BioScience
May 31 2006, Irani

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Mesopotamian marshes of Iraq were devastated by the Hussein regime’s campaign to ditch, dike, drain, and burn them. Since 2003, they are left destroyed. Nature, took its own heed to restore it. It got reflooded, and...

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