Lake Urmia is one of the most hyper-saline and well-known drying (and even dying) lakes. It has been drying up since 2000. The lake, at an elevation of 1286 m above mean sea level and with an area of 5000 km2, is located in north-western Iran (Supplementary Fig.1). Lake Urmia a...
depending on the winds and the status of the fires, with conditions changing from day to day. It also doesn’t necessarily affect the entire park at the same time. The mountains can block the smoke to some extent, which can mean
The only real change we saw was when we gained significant elevation, where it was more forested. Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs and Steel explained the spread of civilisation as driven by the spread of agriculture – agriculture spread easily in an east-west or west-east direction ...