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Black soot after reported black rain following a strike on fuel tanks, in Tehran, Iran, on March 10, 2026.
Environment

Iran's Black Rain and the Health Shadow of Oil Wars

The environment is a casualty of the Iran war, as "black rain" creates toxic damage that typically endures

A woman from the indigenous Turkana Nilotic community pours sorghum grains into a sack, at a World Food Program food distribution center, at the Kenya Oil village near Lodwar, in Turkana County, Kenya, on February 17, 2026.
Food

How the Iran War Could Drive a Historic Hunger Crisis

Acute hunger threatens 45 million if the conflict extends into June. A roadmap from the Ukraine War could contain the humanitarian fallout