TEHRAN—Lake Urmia is currently in better condition in terms of level and volume of water compared to last year, an official ...

Straddling the misleadingly named provinces of East and West Azerbaijan in Iran, Lake Urmia has been an icon of Middle ...

Lake Urmia was Iran's main domestic tourism resort before it began shrinking in 1995 due to extreme drought, agriculture and dam building. These days, hotels and boats lie abandoned, with no water ...

Documenting the environmental changes happening in Lake Urmia in Iran, the series is a reminder of the ongoing impact our environmental misunderstandings have in every corner of the world. “Lake Urmia ...

Africa’s Lake Chad is a sliver of its former self. Iran’s Lake Urmia has shrunk by 80 percent in 30 years. What remain are the carcasses of ships settled into the silt. Similar scenarios are ...

Lake Urmia and the deserts of Mesopotamia, were consistently oppressed by Persians, Arabs, Mongols, Ottoman Turks and Kurds. Now this long-suffering people have refuged on the boundaries of Iraq, Iran ...

The greatest concentration of these new arrivals settled around Clark and Huron. Most of these immigrants came from villages in northwestern Iran ( Lake Urmia) and southeastern Turkey (Hakkari ...

Changes in water availability are reflected in the country’s physical geography. Lake Urmia, once the largest salt lake in the Middle East, has shrunk to 5 percent of its previous size. Other ...

The Aral Sea in Central Asia and Lake Urmia in Iran have nearly disappeared as a result of upstream water use. Groundwater reserves are being depleted at worrying rates as well, on all continents.

The Japanese official said the restoration of Lake Urmia is one of the issues that requires enhancing ties. In reference to the Anzali wetland project, Tsukada said Japan is ready to assess the ...

Shrinking Lake Urmia: causes, future projection, and implications Seyed-Mohammad Hosseini-Moghari, Qiuhong Tang, Guoyong Leng and Ximeng Xu Qiuhong Tang is a Professor at the Institute of Geographic ...

With all of the noteworthy landmarks and landscapes the U.S. has to offer, including its world-famous beaches, mountains and metropolises, the country's variety of lake destinations can sometimes ...