Environmental Problems in Iran

Tehran's City Council passed on Tuesday the general principles of a bill on modifying the system of collecting and disposing of special waste in the capital. 

Special waste is a…

The Department of Environment announced plans to install 16 dust monitoring stations in southern and southeastern regions of the country.

The Iranian national workgroup to combat dust storms has put it on its agenda for this year to prepare a joint comprehensive scheme in cooperation with Syria and Iraq under the oversight of the…

Unless urgent action is taken by the government, Bisheh-Dalan wetland in Lorestan Province will soon die out, a report by Mehr News Agency has warned. 

Efforts on saving water within the drainage basin of the long-disturbed Lake Urmia are reaching the target, with a 32% decrease in water usage, a senior water authority in West Azarbaijan Said…

A scheme to control dust storms in Tehran Province has received the green light from the Workgroup to Reduce Tehran's Air Pollution with three projects given top priority. 

Khuzestan's governor general expressed satisfaction with the progress on a tree-planting scheme to combat the dust storms that regularly hit southern provinces, but called for measures to…

The density of dust particles in various areas of Sistan, north of Sistan-Baluchestan Province, was more than 20 times more than the acceptable level on Friday. 

Statistics provided by the Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization show that the area of wildfires in forests and woodlands during the first quarter of the current Iranian year,…

In line with efforts to curtail gas emissions, Shahid Hasheminejad Gas Processing Company curbed the release of 46,000 tons of carbon dioxide by developing the second phase of flare gas recovery…

Eliminating an unpleasant stench plaguing the road to Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport is high on the agenda of the Department of Environment's provincial office in Tehran.

Summer temperatures are expected to continue rising in the coming days, with some provinces forecast to see temperatures well above the 30-year average.

A weather expert associated the recent rise in air pollution in the capital Tehran to the higher ozone levels due to summer heat, dismissing social media reports that it poses a collective,…

Schemes to combat dust storms in Iran will not produce the desired results unless all aspects of the projects are given due attention, an agriculture expert has emphasized in a recent article.…

Head of the Department of Environment Isa Kalantari warned about the environmental implications of a national food self-sufficiency policy, singling out an escalating water crisis. 

A waste-to-energy plant is expected to come on stream in the city of Noshahr, Mazandaran Province, in three months.

“Mazandaran Province produces about 3,000 tons of trash per day,…

A draft bill on the global limit for sulphur in fuel oil used by ships has been recently prepared and proposed to the Cabinet for approval.

As part of a drive to protect the environment and curb air pollution, the Comprehensive Monitoring Office at the Department of Environment has reached a deal with the National Iranian Oil…