When Nature Heals

As in Afgahnistan, so in Iraq. Once Saddam drained the great marshes of Mesopotamia, with the intention of displacing and marginalising the Marsh Arabs. Now, after so much war and chaos, the marshes, along with the rest of Iraq, are slowly limping back ...
(both pictures are true-colour satellite images taken by NASA's Terra satellite. The first picture dates from 2000, the second from 2008.)