The temperature in Tehran will hit 40 degrees Celsius on Friday, the head of Forecasting and Early Warning Office at the Iran Meteorological Organization said. "Maximum and minimum temperatures in…
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Incoming city councils have been called on by senior government officials to prioritize environmental issues and devise policies that benefit future generations.
During a meeting earlier…
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If the Urmia Lake Restoration Project fails to achieve an ecological balance by 2030, it will endanger the lives of 14 million people, the director of West Azarbaijan Disaster Mitigation and…
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The temperature baseline used in the Paris climate agreement may have discounted an entire century’s worth of human-caused global warming, a new study has found.
Countries in the Paris…
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Those juicy Persian honeydews and tasty watermelons might hit the spot in summer, but they're costing Iran a lot of water.
Environment officials and water experts have long implored water…
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Only Euro-5-compliant vehicles will be registered as of March 2019, the head of the Department of Environment said.
“Since 2014-15, the government only allows vehicles with Euro-4-compliant…
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Environment officials and volunteers released 15,000 fish bred in tanks into Dez River in Khuzestan Province over the weekend to increase the population of shabout and carp.
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New research suggests continental drift dictates volcanic carbon emissions.
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Swati, the oldest tiger in captivity in India, died of old age in the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati in the early hours of Sunday. She would have been 21 in January 2018. “She was not keeping good…
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US President Donald Trump’s apparent change of heart regarding the Paris climate accord is the result of growing pressure inside and outside the United States, the head of the National Climate…
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A senior water official in Hormozgan Province has attributed the strange taste of drinking water in Bandar Abbas to the presence of algae in reservoirs.
“The change in water taste is not a…
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Environmental scientists dream of eliminating pollution with natural resources, but that’s tricky when it comes to heavy metals.
Plants won’t work for cleaning polluted water and only some…
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Commercial logging in the Caspian Hyrcanian forests will end by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2018), a forestry official said.
As part of the Forest Protection Act, such…
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Iran and Afghanistan have held preliminary talks about the water rights of transboundary Hamoun Wetlands, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said.
Speaking to ILNA, the…
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Paleontologists from China and Iran have discovered the fossilized tracks of a biped dinosaur in the mountainous areas of Alborz Province during a joint expedition.
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Particulate matter concentration reached dangerous levels on Wednesday in Natanz and Zabol, sending local authorities into damage-control mode.
Zabol in Sistan-Baluchestan Province has been…
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A staggering 27 billion cubic meters of water are wasted in Iran every year, according to the head of the Department of Environment.
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Indonesia is suing an arm of Thailand’s biggest energy group, PTT, for the equivalent of more than $2 billion over a 2009 oil spill the archipelago country says damaged its environment and the…
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A new type of bicycle that reduces pollution by cleaning air as people cycle could soon be introduced in Britain.
Developed by a Dutch designer, the device is first being introduced in…
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There has been a 30% decline in the number of wildfires and the area they burn during the first three months of the current Iranian year (started March 21) compared with the same period of last…
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Tehran's temperature is forecast to drop to 29 degrees Celsius on Thursday, Tehran Province's office of Iran's Meteorological Organization announced. In a report published on its website on…
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Governments and schools are not communicating the most effective ways for individuals to reduce their carbon footprints, according to new research.
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A rare female Persian leopard that had undergone spinal surgery in February is recovering so well that authorities plan to move her to a bigger area before releasing her back into the wild.
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Vietnamese authorities have seized nearly three tons of ivory hidden among boxes of fruit, officials said on Sunday, the latest haul to spotlight the country's key role in the global wildlife…
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The first phase of wildfire drills in protected areas managed by the Department of Environment is scheduled for July 11, according to the director of DOE's Hunting and Fishing Office.
The…
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