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Why a Giant Green Lake Turned Blood-Red [1]

Like the famous Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and the Salton Sea in California, the salty expanse of Lake Urmia in Iran has been drying up and shrinking for decades.

Publication Date: 
02/08/2016
National Geographic News [2]
Tags:
Water Resources [3], Lakes [4], Water Quality [5], Iran [6], NASA [7], Salinity [8], Droughts [9], Agriculture [10]
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