From 13,800 satellite images and #fieldwork in #Iraq and #Kuwait, Jasem, Prof David Thomas & Prof Giles Wiggs found only ~2.5% of the study area caused a large proportion of regional dust emissions - far more concentrated than previously thought: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #geomorphology
The lower Mesopotamia and Kuwait exposed to human pressures and environmental changes and described as one of the main natural sources of dust worldwi…