Some 83,000 cubic meters of untreated wastewater and sewage are dumped into the coastal waters of Bandar Abbas in Hormozgan Province every day from the refineries and the satellite town of Hadish…
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Scientists have uncovered a shocking new threat to the health of the Great Barrier Reef in the form of human medications and pesticides found in sea turtles.
A team led by the University of…
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Plans to restore Anzali Wetland in Gilan Province are progressing well and will help remove the lagoon from the Montreux Record—a register of endangered wetlands, according to an environment…
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A new, as yet unpublished research by the Wildlife Justice Commission shows that the price of raw ivory in Asia has fallen dramatically since the Chinese government announced plans to ban its…
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A report by SOS Mata Atlantica and the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais shows that between 2015 and 2016, more than 29,000 hectares of native forests were lost, marking a 57.7% increase…
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Iran's top environment official believes the historic Paris Agreement on combating climate change "will not fall apart" after US President Donald Trump pulled Washington out of the accord.
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Tehran and Baghdad signed an accord on Thursday to set up a joint center to combat dust storms in Iraq, less than two months after reaching a verbal agreement.
The agreement was signed in…
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The Department of Environment has begun investigating reports that one of its local offices covered up the death of a young Persian leopard.
Morteza Farid, the head of DOE's Complaint and…
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The first field campaign surveying Papua New Guinea's lush primary forests from the coast to clouds has revealed high mountain tops may house the largest trees recorded globally at such extreme…
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The mushrooming of high-rises around Tehran has cost the city its clean air and accelerated the disappearance of green spaces, according to an official at the Ministry of Roads and Urban…
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Some of the world's most eminent economists have warned carbon prices will have to jump dramatically if the planet were to avoid dangerous levels of global warming.
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An explosion rocked Taiwanese conglomerate Formosa Plastics Group's new steel plant in Vietnam late on Tuesday, a day after it resumed test operations for the first time since causing one of the…
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Members of the Iran-based NGO Mianroudan (Persian: Mesopotamia) have started an online petition urging the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to pressure Turkey into abandoning its…
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Over 25% of drinking water are wasted in Shiraz, Fars Province, due to its dilapidated and inefficient water network, the chief executive of the provincial Water and Sewage Company said.
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Tourists at Uttarakhand's Jim Corbett National Park in India got more than they bargained for after an elephant tried to attack the jeep they were travelling in. A video tweeted by ANI news agency…
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Summer usually heralds the end of school year and the beginning of the seaon when people take long vacations. For Iran, however, it brings the specter of chronic wildfires that devour a portion of…
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Tourism and environment officials are working on a plan to turn Miankaleh Wetland in Mazandaran Province into a hub for bird-watching.
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Coral bleaching on Australia's Great Barrier Reef is worse than first thought and the impact will accelerate unless global greenhouse gas emissions are cut, scientists said on Monday.
The 2…
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The Department of Environment has called on the incoming Tehran City Council members to focus on addressing air pollution by improving the Iranian capital's public transportation.
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President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday signed the Wetlands Protection Bill into law, enhancing protection for Iran's imperiled wetlands.
According to the president's official website President.…
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For the first time in two decades, cheetahs are wandering in Malawi, as four of them have been reintroduced to Liwonde National Park.
According to African Park’s Facebook page, the four…
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The Department of Environment’s scientists have concluded a two-month-long study of coral reefs off the coasts of Bushehr Province to monitor the impact of summer heat on vulnerable marine species…
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Fires burning for more than eight hours engulfed 4 hectares of land around Parishan Wetland in Fars Province, destroying the flora. “The fires, which began at around 11.30 a.m. on Friday, were…
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A proposal to elevate the status of the Department of Environment to that of a ministry has been rejected by the Majlis Social Affairs Commission.
Speaking to ISNA, Rouhollah Babaei, a…
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it was eight against one during the G7 summit in Taormina, Italy.
On one side were leaders of Canada, Japan, France, Germany, Italy and the United…
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