Araz News: The percentage of the Ahwazi Arab population with kidney failure has increased drastically. In the future, it is expected that the rate could triple due to water contamination according to Ahwazi health professionals, since 2014, While Iranian supporters of...
Araz News: Following the revelations of a new plan by the Iranian regime to divert more water from Ahwaz to central provinces of Iran, Ahwazi Arab citizens on Thursday defied the regime’s ban on protests to stage a peaceful demonstration...
Araz News: One of the members of Tehran City Council acknowledged stated that due to air pollution, 412 people have lost their lives in Tehran last month. According to IRNA state run news agency, Habib Kashani also acknowledged that “during the...
Araz News: Ahmad Alirezabeighi, The member of Iranian parliament from Tabriz, told the parliament that the filters used in refineries are poor and the resulting air pollution in some areas is causing birth defects. Alirezabeighi said specific sources of pollution...
Araz News: Wives of 12 ambassadors to Iran joined “I’m Lake Urmia” campaign, which aims to collect one million signatures required by the United Nation to help restore the lake. İt should be noted that the campaign was launched in...
Araz News: Armenia’s nuclear power plant and aluminum plant wastewater entering the river Araz, which its news has leaked a few years ago by environmental activists to the media, have jeopardized the ecosystem of the river and the life of...
Araz News:Drought crisis has hit South Azerbaijan’s most historic lake so hard that many environmentalists from different European and Asian countries who at the invitation of Rouhani’s government visited Tehran to find a possible solution, have no more any hope...
Araz News: The number of date palm trees in the once lush region of Falahiyeh (also known as Shadegan in Farsi) in Ahwaz has fallen by half since 1989 primarily because of the Iranian regime’s diversion of the rivers which irrigated...
Araz News: Lake Urmia’s grim destiny reflects a wider trend of enviromental problems in Iran, including an over-reliance on dams, extreme weather patterns, climatic changes, poor irrigation practices and unregulated use of water. ong tucked away behind the mountains of northwest...
Araz News: The salty waters of South Azerbaijan’s Lake Urmia recently morphed from a deep green to a rich red, likely due to algae and bacteria blooms. Like the famous Aral Sea between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and the Salton Sea in California,...
Araz News: Member of Parliament from Urmia strongly emphasized the low budget in restoring Lake Urmia in Iran Parliament on June 22, 2016 . He stated that due to the onset of warm season and more using water for agriculture it’s remarkable that...
Araz News: Leonardo DiCaprio well-known Hollywood actor shared a photograph of the Lake Urmia in his Instagram page and expressed his concern about the process of drying the lake Urmia on 5th of May. He demanded world attention to the issue...
Araz News: Several years of efforts and protests of national-civil activists of South Azerbaijan people to persuade the Iranian government to restore Lake Urmia has inconclusived. A group of South Azerbaijan people gathered and formed human chain once again to bring...
Araz News: Mohsen Jalalpur, head of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, said that using the water of Urmia lake is about two billion dollars worth of goods produced. He said the water was pouring into the lake has been prevented and the...
Hossein Akhani, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran Lake Urmia, the second largest hyper saline lake in Eurasia, is located in a closed-continental drainage basin in northwest Iran. In the past, the lake had a rich biodiversity that included numerous migratory...
