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Sand Storms Turn Some Regions in Iran into "Hell"
2016-07-31 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Payvand: Iran is facing a series of environmental disasters this summer, including forest fires, record heat indexes in some provinces and sandstorms threatening the capital, Tehran. Namak (Persian Salt) Lake in Qom province, which once measured 200,000 hectares, has completely dried up because of climate change, the ill-considered construction of tens of dams and depleted underground water resources. According to Seyed Ahmad Shafie, deputy director of the office of environmental protection for Qom,...
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