This beautiful lake in northwestern Iran has had a rough couple of decades. Until around 1995, Lake Urmia was one of the 10 largest saltwater lakes on Earth, and the center of a thriving resort scene. Then drought, rising temperatures, water overuse, and the building of a causeway across the lake reduced it to less than 10% of its size by the 2010s.
Back on the rise
Today in History
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Super sandy Sweet 16
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Assembling the Smithsonian
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International Sloth Day
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International Haiku Poetry Day
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Womens History Month
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Castle on a hill
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Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
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Is there a bug-egg emoji for this?
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Yarn for Distaff Day
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Classical music takes center stage
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National Park Week begins
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Time to count some birds
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A day for our oceans
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Asteroid Day
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St. Patricks Day in County Waterford, Ireland
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The mountaintop of toppled gods
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A holiday beacon of light
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The most wonderful day of the year. Period.
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Spring comes to the Diablo foothills
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Milford Sound/Piopiotahi rainforest in New Zealand
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It’s National Dolphin Day!
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Horsetail Fall, Yosemite National Park, California
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Gray seal pup, Norfolk, England
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It s National Camera Day. Get the picture?
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Nesting season for the leatherbacks
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Go by Kehinde Wiley
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From Sputnik to extraterrestrial storms
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World Jellyfish Day