Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. But what happens when ...

The desiccation patterns experienced by Lake Urmia in Iran and Lake Hamoun and other lakes across West and Central Asia indicate joint reasons for concern regarding dust releases and climate ...

Lake Urmia in northern Iran was once the largest such saltwater body on earth, but it has shrunk to a 10th of its former size, experts say, because of damming of the rivers flowing into it and ...

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 ...

TEHRAN, Jul. 28 (MNA) – Energy Minister CHitchian has elaborated on the Ministry's measures to revive the dried-out Urmia Lake in Tuesday’s open session of Parliament.

Melissa Cobo, of Utah State University, conducts gas sampling in the field (photo courtesy of Soren Brothers) The research team measured carbon dioxide and methane emissions from the exposed sediments ...

"Human-caused desiccation of Great Salt Lake is exposing huge areas of lake bed and releasing massive quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere," Soren Brothers, lead author of the study ...

Increasing desiccation of the Great Salt Lake in Utah: 7 percent more greenhouse gas emissions for the state “Human-caused desiccation of Great Salt Lake is exposing huge areas of lake bed and ...

Well-known salt lakes such as the Aral Sea, Lake Urmia, the Caspian Sea and the Great Salt Lake, which was the subject of the study, are increasingly drying up. Increasing desiccation of the Great ...

Emissions from drying lake beds The research team measured carbon dioxide and methane emissions from the exposed sediments of Great Salt Lake between April and November 2020. These measurements were ...

The Great Salt Lake in Utah's dried out lakebed contributing 7 percent of the state's human-produced greenhouse gasses in 2020.

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 4.1… ...