Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, Nov 6 UNPO submitted a report on Iran to UPR Info, a non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). This report is published three years after the Islamic Republic’s last UPR review in 2014 and looks at the country’s dismal record when it comes to environmental …
Read More »The latest NASA Image Shows Complete Drying of the lake Urmia
Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, Sep 28 The latest NASA image from the second largest salt lake “Urmia lake” shows that this lake is drying completely. These days, concerns about the destruction of Lake Urmia has become an international issue and an environmental crisis. Gary Lewis, the UN‘s representative in Iran, also expressed …
Read More »Impressive Animation “I am Lake Urmia” by young South Azerbaijani
Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, June 7 An impressive animation of a young South Azerbaijani from Urmia about the drying of Lake Urmia was welcomed by Azerbaijani users on social networks. In the silence and neglect of Iranian authorities, South Azerbaijani youth have tried to familiarize public opinion with the disastrous consequences of …
Read More »Intense Dam Building Policy and Its Impacts on the Lake Urmia
Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Feb 27 According to Iran Water Resources Management Company, Currently, there are 64 dams in the watershed of Lake Urmia. Another 27 dam is under construction. The bridge between Urmia Lake is named as the first factor of drying lake. Also, creating dams in the watershed of Lake Urmia …
Read More »Petition to Save Lake Urmia
Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Feb 3 A group of southern Azerbaijan environmental activists created a campaign to “save the Urmia lake” The Signatures collected during this campaign will be sent to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Lake Urmia, the largest lake in the Middle East and one of the unique ecosystems of the …
Read More »Drying of Lake Urmia and It’s Relation in Air Pollution of South Azerbaijan
Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Dec 24 Mr. Behrouz Sari the Director of Climatology of Tabriz University expressing that more than 90% of the Lake Urmia has dried up and Confirmed: “There is a meaningful connection between the dust emission of Lake and Air Pollution of Azerbaijan regions.” Mr. Behrouz Sari added that according …
Read More »The South Azerbaijan another River with the name of Qizil-Uzen is Drying in Zanjan
Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Dec 8 Water crisis in different parts of South Azerbaijan enters a new phase and this time the authorities announce the new environmental crises in South Azerbaijan-Zanjan city. General directorate of environmental protection of Zanjan Province stated that The Qizil-Uzen is drying day by day and warning about the …
Read More »IRAN’S REGIME CONFESSES TO DRYING THE LAKE URMIA
Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Nov 2 The Tabnak site (an official website of Iran Regime) published a news, confessed that the Lake Urmia was deliberately dying by government which will cause huge numbers of immigration. The site stated that the people of the northwest residing in the territory of Azerbaijan will immigrate to …
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