The BBC reports that Iraq's marshlands have been rapidly improving since the toppling of Saddam Hussein. As I discussed a few years back, Iraqq's dictator sought to eradicate the Marsh Arabs by destroying the ecosystems upon which they depended. At the time, the Hussein government was likely the "only extant regime that deliberately use[d] environmental destruction, as such, as a tool of government policy." Now that Hussein is gone, it's nice to see that Iraq's environment is recovering.