Iran’s Guardians Council has returned the bill on the landmark Paris Agreement on combating climate change to the Majlis for further review due to the lack of annexed documents concerning…
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French emergency services were battling a major forest fire in the south of France on Sunday, just weeks after several thousand hectares were destroyed by blazes in Provence and the…
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A Canadian company has expressed readiness to cooperate with Iran in training firefighting staff and supplying fire equipment to help control wildfires in Khuzestan Province.
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UK-based design, engineering and risk management consultancy BMT Group has been hired by the environment agency of Abu Dhabi’s government to determine the environmental capacity of three new…
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Recent mining operations in the heart of an oak forest in Baneh, Kurdestan Province, have been criticized by environmental authorities and activists.
A 375-hectare lead and zinc mine has…
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China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has warned that unfavorable weather could raise the risk of smog over autumn and winter, and it vowed to improve its emergency response time to…
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Air quality in Shiraz, the capital of Fars Province, has been the best on record this year, among all the Iranian metropolises, a senior official of the Department of Environment said.
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Urmia Lake's water level has dropped from 1,270.64 cm to 1,270.38 cm, showing a 26-cm decline over a year.
However, Farhad Sarkhosh, the head of the provincial office of Urmia…
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Iran’s top environment official warned that the ongoing water crisis, if left unchecked, could pose a grave threat to national security in the coming years, calling for the adoption of…
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Costa Rica is a major producer of oranges, but local orange juice-making companies tend to have little use of orange peels.
So in 1998, one of the juice makers dumped 12,000 tons of…
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Villa construction in the farmlands of northern Iran is strictly banned by a recent order issued by the government. Based on the order, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Roads and…
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The Asiatic cheetah that once roamed lands from the Arabian Peninsula to India only survives in Iran today, but its population is shrinking in its last home that currently has fewer than 50 of…
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The project underway on dredging canals and straits feeding Gorgan Bay and Miankaleh Wetland should be postponed until ecological studies are carried out, said the head of Iran's National…
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Lessons on environment protection will soon enter the school curriculum, the head of Education Office at the Department of Environment said.
Speaking to ISNA, Kioumars Kalantari also…
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Gas flaring is responsible for over 60% of air pollution in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan and a major contributing factor to the province's low air quality alongside dust particles, said…
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The Department of Environment's performance during the first tenure of President Hassan Rouhani (2013-17) and the department's management by Massoumeh Ebtekar includes both achievements and…
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Around 150 people have been treated at hospital after being caught in a mysterious "chemical haze" that blanketed the UK's East Sussex coastline on Aug. 27.
Residents exposed to the…
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Pollutants have been released from refineries operated by Exxon, Shell and other companies, as torrential rains damaged storage tanks and other industrial facilities on the Texas Coast.
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A huge wildfire in the forests of Razojorgalan County of North Khorasan Province was successfully extinguished after a six-hour effort by border guards, the provincial Agricultural Jihad…
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Agriculture has contributed nearly as much to climate change as deforestation by intensifying global warming, according to US research that has quantified the amount of carbon taken from the…
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Some 37 million Iranians are living in water-stressed regions, according to an official at the Geological Survey & Mineral Explorations of Iran.
Speaking to ISNA, Jalil Qalamqash…
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The US state of California raised an estimated $640 million for its greenhouse gas fund by auctioning permits to curb carbon emissions—a result that analysts said shows restored confidence in…
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In megacities, which are home to nearly 10% of the world's 7.5 billion people, trees provide each city with more than $500 million each year in services that make urban environments cleaner,…
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Japan and Iran have agreed to implement the second phase of a plan to protect and manage forests and rangelands along Karoun River, the only navigable river in Iran.
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Local media reported on Wednesday that Lapou Wetland in Mazandaran Province has completely dried up, putting the livelihood of locals at risk.
The news comes as a shock, because just a…
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