October 17, 2003

Reviving Eden

By DANIEL DEL CASTILLO

Researchers try to devise a plan for restoring Iraq's damaged marshlands

Anatomy of an EcocideBy DANIEL DEL CASTILLO

Motor north from here on the Euphrates River, and it is possible to go back in time. The dust and diesel fumes of the city give way to lush, open marshes. Men pole flat-bottomed boats, heaped with reeds and grasses to feed their water buffaloes. Orange-billed ducks nest in nearby palm groves. Life proceeds much as it has for the past 5,000 years, since the days of

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