Tag: Drought
World
New study: climate change ‘at least 20-fold’ increased chance of droughts
In a recent study, a team of researchers from around the world concluded that anthropogenic climate change has "at least 20 times increased the...
Economy
Morocco central bank raises interest rates to fight inflation
Morocco's central bank has decided, according to Agence France-Presse, to raise interest rates to 2 percent to match record inflation expected to reach 6.3...
Economy
Wildfires again threaten wheat crops in Iraq
As the harvest season approached, it was announced that about 50 dunams of wheat fields had been burned in the village of Omar ibn...