OROUMIEH, Iran – The first cabinet decision made under Iran's new president, Hassan Rouhani, wasn't about how to resolve his country's nuclear dispute with world powers. It was about how to keep ...

Iran's largest lake is dying, but it's giving new life to antigovernment protests along its receding shores. Lake Orumieh, one of the world's largest saltwater lakes, has shrunk by some 60 percent ...

Straddling the misleadingly named provinces of East and West Azerbaijan in Iran, Lake Urmia has been an icon of Middle Eastern geography since… well, pretty much since geography was a thing. It ...

LAKE URMIA, Iran — An eerie and forlorn tableau greets visitors to the arid shores of this once-vast lake in Iran’s far northwest. Rusting ships sit wedged in deep black mud. Stray dogs nibble ...

Lake Urmia, in northwestern Iran, is named after the provincial capital city of Urmia, originally an Assyrian (Syriac) name meaning city of water (ur = city and mia = water). The lake has 102 islands.

Salt storms are an emerging threat for millions of people in north-western Iran, thanks to the catastrophe of Lake Urmia. Once one of the world’s largest salt lakes, and still the country’s largest ...

Lakes Bakhtegan and Tashk (together known as the Neyriz Lakes) in the Fars Province in southern Iran are featured in this image acquired by ALOS Japan's four-tonne Earth observation satellite ...

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 ...

AsiaOne - ZABOL, Iran - Nazar Sarani's village in southeast Iran was once an island. It is now a desert, ... As lakes become deserts, drought is Iran’s new problem . AFP. Mar 21, 2015.

Population growth and the uneven distribution of water in Iran will likely create chronic water shortages, according to a 2005 report by the National Research Council. The report also estimated that ...

TEHRAN – In the heart of Iran's picturesque Ilam province lies a hidden gem for nature lovers, the twin lakes of Siyah Gav in the city of Abdanan. This natural wonder, situated 35 kilometers northeast ...