Lake Urmia in the north-western West Azarbaijan province started to dry up in the 2000s. The lake is the largest in West Asia and the sixth-largest salt lake in the world, with a water surface area of ...

Lake Urmia in the north-western West Azarbaijan province started to dry up in the 2000s. The lake is the largest in West Asia and the sixth-largest salt lake in the world, with a water surface area of ...

Revered by ethnic Azeris as “the turquoise solitaire of Azerbaijan,” Lake Urmia was second only to the Caspian Sea as the largest saltwater lake in the Middle East, a haven for birds and bathers.

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 ...

The Great Salt Lake, once the largest saline lake in the Western Hemisphere, sticks out on maps of the United States ... to a tenth of its size, Lake Urmia in Iran is down to 5% of its natural ...

It is located along the Shahar Chay river (City River) on the Urmia Plain. Lake Urmia, one of the world's largest salt lakes, lies to the east of the city, and the mountainous Turkish border area lies ...

Health-related economic impacts could be sizable, according to the research, which indicated that communities near Lake Urmia, Aral Sea, Owens Lake and Mono Lake alike all reported elevated ...

Czech explorers confirm that a hidden thermal lake in Leskovik (Albania) is the largest underground: 294,350 cubic feet.

20 November 2012 Using water from the River Araz to fill drought stricken Lake Urmia in Iran will have a negative impact on the Azerbaijani ecology, chairman of the State Committee for Land and ...

Night - Clear. Winds variable at 6 mph (9.7 kph). The overnight low will be 48 °F (8.9 °C). Sunny with a high of 87 °F (30.6 °C). Winds from S to SSW at 7 to 14 mph (11.3 to 22.5 kph). Haze ...