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 for years. Once considered the largest lake in the Middle East ...

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.

the countries have permitted scientific exchanges to brainstorm on how to replenish the diminishing waters of Lake Urmia and Utah’s Great Salt Lake—which are close in size and configuration.

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 ...

The Great Salt Lake, according to industry experts ... has become too saline to support brine shrimp. Iran’s Lake Urmia, another former source of artemia, now produces nothing.

“The Great Salt Lake,” Daniels said ... which indicated that communities near Lake Urmia, Aral Sea, Owens Lake and Mono Lake alike all reported elevated illness rates.

As the Great Salt Lake falls prey to human-induced drought conditions, its increasingly exposed seabed is emitting greenhouse gases and accelerating climate change, a new study has found. About 4. ...

The Great Salt Lake is a chronically-desiccated salt lake, and there are others too: The Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, and Lake Urmia in Iran are some examples. “Ideally, this process will now be ...

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.

Iran’s Lake Urmia; and the Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. It found that the Great Salt Lake’s proximity to nearly 2.8 million Utahns offers a unique paradigm “for how ecological ...