Iran's Lake Urmia has shriveled because of water mismanagement. Photographer Maximilian Mann traveled to northwest Iran to document life in the region. Here, a man walks in what used to be a river ...

This is a sad story but one with a little bit of hope in the end. Like the famous Aral Sea in central Asia and the Great Salt Lake in Utah, the expanse of Iran’s Lake Urmia has been drying up ...

This picture taken on Dec. 8, 2018, shows a general view of Iran's salt lake of Urmia in the country's northwest, which had been shrinking in one of the worst ecological disasters of the past ...

Iran's Lake Urmia will dry out completely if rescue efforts are not prioritised over the needs of farmers in the drought gripping the region, an environment official said Tuesday.The warning comes ...

Although U.S.-Iran relations have been strained for decades, the countries have permitted scientific exchanges to brainstorm on how to replenish the diminishing waters of Lake Urmia and Utah’s ...

FILE - Journalists visit the shrinking salt lake of Urmia, whose receding shoreline is considered one of the worst ecological disasters of the past 25 years, in northwestern Iran, Dec. 8, 2018.

Iranian police have arrested several people for disturbing security after they protested the drying up of a lake once regarded as the Middle East's largest, official media said Sunday.Lake Urmia, in ...

Iranian police have arrested at least 16 people after they protested over the drying up of Lake Urmia in northwest Iran on July 16. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...

Lake Urmia, in the mountains of northwest Iran, began shrinking in 1995 due to a combination of prolonged drought, and the extraction of water for farming and dams, according to the UN Environment ...

TABNAK, Jan 29: A local subsidiary of Iran’s Energy Ministry in West Azerbaijan province, where Lake Urmia is located, said that the amount of water in the lake had increased by 0.19 billion cubic ...

Persian leopard spotted in Lake Urmia island TEHRAN, Apr. 11 (MNA) – Trap cameras have spotted a Persian leopard at Ashk Island in the Lake Urmia, West Azarbaijan province. According to Omid Yusefi, ...

Iran's Lake Urmia was once the second-largest saltwater lake in the world, covering more than 2,000 square miles at its deepest in the 1990s. In the past two decades, the lake has dried out ...