Beijing’s crystal blue skies did not last long. The blue skies that embraced the city gracefully for nearly two weeks suddenly vanished on Friday morning. In their place,…
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Desertification in Qazvin Province shows no sign of letting up, with about 100,000 hectares of the once lush Qazvin Plain now barren lands, said the head of the provincial office of Natural…
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Given Iran’s severe water scarcity and looming crisis, exporting water is far from rational, according to the director of Iranian Wetlands Conservation Project.
Speaking at the Wetlands…
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The Department of Environment, Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization and academics aim to jointly devise a plan to combat logging to help preserve the country’s forests.
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The Department of Environment has been given access to drones used by the Ministry of Defense to monitor protected areas, director of the Wildlife and Biodiversity Office at DOE said.
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Frustrated by slow progress in global climate talks, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited around 40 world leaders, including US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor…
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In spring, Caspian Sea registered an unprecedented 22-centimeter drop in water level, said an official at the Ministry of Energy.
Morteza Eftekhari, the head of Water Research Institute,…
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The Department of Environment in Khuzestan Province has outlined the plan to revive the imperiled Shadegan Wetland, according to the head of the department, Ahmadreza Lahijanzadeh.
The…
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The water use-to-availability ratio in the rural regions of East Azarbaijan Province is 2-to-1, meaning rural residents are using twice as much water available to them, according to the CEO of…
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Mammoth dust storms rolled through the provinces of Alborz and Tehran late Monday, reducing visibility, breaking windows, bringing down trees and causing power outages in some regions.
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About 90% of all seabirds alive today have eaten plastic of some kind, scientists say.
Australian and British researchers say it demonstrates the urgent need for all nations to better…
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The 195-nation UN climate talks resume on Monday when rank-and-file diplomats gather in Bonn to lay the foundation for a global climate pact to be signed in December.
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The cities of Ahvaz and Isfahan have earned the unflattering title of Iran’s most polluted cities over the past decade.
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In a bid to encourage more sustainable transport and curb air pollution, Paris is going car-free for a day on September 27.
The move, which is aimed at raising awareness of the dangerously…
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A new open-access data portal to be developed by FAO will use satellite imagery to help water-scarce countries in the MENA region better manage this precious resource. “The portal will help…
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A tropical storm heading across the Caribbean has killed at least 20 people on the island of Dominica, with dozens more missing. Tropical Storm Erika hit Dominica, in the eastern Caribbean,…
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Desalinating Caspian Sea to meet the water demands of the Central Iranian Plateau is not the best solution to Iran’s water shortage.
This was declared by Massoumeh Ebtekar, head of the…
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August 13 marked the day when people used up 100% of the Earth’s resources this year, meaning that any consumption from that day onward represents an unsustainable burden on the planet we call…
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Tropical forests covering an area nearly the size of India are set to be destroyed in the next 35 years, a faster rate of deforestation than previously thought, a study warned on Monday.
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An 18-hour effort to check the columns of smoke rising from the desiccated bed of Parishan Wetland in Kazeroun, Fars Province, has curbed the problem to some extent, according to provincial…
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One of the environmental goals of the sixth five-year economic development plan (2016-21) is to prepare the National Red List of Iran’s threatened species, an official at the Department of…
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A powerful typhoon damaged buildings, tossed around cars and flooded streets in southwestern Japan on Tuesday before heading out to the Sea of Japan. No deaths were reported, but at least 26…
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Environmentalists have voiced dismay over the stance of Iran’s Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization regarding Ashouradeh Island.
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The 9th Festival of Asiatic Cheetah National Day will be held in Tehran and a number of other cities on August 27-28.
In 2007, the Asiatic Cheetah Society designated August 31 as the…
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The loss of forest mostly calls to mind the clearing of precious rainforests, but a less tropical type of forest is also under threat. New research suggests boreal forests will require much…
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