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 ...

Iran's Lake Urmia was once the second-largest saltwater lake in the world, covering more than 2,000 square miles at its deepest in the 1990s. In the past two decades, the lake has dried out ...

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 ...

The agreement has been reached between Iran’s Sharif University of Technology and Australia’s University of Melbourne, noted Hossein Shahbaz, International Officer of Urmia Lake Restoration Program ...

The activists in Tabriz were protesting the Iranian government's failure to take measures to save Lake Orumieh (Urmia), a saltwater lake situated between Iran's East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan ...

Police in Iran have arrested several people at protests against the near disappearance of what was once the world's second largest salt lake. Lake Urmia was Iran's main domestic tourism resort ...