An official at the Iran Meteorological Organization has dismissed earlier reports of a possible tropical storm hitting Iran’s southern shore next week.
Ahad Vazifeh, director of IMO’s…
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating Exxon Mobil over how it factors in climate risk in pricing its projects.
The Wall Street Journal also reported that the…
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The Defense Ministry has signed an agreement to supply park rangers with weapons for five years, ensuring that the defenders of protected areas will face no shortage of supplies for at least the…
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More than 80% of the country’s natural ecosystems are on the verge of total destruction as a result of excessive cattle grazing, says an official at the Department of Environment.
Farhad…
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Official statistics show Tehran’s air quality is improving, but a lot more still needs to be done to reduce the concentration of pollutants in the Iranian capital’s air.
Experts say three…
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The Department of Environment has proposed to the Ministry of Education to close Tehran’s schools for two weeks in winter to curb air pollution.
Temperature inversion is a weather…
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A new report into the state of wildlife in Wales has revealed that one in 14 species is heading for extinction. Leading experts from 50 wildlife and research organizations have found that 57% of…
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Britain has given the go-ahead for the first new nuclear power plant for decades, a decision which does not sit well with environmental groups.
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Former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has outed himself as a climate skeptic, joining the ranks of politicians ridiculed for their view that the planet’s accelerated warming is not caused by…
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Iran’s top weather authority has issued a tropical storm warning for the country’s southern coasts, saying that those regions be ready to evacuate on short notice.
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A comprehensive plan that might give Tehran its best chance at effectively combating the whitefly will be finalized before the summer of 2017.
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Paband National Park in Mazandaran Province has been equipped with a new ranger station to step up the security of the protected area’s fragile ecosystem. “The well-equipped facility allows…
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Iran’s annual water deficit is about 5.7 billion cubic meters, which officials hope to compensate by 2021.
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Hundreds of people have been evacuated in southern Taiwan and China has issued a red alert, as the region braces for the impact of the strongest storm of the year.
Super Typhoon Meranti is…
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Locusts’ invasion of 6,000 hectares of Hamoun County in Sistan-Baluchestan Province and its wetlands has come to an end, according to a provincial official.
Since late August, a swarm of…
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About eight Asiatic cheetahs have died in road accidents in Yazd Province in the past 10 years.
While at first glance the statistic may not seem all that worrying, but it should be a cause…
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Iran and Austria signed another memorandum of understanding centered on environmental issues late Tuesday in Vienna, seven months after inking an agreement in Tehran.
Massoumeh Ebtekar, the…
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Campaigners have criticized the UK government for rejecting calls by MPs for greater action on air pollution. Describing air pollution as a “public health emergency”, MPs had told ministers in…
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A new resolution to ban all domestic ivory sales has been passed by a global group of conservationists and governments.
The measure, adopted on Saturday at a major summit in Hawaii, aims to…
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For a majority of Iranians, the end of summer heralds the beginning of the academic year. But for the small mountainous province of Lorestan, the end of summer marks the beginning of the…
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Qeshm Free Zone Organization will soon launch what it calls the Middle East Biodiversity Conservation Fund to provide support for researchers and specialists in the field.
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Diplomats of developing countries may struggle to attend United Nations climate meetings unless funding for their travel is significantly increased. That is the warning in the UN climate body’s…
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The average national temperature for autumn is expected to go up by 1.5 degrees Celsius this year, while average rainfall will see a 10-20% decline, the director of National Center for Drought and…
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Water shortage has forced a number of rice farmers in Fars Province to once again illegally divert water from Kor River to their paddies, bringing about the demise of the aquatic species…
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Britain’s native dormouse has declined by more than a third since the year 2000, according to a new report by wildlife charity, the People’s Trust for Endangered Species.
The State of…
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