Lake Urmia, once the world's second-largest saltwater lake, has shrunk drastically, leaving salt-encrusted marshes and barren flats in its southern region. Its decline reflects deeper challenges ...

Northern Iran’s wetlands are collapsing, leaving once-thriving bird habitats eerily silent. In Golestan province, hundreds of thousands of migratory birds failed to arrive this autumn, with drought ...

But there's been no move to change that calculus, as Iranians themselves remain fearful of war resuming. Each fire or ...