Over the span of the next four years, around 17,000 dilapidated urban buses will be replaced with new natural gas-powered ones, the director for public transport and traffic at Iran’s…
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The world will be in deep trouble if it fails to tackle climate change, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has warned. “If we don’t address these issues ... we will be moving to a dark…
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The first manual on diseases of Iran’s wildlife was unveiled during a ceremony in Tehran early this week.
The book is a pictorial guide in simple Persian, which introduces common…
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The rate of forest destruction in northern Iran has reached its lowest level in the past 10 years, thanks to the efforts of Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization, the head of…
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A female Persian leopard under medical care has now almost recovered and will soon be released back into the wild.
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Tehran Bus Company has launched a pilot program for supplying biofuel to public transportation fleet for reducing the metropolitan city’s air pollution.
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While media attention was focused on the massive poaching of migratory birds in northern Iran, the illegal practice appears to have spread in southern wetlands.
Each year, with the start…
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The level of Urmia Lake in northwest Iran has declined by 3 centimeters and its area has shrunk by 36 square kilometers over the past two weeks, an official at the Urmia Lake Restoration Program…
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Around 40% of rivers in England and Wales are polluted with sewage, which pose a severe risk to the health of humans and wildlife, according to a new report. Conservation charity WWF's …
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Environmental group Greenpeace on Tuesday issued a report that gave technology titans, including Samsung Electronics, Amazon and Huawei, low marks for their impact on the environment.
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Illegal hunting shelters set up in the port city of Bandar Anzali in the northern province of Gilan to trap migratory birds in Anzali Wetland were raided by the protection unit of the Department…
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Kurdistan spotted newt, an amphibian endemic to Iran, is on the verge of extinction, as water pollution is threatening its most important habitat in Sardasht County in West Azarbaijan Province…
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Tehran’s office of the Department of Environment is to implement a more stringent scheme to monitor sources of air pollution in the capital over the second half of the current Iranian year (…
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The head of the Department of Environment's office in Isfahan has complained that his office lacks the authority to enforce environmental laws and has called for bolstering the jurisdiction of…
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Landmines left from the eight-year Iraq-imposed war pose a serious threat to wildlife in Mishdagh and Fakkeh protected areas in Khuzestan Province, especially goitered gazelles.
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Although green management has been highlighted in the country’s five-year development plans since 2005 and its implementation in governmental entities has been passed as law, the concept has not…
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China will have to launch more ambitious renewable energy and non-fossil fuel targets, and ramp up efforts to enforce them to avoid missing global climate accord requirements, two government…
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The project on channeling agricultural and industrial runoff from western Ahvaz in Khuzestan Province to Hour al-Azim Wetland has been suspended due to environmental reasons.
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The Department of Environment has criticized the fact that revenues from pollution tax have not been spent to address causes of environmental woes.
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The government submitted a bill on waste management to the parliament for approval last week. The bill, which was passed by the Cabinet in late June, focuses on the management and disposal of…
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The Department of Environment and Tehran Municipality have signed a memorandum of understanding based on which TM will be responsible for restoration and maintenance of Pardisan Park in…
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An unprecedented rise in seawater temperature in the summer has caused the extensive bleaching of coral species on several Persian Gulf islands.
According to the latest remote sensing…
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The depletion of Band Alikhan Wetland in southern Tehran threatens the province with the surge of dust storms, the governor of Varamin County said.
Covering 25,000 hectares of area, Band…
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A budget to fence part of the Shahroud-Mashhad Road passing through the habitats of the rare Asiatic cheetahs has been allocated by the government.
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A recent video has given rise to controversy over the death of a brown bear cub in Golestan National Park in Golestan Province on Sept. 4.
The bear cub was seen prowling around…
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