Iraq dust storm sends more than 1,000 to hospital | Climate Crisis News

Iraq is particularly vulnerable to climate change having already witnessed record low rainfall and high temperatures the past few years.

More than 1,000 Iraqis were rushed to hospital with respiratory ailments on Thursday because of a  sandstorm, the seventh to hit the country in the past month.

Residents of six of Iraq’s 18 provinces, including Baghdad and the vast western region of Anbar, awoke again to a thick cloud of dust blanketing the sky.

Authorities in Anbar and Kirkuk provinces, north of the capital, urged people to stay…