Public concern over environmental issues such as ecosystem degradation is high. However,
restoring coupled human-natural systems requires integration across many science …

Drying lakes have become a new source of dust, causing severe problems in surrounding
areas. From 2000 to 2017, a statistical study was conducted on Lake Urmia in Iran in the …

Nowadays, dried lake beds constitute the largest source of saline dust storms, with serious
environmental and health issues in the surrounding areas. In this study, we examined the …

Salt Lakes, having a salt concentration higher than that of seawater and hosting unique
extremophiles, are predominantly located in drought-prone zones worldwide, accumulating …

Urmia Lake is the largest lake in the Middle East which has greatly decreased in recent
years. It has had a great impact on the environmental properties of areas around the lake …

Land use change is an effective factor in climate change and global warming, which
contributes to the carbon cycle, radiant energy balance, and dust production. Urmia Lake …

Urban ecosystems are a complex combination of natural and artificial biological systems
(Dizdaroglu, 2015; Nazmfar et al., 2020a). This ecosystem is human-based and is …

Dust is among the atmospheric phenomena with negative environmental effects and
consequences for urban areas' long-term viability. In recent years, due to the lack of rainfall …

Environmental crises in Iran, including lack of rainfall and drying rivers, wetlands, and lakes,
have caused natural and human hazards and vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, the drying of …

The area of Lake Urmia, as the largest closed lake in the world, has significantly reduced in
the last three decades, and this trend has had in-depth effects on environmental …