Lake Urmia (LU), its water level over time, and the survey area of the four satellites are shown, along with a topographic map of Iran and a sketch of the Lake Urmia Causeway. Disclaimer ...

Seen here in 2018, Iran's Lake Urmia has been drying up for years in one of the worst ecological disasters of recent decades — ATTA KENARE Iran's Lake Urmia will dry out completely if rescue efforts ...

Lake Urmia in Iran was once the world's second largest salt lake, but in a matter of years it shrank to almost nothing. Now, the lake is slowly coming back to life. It was the slow lengthening of ...

Like the famous Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and the Salton Sea in California, the salty expanse of Lake Urmia in Iran has been drying up and shrinking for decades. Now the lake ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tehran (AFP) – 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.