a desert. reporter: from a lush, natural paradise to a dry, salty desert, global warming is literally evaporating what once was the largest lake in the entire middle east in iran, the sixth largest salt lake in the world. all around this lake, you can see the impact of the global climate emergency on the communities here, on the people, their livelihoods and of course also their future. the authorities tell us today lake ormia is less than half the size of what it used to be. the shrinkage is due in part to dam projects around here, but mostly due to years of severe drought as our planet gets hotter. ahad was a tourist photographer on the boardwalk in what used to be the beach resort shara hana. this photo was only taken in 1995 when tourists still flocked here, he says. people would come here for swimming and would use the mud