Lake Urmia in northwest Iran, once the Middle East’s largest lake, has mostly turned into a dry salt flat by autumn 2023. While it experienced a resurgence in 2020 due to unusual rainfall, historical trends show it has been drying since 1995, losing nearly 90% of its area.
A few years after a fresh influx of water raised its levels, Lake Urmia has nearly gone dry.
After rapidly growing in volume just a few years earlier, northwest Iran’s Lake Urmia nearly dried out in autumn 2023. The largest lake in the Middle East and one of the largest hypersaline lakes on Earth at its greatest…
Continue Reading
News Source: scitechdaily.com