Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said regional countries should not concern themselves with Afghanistan's dam construction and called for their support.
"We expect our neighbors not…
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Sediments annually inflict around 640 trillion rials ($16.8 billion) in damage to concrete dams in Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari Province, said the head of the provincial office of the Forests, Range and…
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In the buildup to Wednesday's Spring Budget publication, the UK-based NGO Friends of the Earth is calling on UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond to introduce a diesel scrappage scheme…
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is pledging to make the country's smoggy skies blue again and "work faster" to address pollution caused by the burning of coal for heat and electricity.
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The government has earmarked $100 million to combat dust storms in the next fiscal year that begins on March 21.
The money, which will be supplied from the National Development Fund of Iran…
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Alborz Province’s Department of Environment has reported a noticeable improvement in air quality, attributing the change to measures taken by the government and local authorities.
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Zimbabwe has appealed for $100 million to help those hit by floods that have killed 246 people since December.
Officials say floods, which follow a crippling drought, have swept through…
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An Education Ministry official has criticized the lack of attention given to the environmental footprint of modern building designs, calling on authorities to push for sustainable designs.
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The Caspian Hyrcanian forests, which form a crescent in southern regions of the Caspian Sea, will disappear due to both deforestation and human-driven climate change, said an environmentalist.
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A Tanzanian court has sentenced a notorious elephant poacher to 12 years in prison.
Boniface Matthew Maliango, nicknamed “The Devil”, was accused of killing thousands of elephants by the…
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The administration of US Donald Trump will slash programs aimed at slowing climate change and improving water safety and air quality, while eliminating thousands of jobs, according to a draft of…
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Ocean scientists will pick 50 coral reefs worldwide to test ways of limiting damage from climate change, pollution and overfishing that threaten to wipe out 90% of all reefs by 2050, according to…
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The borders of Aras Free Trade Zone in northwestern Iran will be redrawn to eliminate areas that overlap protected zones, a senior official of the Department of Environment said.
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The illegal trade of Luristan newt, a salamander species endemic to the southern Zagros mountains in Iran, always spikes in the weeks leading up to the Iranian New Year (Norouz), which begins on…
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A beached whale in Ramin Port in Chabahar, Sistan-Baluchestan Province, is said to have died of wounds from abandoned fish traps, also called ghost nets.
Early this week, villagers and…
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Decades-old regulations and a lack of laws have contributed to years of environmental degradation that has now plagued Iran, according to a legal expert at the Department of Environment.
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The flooding of Jazmourian Wetland in southeastern Iran is only temporary and the lagoon will most likely revert back to its near-desiccated state in just a month.
Relatively high rainfall…
EnvironmentUS environmental chief, Scott Pruitt, has unveiled plans to roll back at least three rules set by the previous administration at the EPA while vowing to give businesses “regulatory certainty”.…
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Iran's top diplomat said on Friday that Tehran is "extending a hand" to neighboring countries to help resolve environmental issues that have plagued the Middle East for years.
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Almost 20% of the food made available to consumers are lost through overeating or waste, a study suggests.
The world population consumes around 10% more food than it needs, while almost 9%…
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Addressing Iran’s water crisis in the sixth five-year economic development plan (2017-22) is the country’s last chance before reaching the point of no return, the head of the National Center of…
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Under-fire environment chief, Massoumeh Ebtekar, has called for the formation of a fact-finding mission to look into the cause of the desiccation of Hoor al-Azim Wetland and the Department of…
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A previously undiscovered species of an extinct primordial giant worm with terrifying snapping jaws has been identified by an international team of scientists.
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Wastewater from special economic zones that are home to oil, gas and petrochemical industries mostly end up in the Persian Gulf, a large portion of which is untreated.
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Newly sworn-in US Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt, whose nomination was ardently opposed by environmentalists and who is poised to roll back major climate and clean…
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