A senior official at the Department of Environment has called on the new members of Tehran City Council to scrap a controversial directive issued 14 years ago by the council.
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The wildlife insurance plan for the Persian leopard—a measure deterring shepherds from killing the animal to protect their livestock—has been renewed for five more years, the Department of…
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Iran is home to 10 species of turtle, most of which are facing grave threats to their survival.
Speaking to ISNA, Asghar Mobaraki, a biodiversity expert at the Department of Environment,…
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Thirty hospitals in Tehran have poor waste management strategies, the head of Tehran Province's office of the Department of Environment said.
Mohammad Hossein Bazgir added that the…
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A new study of 67 less-developed, malaria-endemic nations, published in AIMS Environmental Science, led by Lehigh University sociologist Kelly Austin, has found a link between deforestation and…
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A well-known South African big game hunter died last week after he was crushed by an elephant during a hunt in Zimbabwe.
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Some 500 new park rangers will be employed by the Department of Environment this year, as DOE looks to beef up security in the 280 protected areas it oversees.
According to Colonel…
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A growing number of people are going to the courts to try to overturn government decisions seen to exacerbate climate change, a global survey of climate change litigation published on Tuesday…
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Combating drought is impossible and Iran must learn instead to adapt to its effects, the head of the Drought and Climate Change Workgroup at the Agricultural Research, Education and Extension…
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In line with a law passed in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2017), Iran will not renew 80% of logging permits in the Caspian Hyrcanian forests in the north.
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A government-proposed bill to protect wetlands is now ready to be signed into law by President Hassan Rouhani, nearly two years after it was sent to the Majlis for review.
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An international team of researchers is arguing that dinosaurs could have evaded extinction had the asteroid that likely wiped them out slammed into the planet a few minutes earlier or later.
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Tehran Municipality's measures in the past few years to control the population of whiteflies besieging the Iranian capital have failed to put an end to their onslaught, said the head of the…
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Temperatures in the Arctic Ocean are increasing twice as fast as in the rest of the world, while the Antarctic Sea is warming at a much slower rate.
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In people's minds, Antarctica may appear as a bleak white landscape but scientists claim the continent is turning green because of global warming. A team of British researchers have tested three…
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A budget of 10 billion rials ($260,000) has been earmarked for programs to promote awareness regarding environmental conservation in Gilan Province through mass and social media.
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The rapid loss of green spaces in Tehran has caused concerns among many, including environment officials, that the Iranian capital may become devoid of these ecologically-important areas.
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Air pollution in the UK is more deadly than in about half of Western Europe, according to a major report by the World Health Organization on how people die.
The mortality rate attributed to…
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Iran has launched a comprehensive monitoring and survey plan for the endangered Luristan newt, the first ever for the species, an official at the Department of Environment said on Saturday.
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A new study by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich shows that the most extreme rain events in most regions of…
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Tehran's Biodiversity Museum will charge no admission fee on May 22 to commemorate the International Day for Biological Diversity. Officials hope the measure will help draw people to the museum.…
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Iran on Tuesday unveiled a plan to combat climate change and meet its carbon emissions cuts by 2030.
Officially called the National Strategic Plan on Climate Change, it was launched in a…
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One of the world's rarest penguins is under threat of extinction, researchers at New Zealand's University of Otago say.
In parts of the coastal South Island habitat, yellow-eyed penguin…
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Over 40% of imperiled Hamoun Wetlands in Sistan-Baluchestan Province have been revived since the beginning of the current Iranian year (started March 21), the head of the provincial Department of…
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The amount of natural gas flaring at Iran's refineries will reach zero by 2019, the country's top environment chief predicted.
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