The Energy Ministry has submitted its environmental evaluation of the contentious Shafaroud Dam project in the northern green Gilan Province to the Department of Environment.
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More than 250 Malaysian schools were closed on Monday due to a heatwave brought on by the El Nino weather phenomenon which is severely affecting food production and causing chronic water shortages…
The number of park rangers in protected areas of Kohgilouyeh-Boyerahmad Province is far below the global standard, according to the director of the provincial office of Department of Environment,…
The sudden and inexplicable death of ten sheep and goats in Sorkh-e-Hessar region in south Tehran has become a cause for concern among provincial environment officials.
The Iran…
The central levee on the Hamoun Wetlands is set to be brought down to allow water to flow more freely into the desiccating wetlands.
Three of the world’s top food and consumer goods companies have dropped a leading Malaysian palm oil producer because of deforestation in its plantations in Indonesia. Unilever, which owns over…
A prominent academic and geographer has said the Caspian Sea’s struggle with pollution is getting worse, especially in the sea’s southern regions that border Iran’s lush northern provinces.
The World Bank Group has announced it plans to mobilize more than $40 billion in clean energy and climate-friendly investments by 2020 and enact a variety of measures to help developing countries…
The Japanese government has donated $1 million to help efforts aimed at restoring Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran.
A report recently published by the Wildlife Conservation Society suggested that the biggest great apes on our planet have faced a ‘catastrophic’ population fall down in the last two decades.
A type of biodiesel extracted from cooking oil waste is being tested in buses that operate on the Bus Rapid Transit line on Imam Ali (PBUH) Highway, which connects northern Tehran to the southern…
Lawmakers on Tuesday approved an article in the draft budget for the current fiscal year (started March 20) that aims to protect forests from overexploitation.
As reported by the IRIB News…
Industrial activity such as mining and logging threatens almost half of the world’s natural World Heritage sites, from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru,…
In response to pressure from animal rights activists, the Department of Environment is drafting regulations to help protect pets from abuse. “The bill will be ready in less than two months,” said…
Kenyan rangers killed a lion that pounced on a man in a crowd after it escaped from a park in the capital of Nairobi. The man, who was hospitalized with deep lacerations and bruises, had joined…
Poland’s Bialowieza is considered by many ecologists to be Europe’s last standing primeval forest — and all of it is protected as a nature park. But the Polish government has just given the green…
World leaders representing more than 100 countries are set to convene in New York on April 22 to sign the historic Paris Agreement in a move that could potentially stave off what scientists have…
The Iranian Space Agency says developing remote monitoring of farmlands and the environment is a top priority in the current Iranian year (started March 20).
Speaking to IRNA, director of…
Iran’s top environment official has laid out the Department of Environment’s priorities for the Iranian New Year that began on March 20.
Without providing details, DOE chief Massoumeh…
The office of the Agriculture Ministry in Fars Province has called on farmers to reduce cultivating water-intensive crops due to the region’s 14-year struggle with drought and water shortage.
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The southern region of Madagascar located in the Indian Ocean archipelago, is facing prolonged drought that has severely impacted agricultural activities. Lack of access to food, water and proper…
When it rains, it pours; an ironic analogy to describe the worsening condition of Iran’s Zagros forests. Years of drought and declining precipitation are the primary causes of the latest threat…
A memorandum of understanding was signed on Thursday between the National Environment Fund and the Austrian RBI Bank.
It was signed by Mohammad Mojabi, deputy head of Iran’s Department of…
When it was first proposed at a 2010 summit in Russia, the idea of doubling the numbers of tigers by 2022 seemed wildly ambitious – given the widespread habitat loss and poaching of the big cats…
The rising water level of Lake Urmia is a sign that the lake has stabilized, raising hopes for the its long-awaited recovery, according to director of the Department of Environment office in East…
