Around half a million cars in Tehran are threatening the wellbeing of 9 million people in the Iranian capital and not a thing is being done about it, according to the head of Tehran Air Quality…
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It might not all be bad news for the renewable energy industry. While plummeting oil and coal prices make fossil-fuel power projects more attractive, strong government support is making sure the…
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In an attempt to draw attention to the atrocity of ivory poaching, artist Kevin van Braak submitted a thought-provoking piece to the international outdoor art exhibit Lustwarande in…
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Iran is inching closer to the establishment of hazardous waste treatment plants, which would override the need to export hundreds of tons of dangerous waste materials abroad for disposal.
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The past September has broken heat records worldwide, according to a US report. It is the seventh time this year that a month has overshot global records, with climate scientists blaming El Nino…
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Despite opposition from environmental groups and authorities, First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri has approved plans on behalf of the government to construct Shafaroud Dam in Gilan Province.
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While the world has been focused on the large-scale rhino poaching taking place in the Kruger National Park, elephant poaching has slipped under the radar.
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One of the strongest ever hurricanes lashed western Mexico with rain and winds of up to 165 mph (266 km/h), causing chaos in coastal towns and resorts but less damage than feared before weakening…
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The first Tehran Green Startup Weekend will be held on November 18–20, coinciding with the Global Entrepreneurship Week (Nov. 16-22), Sarvenaz Arianfar, an organizer of the event, said. The…
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Shidvar Island in the Persian Gulf has been proposed as one of the main habitats for marine turtles, director general of the Department of Environment’s Office for Museums of Natural History said…
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To address the growing problem of whiteflies in Tehran, a plan of action devised by the Ministry of Agriculture Jihad and the Tehran Parks and Green Space Organization will be prepared in the form…
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Iran will be forced to import energy in 2024 if current patterns of energy consumption do not change, warned the head of National Center for Weather and Climate.
“Based on extensive studies…
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A Greenpeace East Asia investigation has discovered that nearly 3,200 acres of natural forest, equivalent to 1,814 soccer pitches, in the Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries have been illegally felled…
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Oslo Council says it wants to ban cars from its city center by 2019 to try and cut greenhouse emissions. However, the move has been met with skepticism from local businesses, who say they fear…
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The Department of Environment backs the implementation of the Low Emission Zone plan in Tehran, one of Iran’s most polluted cities.
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The judiciary has closed Tabriz thermal power plant following the revelation that the plant was using mazut—low quality fuel—to generate electricity, which contributed to the metropolis’ pollution…
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Following reports on Tuesday that the National Iranian Gas Company was preparing for an “unusually cold winter” due to the weather phenomenon El Nino, officials have moved to rebuff the claims.
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The European Union is set to overachieve on its 2020 target for reducing greenhouse emissions by 20%, according to a report published on Tuesday by the European Environment Agency.
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Iran could as much as quadruple its efforts to curb fossil fuel emissions if economic sanctions imposed by USA, the United Nations and European Union are ended, the country’s lead envoy at UN…
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Zimbabwe will not charge American dentist Walter Palmer for killing its most prized lion in July because he had obtained legal authority to conduct the hunt, a Cabinet minister said on Monday,…
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The Energy Ministry is set to proceed with the construction of the controversial Shafaroud Dam in northern Iran, despite staunch opposition from Iran’s top environmental authorities and activists…
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Tests on Euro-4 gasoline distributed in Tehran have shown significantly high amounts of sulfur, CEO of Tehran Air Quality Control Company said.
“However, octane ratings were within the…
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Sunday he would cut funding for the US Environmental Protection Agency. “Environmental Protection,” Trump said on Fox News Sunday after…
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Aras River, which is contaminated by pollutants, is expected to be cleaned up by January 2017, Mohammad Javad Soroush, deputy for water and soil at the Department of Environment said on Sunday.
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As UN diplomats convened in Bonn on Monday, developing nations were balking at the latest draft of a global climate agreement to be inked in Paris in December, negotiators and experts said.
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