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.

07/27/2007 Urmia, Iran. four men lie covered in salt and mud on the shore of Lake Urmia, a salt lake ... More in the province of West Azerbaijan.

Why did Lake Urmia turn red? As morbid as the sudden palette switch appeared, its cause was actually something pretty everyday – as in, intrinsic to the foundation of life itself levels of ubiquity.

Summertime bathers wade into waters colored red by salt-loving bacteria and algae. Tourists from across Iran have come here for generations, but the number of visitors has fallen as the lake has ...

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 ...

“If the Great Salt Lake goes away, it would drive up costs and limit our ability to produce food in a lot of the developing world, ... Iran’s Lake Urmia, ...

How a dying Great Salt Lake threatens Utah's overall economy. ... Health-related economic impacts could be sizable, according to the research, which indicated that communities near Lake Urmia, ...

Like Urmia, Chott el Djerid in Tunisia is an endorheic salt lake that is frequently on the brink of complete nonexistence, and, also like Urmia, its water levels are often a vivid red.

It found that the Great Salt Lake’s proximity to nearly 2.8 million Utahns offers a unique paradigm “for how ecological collapse can ... which indicated that communities near Lake Urmia, ...