haddad.

Many disputes have occurred between Ankara and Baghdad over the division of the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. As is known, the two rivers originate in Turkey and flow for a long distance ...