The Department of Environment has endorsed the “Car-Free Tuesday” campaign, which encourages Iranians to forego using private vehicles on Tuesdays.
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The animal-rights activist and star of the “The Cove,” which highlighted Japan’s controversial annual dolphin slaughter in the town of Taiji, has been detained at Tokyo’s Narita International…
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According to a new report from the UK-based Ellen MacArthur Foundation, unless the world takes drastic action to recycle plastic, by the year 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the world…
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Isfahan officials are set to extend for another year the pollution-hit city’s scheme to combat smog due to the plan’s slow progress.
“We’ve only managed to implement 60% of the measures…
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The United Nations says the worst drought in 30 years in Ethiopia means 400,000 children are suffering from acute malnutrition and more than 10 million people need food aid. It has appealed for a…
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According to the latest census, the population of several animal species in protected areas and no-hunting zones in Ardestan County, Isfahan Province, have seen a 100% increase compared to the…
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A senior advisor to President Hassan Rouhani has called on municipalities not to issue certificates of occupancy for buildings that fail to comply with Section 19 of the National Building…
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The World Health Organization is set to release shock figures of premature deaths worldwide due to air pollution next month, highlighting the lethal effect of poor air quality on millions of…
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Following the lifting of economic sanctions against Iran by the EU and US at the weekend, the country will be able to import catalytic converters for power plants, which will help reduce the…
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The quality of air in Tehran is once again reaching dangerous levels, forcing officials to close schools on Monday and Tuesday.
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The European Parliament will delay a vote originally set for next week that could have rejected new – and allegedly lax – vehicle emissions rules for the EU. The verdict on the proposed regulation…
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The embattled Department of Environment’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year (starts March 20) has been slashed by $2 million, putting further pressure on a department that has come under…
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The salinity of the embattled Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran means the country’s largest inland body of water will never recover its ecological diversity.
Speaking during an environmental…
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Iran is set to increase its import of timber from Russia and Ukraine in an effort to reduce logging in the country and protect vulnerable forests.
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Following two years of vigorous attempts by environmentalists, the population of the critically endangered Persian squirrel is showing encouraging signs of recovery in the oak forests of Nahavand…
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Rare footage of an elephant herd roaming through Cambodia’s biggest forest sanctuary signals the success of a 14-year conservation program and raises hopes for the endangered species’ survival, an…
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Tehran’s national parks, one of only a handful of areas across the sprawling capital that have remained unspoiled, are shrinking at an alarming rate.
National parks are reserves of natural…
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A fire at a warehouse where various compounds were being stored created a noxious cloud that sickened some 100 people outside Sao Paulo, officials said on Friday. The fire occurred at a storage…
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An illegal trade in the swim bladder of the rare totoabas has placed both these fish and the world’s smallest and rarest marine mammal — the vaquita — at risk of extinction, a report by the London…
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Efforts to stop and reverse the destruction of the Anzali Wetland have failed so far, according to a senior official at the Department of Environment, turning the ecologically-rich wetland into a…
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The Fourth National Conference on Air and Noise Pollution Management opened Tuesday at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran amid weeks of relentlessly low air quality that has battered the…
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The University of Tabriz is acquiring new equipment to be able to use satellite images to monitor the progress of the embattled Lake Urmia’s restoration efforts.
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Wire-tailed swallow, known scientifically as Hirundo smithii, has been spotted for the first time in Iran’s northern Golestan Province.
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Cooler temperatures gave authorities the upper hand on Monday in fighting the wildfire that has killed two people and razed 143 properties in the major beef and dairy farming areas in the…
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A former senior official at the Department of Environment has exposed an environmental disaster unfolding in southern Tehran which has rendered the soil in the region infertile.
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