Tehran’s woefully underdeveloped public transport sector is hampering efforts aimed at curbing the air pollution plight, according to the chairman of the environment committee at the Tehran City…
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Wanton destruction of natural habitats in Khuzestan Province is threatening the survival of numerous species, many of which are endemic to the oil-rich province.
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Measures to rid the ecologically-rich Anzali Wetland in the northern Gilan Province of water hyacinth have failed prompting calls for a bigger budget to address the problem.
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Norway has staked its claim as a fossil fuel divestment champion, calling for other countries to keep their fuel sources in the ground, but the country’s oil industry is planning on increasing…
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The European Commission has proposed an overhaul of the ‘type approval process’ for new vehicles, including the way fuel economy figures are calculated, following the Volkswagen emissions scandal…
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Encouraging the private sector to invest in Iran’s public transportation infrastructure is imperative to the successful expansion of the network, according to the director of the Tehran office of…
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Remote communities are not receiving the compensation they are entitled to from schemes designed to conserve tropical forests, a study suggests.
People who depend on being able to harvest…
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Zanjan prosecutor Hojjatoleslam Hassan Mozafari issued a ban Tuesday on dog fighting in the province, following the publication of photos of the horrid pastime in several counties on news websites…
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The stranding of a dolphin on the shores of Hengam Island in the Persian Gulf has biologists scratching their heads. At the time of discovery on January 14, the animal had been dead for three days…
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Iran’s farms lack sufficient soil organic matter (SOM), rendering organic farming inefficient and unsustainable, a former agriculture minister says.
Speaking to ILNA, Isa Kalantari, who…
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Tech giant Yahoo has been accused of fuelling the extinction of elephants by allowing ivory trade on its auction website in Japan.
Avaaz, an online activist network with offices in London…
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Iran has fallen 22 spots in the latest Environmental Performance Index ranking, which was released on Saturday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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A joint Iran-Britain workshop on water management opened on Monday in London, IRNA reported.
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The 5th Regional Conference on Climate Change opened Monday in Tehran with foreign experts on meteorology and environment in attendance.
Senior members of the World Meteorological…
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Last year topped 2014 as the hottest in recorded history, as the El Nino compounded the effects of climate change to wreak havoc on weather patterns around the world, according to the United…
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At a ceremony on Sunday evening, 50 hybrid taxis were unveiled and added to Tehran’s public transportation fleet.
“This is a historic day for the capital’s public transport system,” Seyyed…
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Tehran Oil Refining Company was presented the certificate of green management and was introduced as the country’s best green management organization by garnering the highest performance score at…
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The government is set to begin decommissioning old vehicles in Iran’s public transportation fleet from next week, an official at the Department of Environment said on Saturday.
“The first…
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Nearly 1,200 rhinos were killed by poachers in South Africa last year, officials said Thursday, a slight decrease on 2014, but another year of carnage fuelled by Asian-led demand for their horn.…
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A tree frog only seen once in the 1870s has been found again -- in large numbers and thriving — in the hilly forests of northeastern India.
British naturalist T.C. Jerdon visited Darjeeling…
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Iran and Pakistan are set to join forces to protect the fragile ecosystem of Gwadar Bay, located in the Gulf of Oman on the maritime border of the two states.
The International Union for…
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Barely 10% of Iran’s timber demand is supplied from internal forests, which is the lowest level it has ever been, according to a senior official.
About 76% of wood needs are met by tree…
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A massive snowstorm that has already turned deadly churned up the US East Coast on Friday, forecast to transform into an angry blizzard that could bury the nation’s capital under more than 2 feet…
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Nearly 200 hectares of pristine forest have burned in the past two weeks in Gilan Province due to negligence.
Provincial officials say careless campers who failed to properly extinguish…
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Tehran Municipality, in cooperation with Bank Shahr Bank (city bank), is offering easy loans to cabbies in the latest effort to renovate the capital’s aging taxi fleet.
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