Environment

A pilot tourism project will soon start in Rouchoun Wildlife Refuge in Ashouradeh, the only Iranian island in the Caspian Sea, said an official in the Department of Environment.

In October…

Massoumeh Ebtekar, the head of Iran’s Department of Environment, has again voiced her department’s opposition to any mining activity in the D19 mineral zone.

The mineral zone in Yazd…

Tehran’s Governorate has declared that the use of grass in the capital’s green spaces is not prohibited while urging the municipality to consider less water-intensive alternatives.

Iran’s top environmental official has called on the United Nations to cooperate with Iran in achieving its Sustainable Development Goals.

Massoumeh Ebtekar, a vice president and the head of…

A decade ago, California vowed to dramatically slash greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.

With the United States’ most populous state is on track to meet that target, Governor Jerry Brown on…

A cycling event scheduled for Tuesday in Tehran to celebrate “Car-Free Tuesdays” was abruptly cancelled due to reasons that have since been denied by the Department of Environment.

Melting glaciers and bleached corals: We hear about them a lot when it comes to the effects of global warming on our oceans.

But other impacts are not so visible—like whole species of fish…

The proposal to change the designation of 347 hectares of Tehran’s lands from commercial zone to public green space was endorsed by Tehran Municipality’s Article 5 Commission on Monday.

The…

Prehistoric animal fossils, discovered during a road construction project in 2012 in Lorestan Province (in western Iran), was unveiled on Wednesday. Anna Esmaeili, an archeologist at the…

Thanks to the careful planning that has gone toward reviving Urmia Lake, farmers around the water body did not have to change their livelihoods and seek alternative sources of income.

The giant panda is officially no longer an endangered species, with officials announcing over the weekend that it has been downgraded from “Endangered” to “Vulnerable”, following a 17% increase in…

The wood industry around the threatened Caspian Hyrcanian forests in the north shows no sign of slowing down, much to the dismay of Iran’s top environment official who admits lacking jurisdiction…

Following a directive issued by the High Council for Environment in official Persian newspapers on August 8, Abr Forest in Shahroud, Semnan Province, was legally designated as a protected area,…

Pressure is growing on the UK government to ratify the Paris climate change deal immediately. A spokesman for Prime Minister Theresa May told the BBC the UK would ratify “as soon as possible”, but…

Based on a government mandate, all domestically-produced vehicles must be Euro 5-compliant starting next year (March 21, 2017), while older cars will have to maintain their Euro 4 compliance.

Countermeasures against the swarm of locusts that have overrun Hamoun County in Sistan-Baluchestan Province have started on Monday, said a senior official at the provincial office of…

A senior lawmaker has voiced his support for a bill aimed at banning any exploitation of forest resources in the country for 10 years to give them time for rehabilitation.

Pacific island states and countries failed on Friday to strike a deal to protect shrinking supplies of tuna and adopt cutbacks following a regional conference, sparking condemnation from…

China’s Parliament on Saturday ratified the Paris Agreement on climate change, which could help put the pact into force by as early as the end of the year.

The standing committee of China’s…

A swarm of locusts that has invaded Hamoun County in Sistan-Baluchestan Province and its renowned wetlands since late August has compelled local authorities to step up their game to control and…

The Department of Environment is open to the idea of importing water from the likes of Azerbaijan and Tajikistan as long as the plans are environmentally viable.

Iran’s Sharif University and the University of Melbourne in Australia have agreed to set up a center on water research in a bid to use Australia’s expertise in battling the water crisis to save…

Iran and France have signed an action plan to expand bilateral cooperation and curb environmental problems plaguing the Mideast country, especially in the energy and water sectors.

Increasingly polluted rivers in Africa, Asia and Latin America pose a disease risk to more than 300 million people and threaten fisheries and farming in many countries, a UN report warned Tuesday…

Khuzestan Province’s top environment official has said Ahvaz and Mahshahr’s struggle with soil pollution is “worrying” and must be addressed as soon as possible.