URMIA, IRAN - JULY 06: A drone photo shows that people enjoy at the Lake Urmia, one of the biggest ...More saltwater lakes in the world located in the northwest of Iran, as recovering works ...

Lake Urmia, located in the northwest of Iran, was once the most extensive permanent hypersaline lake in the world. At the beginning of the Lake Urmia Restoration Program in 2013, the Lake’s level was ...

TEHRAN – Lake Urmia started to dry up in the 2000s, and although it revived at some point over the past few years, it is in serious danger these days. Lake Urmia, located in northwest Iran, is the ...

Ahmadinejad then went on promise to release 600 million cubic metres of water from the Aras Dam, located on the lake’s shores, while his successor Hassan Rohani went further, putting Urmia at ...

Speaking to IRNA on Friday, Sarkhosh maintained that the surface area of Lake Urmia in northwest Iran reached 1,270.54 centimeters on December 27, which shows a 26cm increase compared to the same ...

Iranian police have arrested several people for disturbing security after they protested the drying up of a lake once regarded as the Middle East's largest, official media said Sunday.Lake Urmia, in ...

Urmia, one of the largest "hypersaline" -- or super-salty -- lakes in the world, is located between the cities of Tabriz and Urmia, with more than 6 million people dependent on agriculture around ...

TABNAK, Jan 29: A local subsidiary of Iran’s Energy Ministry in West Azerbaijan province, where Lake Urmia is located, said that the amount of water in the lake had increased by 0.19 billion cubic ...

Lake Urmia, in the mountains of northwest Iran, began shrinking in 1995 due to a combination of prolonged drought, and the extraction of water for farming and dams, according to the U.N ...