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...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...