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Iran’s food waste equals that of food waste in 10 European countries, said secretary of Iran Urban Economics Scientific Association (IUESA).

“Food waste, especially in the urban capitals,…

Iranian researchers at a knowledge-based company under the Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council have produced jujube syrup that has health benefits for blood detoxification and is also effective…

The existing laws to protect the rights of the child are ineffective and need to be reviewed and revised, says Dr. Roozbeh Kordooni, social deputy at the Ministry of Labor, Cooperatives and Social…

Currently, 75% of all food products in the country have ‘traffic light’ tags on them, said Rasoul Dinarvand, head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Heavy rainfall on Sunday caused flooding in two counties of Babol and Sari in the northern Mazandaran Province, said Morteza Salimi, deputy head of the Relief and Rescue Organization at Iranian…

Children who have been in foster care are at significantly higher risk of mental and physical health problems, including learning disabilities, depression, asthma, and obesity, compared with…

During the first six months of this year, minors died from accidental shootings — at their own hands, or at the hands of other children or adults — at a pace of one every other day, far more than…

The results of an animal census carried out in the last Iranian year (ended March 19, 2016) was recently publicized, showing an increase in the populations of deer and ovis but a decline in the…

Statistics provided by the Department of Environment on wildfires in protected areas during the first half of the current Iranian year (started March 20) show a notable decrease in such incidents…

Following the debacle with Volkswagen’s diesel cheating, Europe has taken a long, hard look at its current emissions regulations and come to the conclusion that they are really, really bad. As a…

A member of the parliamentary environment group has renewed calls for elevating the Department of Environment to a ministry to give environment officials more political clout.

Speaking to…

Tech giant Google plans to collect and analyze data to help companies reduce their environmental footprints and make it all available through a new app.

Data on deaths each year and their causes is one of the most important means for assessing the effectiveness of a country’s health system. The figures help national authorities to evaluate public…

Iranian knowledge-based companies have so far managed to produce 35 different nano health products locally, said the director of Human Resources Development Working Group at Iran Nanotechnology…

There are 120,000 classrooms in the country which are in urgent need of renovation, said Morteza Raeesi, deputy minister of education.  “Our main concern is mud schools, half of which are…

Health authorities worldwide need to move much faster to prevent, detect and treat a “deadly epidemic” of tuberculosis if they are to reduce TB infections and deaths by 2030, the World Health…

Vice President for Women and Family Affairs Shahindokht Molaverdi held talks with Shamshad Akhtar Detho, the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and…

The number of addicts in Iran is not less than 2.5 million and if recreational drug users are taken into account the figure will increase to 4 million, said Ali Hashemi, chairman of the committee…

About 400-500 illegal Afghan immigrants are identified across Iran by the Law Enforcement Forces and returned to Afghanistan on a daily basis, said Afghan Minister of Refugees and Repatriations…

The Samen Pharmaceutical Corporation, active in the field of producing and importing dialysis devices, is planning to extend its Continuous Ambulatory Peritoneal Dialysis (CAPD) services to cover…

A National Food Composition Table has been compiled and published by the National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute (NNFTRI) affiliated to Shahid Beheshti University of Medical…

About 53.8% of women and 35.6% of men in Iran are not physically active, said Dr Ali Gol-Mohammadi, head of the Center for Control and Prevention of Non-communicable Diseases at Iran University of…

The proposal for a two-week school break during winter to help curb the temperature inversion phenomenon in Tehran, proposed by the Department of Environment, is not feasible according to the…

A person is 10 times safer taking public transport for a commute than driving. You are 90% safer if you take public transportation. The finding comes from a new study by the American Public…

More than 115,000 elementary or middle school (grades 7, 8, 9) and 200,000 high school (grades 10, 11, 12) students are not on the school rosters in the new academic year that started on September…