After the Wars in Iraq, ‘Everything Living is Dying’

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By Katelyn WeisbrodDec 29, 2021, 5:00 am257 pts
Decades of war, poverty and fossil fuel extraction have devastated the country’s environment and its people. By Lynzy Billing It’s 6 p.m. and the pink-tinged skies turn black above Agolan, a village on the outskirts of Erbil in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq. Thick plumes of smoke have begun to…

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