Iran's Lake Urmia, once the largest lake in the Middle East, has shrunk to historic lows — and new satellite images suggest it may be on the brink of collapse. In August 2025, officials confirmed that ...

To combat a severe water crisis, Iranian authorities have begun cloud-seeding operations to induce rainfall, Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported on Saturday, amid the driest fall in half a ...

Decades of water depletion, dam building, and repression of scientists have driven Iran toward ecological crises that are ...

Imagery captured by the ESA's Sentinel-2 satellites between August 2020 and August 2025 shows the declining water levels of Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran. Trump Says ‘No Deal’ With Putin Following ...

The authorities in Iran have started cloud seeding and sprayed clouds with chemicals in a bid to induce rain to combat the worst drought in the country in decades. The cloud seeding process was ...

"Today, a cloud seeding flight was conducted in the Urmia Lake basin for the first time in the current water year," which begins in September, the official IRNA news agency said late Saturday. Urmia, ...

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