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Mesopotamia's 'Fertile Crescent' may disappear this century.
Asian News International
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July 28, 2009
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London, July 28 (ANI): Climate modellers are warning that the Fertile Crescent, a region in the Near East, incorporating the Levant and Mesopotamia, may disappear in this century, with the current drought likely to become permanent.
According to a report in New Scientist, the death knell for the Fertile Crescent has been rung as Turkish dams reduce the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to a trickle, farmers abandon their desiccated fields across Iraq and Syria, and efforts to revive the Mesopotamian marshes appear to be abandoned.
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