Water authorities from Iran and Australia met in a two-day conference titled "Water Guide Dialogue" in Tabriz, East Azarbaijan Province, late last week, to discuss Iran's water crisis.
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The idea of introducing school breaks during winter in the hope of curbing air pollution in Tehran and other major cities is not feasible, a member of the parliament said.
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Fears of a growing environmental disaster in the East China Sea escalated as a tanker continued to burn and leak oil on Monday, two days after colliding with a cargo ship.
On Saturday…
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Heavy rain fell across Singapore early on Jan. 8, causing flash floods in at least nine areas in the eastern part of the island, which stranded cars and stopped traffic. The National Water…
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Bushfires in Australia destroyed buildings and threatened lives on Saturday, as a heat wave in three states raised temperatures high enough to melt the bitumen on a highway.
A fire…
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The volume of water flowing into Karoun, Karkheh and Maroun dams in the southwestern province of Khuzestan has declined by 31% during the first three months of the current Iranian water year (…
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Restrictions on dilapidated trucks and buses, which are responsible for much of the air pollution, can help improve air quality in the cold season when pollution levels peak, the head of the…
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US regulators formally launched a review process on Friday, which could produce a permit a Canadian mining group needs to build the Pebble Mine copper and gold project in southwest Alaska, which…
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Treated wastewater from the surrounding cities is currently the only dependable source of water for feeding the embattled Urmia Lake, as lack of precipitation continues to hamper restoration…
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A 23,000-hectare area in Semnan Province was officially designated as a private nature preserve on Tuesday by the Department of Environment to become the fifth of its kind in the country.
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Chocolate could run out in the next 30 years, because the crop will be harder to grow in a warming climate, experts have warned. The cacao tree, from which we get cocoa beans to make chocolate,…
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A major winter storm will start hitting the US Southeast up through New England on Wednesday with freezing rain, snow and strong winds, adding to record-shattering cold that is keeping its grip…
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China will not approve any new commercial land reclamation initiated by local authorities this year, but key defense and infrastructure projects planned by the central government are likely to…
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The government's forest conservation bill, which aims to restrict the exploitation of northern forests, will go into effect in two years, although the delay has caused considerable damage to the…
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The new road traffic scheme presented by Tehran Municipality is set to take effect early in the new Iranian year (to start March 21), despite ambiguities and lack of infrastructure.
Four…
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A top Foreign Ministry official said West Asian governments are seriously in need of pursuing water diplomacy to address the severe water crisis gripping the region, noting that they can work…
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Based on the latest figures, 184 wastewater treatment plants are currently operational across Iran with an annual output of about 1.2 billion cubic meters of processed wastewater, said a senior…
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As Tehran's air quality began to hit unhealthy levels, the authorities were left with no other choice but to take the same emergency short-term measures such as traffic restrictions and schools…
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China's State Forestry Administration announced that from the very last day of 2017, any transaction involving ivory, including bringing ivory from abroad into China, would be illegal. It did so…
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The fire that swept through the southeastern Hamoun Wetland, Sistan-Baluchestan Province, was put out shortly after it started on Friday morning.
According to Nayereh Pourmolaei, head of…
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Iran Meteorological Organization warned that the country will continue to receive low levels of precipitation until the end of the current Iranian year on March 20, 2018.
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Illegal hunters of migratory birds in Fereydunkenar Wetlands in Mazandaran Province that had already been given an ultimatum to remove their gears will face legal action based on an announcement…
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US President Donald Trump's recent tweet suggesting that the ongoing cold snap gripping the nation disproves global warming has raised an outcry in response from climate scientists.
On…
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A female Asiatic cheetah cub, which was discovered during a police raid on the smugglers' hideout in Tehran, has been transferred to Pardisan Park research center.
Speaking to ISNA, Naqi…
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The 4.2 magnitude earthquake that occurred 50 km west of Tehran in the early hours of Wednesday left one person dead of heart attack and at least 56 people injured. According to Iran's Emergency…
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