Greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 could still be up to 12 billion tons more than the level needed to keep global warming within 2 degrees Celsius this century, a United Nations report estimated on…
Environment
Low precipitation, injudicious water use/waste and dwindling groundwater resources have exacerbated desertification in the central Isfahan Province.
Hamid Zahrabi, head of the provincial…
China and France agreed Monday that an international deal to tackle climate change to be negotiated in Paris should include checks on compliance, in what visiting French President Francois…
Success of the imperiled Lake Urmia’s revival program is contingent on the redistribution of Zab River’s water to the lake, according to a member of the program.
Scientists are struggling to explain why half of a particular species of antelope died off in a two-week period earlier this year.
The adult saiga antelopes, most of which reside on the…
Discharge of Karoun River in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province, increased for the second time this week, thanks to continuous heavy rainfall in Iran’s western regions, a senior provincial official was…
Three journalists from a state-run weekly newspaper in Zimbabwe will be charged with slander for a front-page story that implicated an unnamed top police officer and other officials in fatal…
The Energy Ministry and its subsidiaries are prepared for the possible repercussions of El Nino this winter, Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian said.
Speaking to reporters on Tuesday,…
An exhibition aimed at raising awareness toward environment protection and its impact on human health will be held in Shahr-e-Rey in south Tehran in January. The ‘Environment, Health and Safety…
Severe flooding in Iran’s western regions, namely Ilam and Lorestan, have devastated livelihoods and incurred billions of dollars in damages. The pain and misery from this and other natural…
Officials battling the historic California drought have issued their first round of $500-a-day fines against four communities for being water hogs the past several months.
French President François Hollande said Monday that Chinese support was “essential” to reaching an effective deal at the forthcoming climate change conference in Paris as he began a two-day state…
Khuzestan lawmakers in the Majlis have asked the Department of Environment chief, Massoumeh Ebtekar, to attend a meeting next week in Parliament on the recent acid rain in Khuzestan Province that…
Intermittent rainfall during the Iranian month of Mehr (September 23 – October 22) and continuous rainfall over the past few days (up to October 31) across Iran denote a 22-percent increase in…
While most regions are affected by water shortage, the crisis is now spreading to provinces that were previously unaffected by the devastating phenomenon.
As such, finding new ideas and…
Iran experienced an 84% increase in precipitation during the month of Mehr (September 23 – October 22) compared to the long-term average, an official at the Iran Meteorological Organization said…
Iran must enter serious talks with Afghanistan and Tajikistan over the barter of electricity for water, the spokesman of the Majlis Energy Commission said on Friday.
Speaking to ILNA,…
Iran’s top environmental official has condemned the “politicization of the environment” by a select few in the wake of a recent protest outside her office at the Department of Environment in…
Scientists say warming must be kept below 2 degrees Celsius by the end of the century to stave off the worst effects of climate change, such as floods, droughts and rising sea levels, the United…
The head of the Department of Environment, Masoumeh Ebtekar, and Matti Anttonen, director of the Department for External Economic Relations at the Finnish Foreign Ministry held talks on ways to…
By the end of this century, climate change could drive temperatures up in the Persian Gulf to levels that humans cannot tolerate, a study suggests.
Lion populations in West, Central and East Africa are in danger of declining by as much as half in the next two decades, according to a study published on Monday in the Proceedings of the National…
The Hamoun Wetlands’ revival and upholding water rights have always been the main topics of discussion with Afghanistan, according to Iran’s top diplomat.
About 43% of coral reefs around Kish Island in the Persian Gulf are bleached, director for coasts and marine biomes at the Department of Environment, said. Speaking at a press conference on…
Despite the increasing demand for ship breaking, the Department of Environment is opposed to the environmentally harmful practice, a deputy at the department has said.
