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Officials share remarkable before-and-after images of lake after years of drought: 'Maybe there is some hope now'
Iran's Lake Urmia, the largest lake in the Middle East and the world's sixth-largest salt lake, saw its volume increase by 248 million cubic yards year-over-year, according to the Tehran Times.
Tehran Times13d
Lake Urmia’s water volume increases by 80 mcm
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 ...
UN Environment Programme4d
This data platform charts the health of nearly every freshwater body on Earth. Here’s what it reveals
The Freshwater Ecosystems Explorer offers what experts call an unprecedented look at the world’s lakes, rivers and wetlands, ...
National Geographic news4y
Some of the World's Biggest Lakes Are Drying Up. Here's Why.
Africa’s Lake Chad is a sliver of its former self. Iran’s Lake Urmia has shrunk by 80 percent in 30 years. What remain are the carcasses of ships settled into the silt. Similar scenarios are ...
Trend News Agency7d
Connecting railroads of two Iranian Provinces stands crucial - minister
BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 15. The connection of the railroad networks of Iran's East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan provinces ...
Tehran Times26d
Lake Urmia's water volume increases by 160 mcm yr/yr
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 ...