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Climate migrants flee Iraq’s parched rural south, but cities offer no refuge

The Washington Post · Louisa Loveluck · last updated

In a world that fears rising temperatures, southern Iraq is the future as farmers and fishermen abandon their livelihoods and head to cramped cities.

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