Environment
Iran environment news, Read the latest environment news on Iran, including news on wetlands, wildlife, pollution, urbanization and sea life.
January 28, 2023 17:46
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March 05,2018Tehran mayor’s campaign calling for planting trees instead of growing grain seeds (Sabzeh) as a Norouz ritual has drawn both appreciation from environmental experts and criticism for not being... -
March 05,2018Smartphones and data centers will be the most damaging information and communications technologies...
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March 05,2018Iran’s challenges in the face of water shortage have been long dubbed as “water crisis” but some experts are bringing forward a different terminology and stress that it should be referred to as “...
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March 05,2018Some 500,000 customers remained without power throughout the eastern United States on...
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February 28,2018Tehran's need for strategies and facilities to manage electronic waste is gradually getting serious, an expert at the Department of Environment said. Fatemeh Akbarpour added that although there is...
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February 28,2018The project to transfer water from Oman Sea and Persian Gulf in the south to the mainland could help boost the economy and restore the environment, an official at the Department of Environment said...
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February 28,2018China’s smog-prone port city of Tianjin issued its first level 2 “orange” pollution alert this year effective from...
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February 28,2018During the National Conference on Water Diplomacy and Hydropolitical Opportunities in West Asia, efficient management of water resources was underscored as key to addressing the prevailing...
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February 28,2018Europe remained gripped on Wednesday by a blast of Siberian weather that has killed at least 24 people and carpeted palm-lined Mediterranean beaches in snow.
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February 26,2018Water from Boukan Dam will soon feed the ailing Urmia Lake with 70 million cubic meters of water per second, an official at the West Azarbaijan Regional Water Authority said. According to Kioumars...
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February 26,2018During a High Council for Environment's session last week presided over by President Hassan Rouhani, the borders of protected areas were revised but the alterations have drawn the ire of the...
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February 26,2018The vault storing the world's most precious seeds is taking delivery on Monday of donations that will take it to the 1 million mark. More than 70,000 crops will be added to frozen storage chambers...
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February 26,2018In a letter to the journal Science, Jamshid Parchizadeh, an Iranian conservationist, and zoologist Samual Williams of Venda University, South Africa, said the Fereydounkenar wetlands in the Iranian...
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February 26,2018At least one company began evacuating non-essential personnel after a powerful 7.5 magnitude...
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February 26,2018Illegal hunting fines will increase by 15-30% following revisions by the Cabinet after 21 years, said a deputy at the Department of Environment.
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February 26,2018The Arctic storm dubbed the "Beast from the East" set record low temperatures across much of Europe on Monday and brought a rare snowstorm to Rome, paralyzing the city and giving its residents an...
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February 24,2018The Department of Environment has launched a scheme to monitor all car washes operating in the capital in the next two months to detect polluting units and prevent environmental contamination, a...
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February 24,2018The population of Persian gazelle, an endangered species, has increased from 40 to 200 in Damghan, Semnan Province, since the beginning of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2017). According to...
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February 24,2018A US court temporarily blocked the administration of US President Donald Trump from delaying or ending an existing rule aimed at preventing oil and gas leaks during production, according to court...
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February 24,2018Data from Tehran Air Quality Control Company (affiliated to Tehran Municipality) showed the ban on dilapidated and polluting heavy vehicles in the city has reduced the amount of black carbon in the...
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February 24,2018The Department of Environment insists on continuing the prohibition imposed on the use of plastic water bottles in its offices, although the plan has faced the objection of groups who call it...
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February 24,2018German high-end carmaker BMW on Friday recalled thousands of diesel cars for a software update, after reports it had admitted to authorities they released more harmful emissions on the road than in...
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February 24,2018Scientists have discovered a species of shark that makes its home in the Atlantic Ocean. This particular family of the deep-sea predators was so elusive that it took scientists decades to identify...
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February 21,2018A US teenager has been sentenced to six months in prison after he was found guilty of trying to smuggle a Bengal tiger cub across the US-Mexico border. The six-week-old cub was found in a box on...
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February 21,2018The Department of Environment has called on the parliament to revise the bill on environmental tax expenditure to help develop green industries. The code on environmental tax obliges industries to...
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