Lake Urmia in north-western Iran, one of the world’s largest saline lakes, has shrunk rapidly. Find out more about the causes and estimated recovery time in this video abstract published in Environmental Research Letters (ERL) by Aneseh Alborzi, Ali Mirchi, Hamed Moftakhari, Iman Mallakpour, Sara Alian, Ali Nazemi, Elmira Hassanzadeh, Omid Mazdiyasni, Samaneh Ashraf, Kaveh Madani, Hamid Norouzi, Marzi Azarderakhsh, Ali Mehran, Mojtaba Sadegh, Andrea Castelletti and Amir AghaKouchak. ERL comes to you from Physics World parent IOP Publishing.

Video courtesy CC-BY 3.0, Aneseh Alborzi et al Climate-informed environmental inflows to revive a drying lake facing meteorological and anthropogenic droughts 2018 Environ. Res. Lett. 13 084010 doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aad246