In between rows of tomato vines and potato plants sprouting out of the desperately water deprived fields of southern Jordan, a young girl dreams of school while harvesting crops alongside her mother.

A severe drought, worsened by a warming climate, drove Syrian farmers to abandon their crops and flock to cities, helping trigger a civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people ...

By Manuela Andreoni Human-made climate change is driving a yearslong extreme drought in Iran, Iraq and Syria, an area that encompasses a region known as the Fertile Crescent and a cradle of ...

"Climate change isn't easy anyway but it is doubly not easy in a place like Syria with high inflation, no power, no good quality inputs and some residual security issues that are still playing up ...

Syria's embattled President Bashar Assad has received late Monday, May 15, 2023 an invitation to attend the upcoming COP28 climate talks in Dubai later this year, even as the yearslong war in his ...

Many farmers saw a decline in crop production. Al-Akhras and others like him say that decades of conflict in Syria and climate change are to blame. And we can see the evidence all around the country.

Sitting in his front sittingroom, surrounded by embroidery, painted plates and ceramics decorated with pink Damask roses, Amin Hamza al-Bettar reflects on the harvest season, which has just ...

Climate change, a faltering economy and residual security issues have decimated Syria's 2022 grain crop, leaving the majority of its farmers in a precarious position, the United Nations Food and ...