Updated Iraq survey affirms earlier mortality estimates
... The estimates were derived from a nationwide household survey of 1,849 households throughout Iraq conducted between May...Damaged Iraq marshes show renewed signs of life
The marshes of southern Iraq, devastated in recent decades by Saddam Hussein's regime, are showing a "remarkable" recovery, according to an ecological survey team led by scientists at Duke University and the University of Basrah....... In their latest and most thorough evaluation of the marshes -- claimed in some quarters to be the site of the biblical Garden of Eden -- the researchers found that...Iraq's marshes show progress toward recovery
Reflooding of Iraq's destroyed Mesopotamian marshes since 2003 has resulted in a "remarkable rate of reestablishment" of native invertebrates, plants, fish, and birds, according to an article in the June issue of BioScience. Curtis J. Richardson of Duke University and Najah A. Hussain of the University of Basrah, writing about fieldwork conducted over the past two years in four large marshes in s...Scientists find both damage and promise for renewal in devastated Iraqi marshlands
DURHAM, N.C. -- In the first analysis of the ecology of the storied Iraqi Mesopotamian marshes after the toppling of the regime of Saddam Hussein, scientists have found many problems, but also the promise of partial revitalization, should those problems be solved. ......During his 24-year reign, Saddam decreed the extensive draining of the original 15,000-square-kilometer wetlands, in part to pu...Restoration efforts in Iraq's degraded marshes to be described in D.C. news briefing and symposium
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Duke University Wetland Center director Curtis Richardson has made two post-invasion trips to Iraq and also conducted a training session in Jordan for Iraqi scientists as part of initial efforts to restore the heavily degraded Mesopotamian marshes, which some scholars consider the site of the Biblical Garden of Eden....... Richardson and three other researchers will hold a new...Iraqi civilian deaths increase dramatically after invasion
Civilian deaths have risen dramatically in Iraq since the country was invaded in March 2003, according to a survey conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Columbia University School of Nursing and Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. The researchers found that the majority of deaths were attributed to violence, which were primarily the result of milita...Australian expertise helps resurrect Iraq's ancient marshlands
Australian expertise has played a major role in the new international effort to assess and remediate Iraq's once magnificent Mesopotamian marshlands, which were drained and burned under Saddam Hussein's regime in one of the world's worst environmental tragedies....... With the fall of the regime, glimmers of hope are emerging after scientists recently entered the marshes for the first time in 20...