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Fishing boats sit in the Shatt al-Arab waterway in Basra, Iraq, in July 2020
MILLIONS of people in Syria and Iraq are at risk of losing access to water, electricity and food as temperatures rise and water levels fall to record lows, international aid groups warned today.
Having been battered by years of armed conflict, the two neighbouring countries need rapid action to address severe water shortages, the groups said.
The drought is also disrupting electricity supplies as low water levels affect dams, which upsets the functioning of essential infrastructure such as health facilities.
Extreme heat is now one of the defining public health challenges of a warming world, explains Prof IAN WILLIAMS
MAISSON HASSAN highlights how amid bombed-out cities and collapsing hospitals, women-led initiatives are keeping communities alive
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results