Sand and dust storms, which have engulfed the southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan Province for several days, will increase in intensity and persist at least until `Friday.
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The bill to support park rangers drafted by the Department of Environment in July 2016 has been revised by the government’s Social Affairs Commission and will be submitted to the parliament within…
Three percent of revenue from every oil contract will be used to implement environmental protection measures, according to Iran’s chief environment official.
Thailand has seized more than 300 kg of ivory from Malawi on flights into Bangkok’s main airport, authorities announced, underscoring the country’s continued role as a regional smuggling hub. The…
The 8th Asian Safe Community Conference commenced in Mashhad, capital of Khorasan Razavi Province on Monday, attended by 400 domestic and foreign experts.
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) ward was opened at Shahid Mofatteh hospital located in Varamin in the southern part of Tehran Province on Tuesday. More than $1.2 million (45 billion rials) was…
Annually, more than 2,500 kidney transplant surgeries are performed on patients with organ failure at 26 specialized centers across the country, 10 of which are located in Tehran.
In the…
The Department of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering of Amirkabir University of Technology ranked first in achievements in the minerals industry at the annual competition of the Society for…
Three Afghan workers, who were trapped under the debris of a collapsed wall at a construction site in Qeytariyeh neighborhood on Tuesday, were rescued by Tehran’s Fire Fighting Department. “One…
Health studies show that participating in positive, goal-directed activities helps young people develop important life skills and decrease their chances of engaging in risky behavior.
Startup companies are conventionally for-profit enterprises, but in recent years philanthropic ventures have begun adopting the startup model and technological knowhow to develop new non-profit…
Three neuroscientists won the world’s most valuable prize for brain research on Monday for pioneering work on the brain’s reward pathways - a system that is central to human and animal survival as…
World Kidney Day is observed annually on March 9. The theme this year is ‘Kidney Disease & Obesity.’
The global health awareness campaign focuses on the importance of kidneys and…
There are 11 centers which perform cochlear implants in the country and the number of people with hearing impairment is on the rise, said Saeed Mahmoudian, head of the Hearing Health Office at the…
Traffic police chiefs met on Monday in Tehran to discuss the measures to be taken during the upcoming Norouz (Persian New Year) holidays from March 20, to prevent road mishaps during the two-week…
Over the past 3.5 years, a total of 110,000 children out of school in Sistan-Baluchistan Province, have returned to the classrooms. The figure was 200,000 in 2015.
A 286-bed state-run educational hospital in the eastern part of the country opened in Birjand, capital of South Khorasan Province on Monday, in the presence of Health Minister Hassan Qazizadeh…
In a meeting between the new Portuguese Ambassador Jaoa Corte Real and Iranian deputy minister of science, research and technology for international affairs Hossein Salar-Amoli in Tehran on Sunday…
Translating the UN Sustainable Development Goal 4 into national priorities is an immense undertaking that requires adapting the global targets to national priorities and the local context, and…
Social isolation is a growing public health concern. In recent years, research has linked social isolation to an increased risk of mortality, and a new study investigates the impact of social…
The Department of Environment has asked people across the country not to purchase endangered aquatic species other than goldfish, for the festivities related to the Iranian New Year (Norouz) on…
Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani said regional countries should not concern themselves with Afghanistan's dam construction and called for their support.
"We expect our neighbors not…
Sediments annually inflict around 640 trillion rials ($16.8 billion) in damage to concrete dams in Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari Province, said the head of the provincial office of the Forests, Range and…
In the buildup to Wednesday's Spring Budget publication, the UK-based NGO Friends of the Earth is calling on UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond to introduce a diesel scrappage scheme…
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is pledging to make the country's smoggy skies blue again and "work faster" to address pollution caused by the burning of coal for heat and electricity.
