A musical lament calling for the respect for Mother Earth could be heard as a group of indigenous people’s representatives staged their own waterborne demonstration on the sidelines of the United…
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Lack of planning and infrastructure as well as carelessness on the part of tourists has turned what could have been a profitable and eco-friendly tourist activity into the bane of Lorestan…
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The national Persian leopard conservation project is ready and will go into effect from the beginning of the next Iranian year (March 20, 2016) for five years.
The project, which brought…
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Delegates from 196 countries are meeting at the crucial United Nations conference in Paris to discuss a new deal to limit global warming.
Progress is slowing as countries get down to the…
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The city of Khansar in Isfahan Province will receive a $1.5 million grant from the Japan Cooperation Center for the Middle East to help fix its water network eroded by seepage, the Young…
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An official at Iran’s Meteorological Organization has called the handling of Iran’s climate change issue by the Department of Environment “redundant” and accused the DOE of “encroaching on IMO…
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The local government in the Indian capital has said that private vehicles with odd and even registration numbers will only be allowed to operate on alternate days to curb pollution.
The…
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Migrating birds are impressive — one species, the wandering albatross, is known to travel about 16,000 kilometers in a single flight — but they are no match for human development.
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World leaders launched an ambitious attempt on Monday to hold back the earth's rising temperatures, with French President Francois Hollande saying the world was at "breaking point" in the fight…
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The government on Sunday unveiled Iran’s climate plan of action and instructed relevant bodies to do their share to help Iran meet its climate change pledge.
The instructions were issued…
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Over 10 joint environmental projects have been launched in the southern Bushehr Province since the beginning of the current fiscal year (March 21), according to the director of the provincial…
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A drop in the water level of the Caspian Sea will exacerbate environmental pollution since it will ultimately lead to a rise in the traffic of commercial vessels, said the director of Transit and…
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Iran’s top environment official has called on world leaders and the United Nations to seriously consider the impact of wars on climate change and the environment at large.
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A UN summit aimed at securing legally-binding global commitments to curb greenhouse gas emissions has only a fifty-fifty chance of success.
So says a climate chief at the environmental…
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Beijing has raised its air pollution alert to “orange” — the highest level reached so far this year.
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Unless policies are revised and water demand curbed, Iran’s water stress will hit crisis levels once the population reaches 100 million, according to a university professor.
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A South Africa court has lifted a ban on the domestic trade in rhino horns in a case brought by two game farm breeders.
It overturns a moratorium on the trade imposed by the government in…
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Canada on Friday pledged nearly $2 billion (2.65 billion Canadian dollars) over five years to help developing countries fight climate change, just days before a major Paris conference on the…
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Illegal logging and clearing of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest increased 16% the last year, the government said, in a setback to the aim of stopping destruction of the world’s greatest forest by 2030…
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Japan has decided to resume whaling in the Antarctic Ocean by the end of March after a hiatus since last year, a move likely to prompt international outrage. The International Court of Justice…
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Environmental laws in Iran are rarely taken seriously by those in charge of enforcing them, giving the lawless the false impression that they can get away with breaking the law, according to a…
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The Energy Ministry is set to begin transferring water from Iran’s southern regions to the central Iranian Plateau in a bid to help curb the impact of drought.
Quoting Hamidreza Janbaz, an…
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An official at the Department of Environment has castigated the government and executive bodies for putting environmental conservation and protection of natural resources on second priority.
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A Iran continues to grapple with acute water shortages leaning on crisis, it has signed an agreement with Russia to explore some of Iran’s desert regions for new groundwater resources.
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The fate of the quarantined Amur tiger will be clarified by mid-2016, according to a report by IRNA, ending a five-year saga marred by gross mishandling of one the rarest species on the planet.
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