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Iran’s government hopes to save Lake Urmia for both wildlife and recreation, including therapeutic baths in its very salty waters. HOSSEIN FATEMI/PANOS PICTURES/REDUX
After revival, Iran’s great salt lake faces new peril
Apr. 29, 2021 , 3:10 PM
Twenty years ago, geochemist Arash Sharifi began to drill sediment cores in Iran’s Lake Urmia then the largest lake in the Middle East to probe its recent climate history. “I was shocked at how little was known about the lake,” recalls Sharifi, now at Beta Analytic Inc. in Miami. He became entranced by the “very unique chemistry” of its hypersaline waters. He also grew alarmed: Dams on feeder rivers and a proliferation of illegal wells had made the lake, a favorite haunt of flamingos and migratory birds, “vulnerable to hydrological collapse,” he wrote in an internal government report.
Taylor Haelterman
Teresa Strandlie of Marquette takes a walk on the Lake Superior shoreline in Marquette. Michigan residents worry a lack of environmental education threatens the state’s defining feature, the Great Lakes, according to a recent study. (Journal file photo)
LANSING Michigan residents worry a lack of environmental education threatens the state’s defining feature, the Great Lakes, according to a recent study.
Focus groups from both peninsulas identified environmental threats for coastal communities and called for education on how to be better stewards of the Great Lakes, according to the study published in the Journal of Great Lakes Research.
By Taylor Haelterman
Residents worry a lack of environmental education threatens Michigan’s defining feature, the Great Lakes, according to a recent study.
Focus groups from both peninsulas identified environmental threats for coastal communities and called for education on how to be better stewards of the Great Lakes, according to the study published in the Journal of Great Lakes Research.
Concerns varied by lake, but the two most common themes were rising water levels and lack of environmental education. Those surveyed also listed beach erosion, pollution, public access, invasive species and lake user’s safety as concerns, said Kenneth Levine an author of the study and adjunct professor in the Michigan State University communications department.
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