With growing concern over bottled water companies extracting water from local Canadian wells, an environmental organization is urging the Ontario Liberals to deny a permit for Nestle Waters.
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In a move that has appealed to environmentalists and water experts alike, the Council of Ministers on Sunday approved the allocation of $500 million from the National Development Fund to upgrade…
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Scientists on Thursday set the outlines of a report on how to restrict global warming to a limit agreed last year by world leaders—even though the temperature threshold is at risk of being…
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A scheme drawn up by the Department of Environment to add environmental education to the curricula of schools nationwide could go into effect as early as September 22 (beginning of the new…
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In a move that has raised eyebrows across the political, religious and legal spectra, the Supreme Court of Iran has ceded 5,000 hectares of the lush Caspian Hyrcanian forests to the Endowment and…
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The number of renovated taxis in Tehran reached 3,000 following Tehran Municipality’s move to offer low-interest loans to cabbies in cooperation with Bank Shahr (Persian for City Bank).
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White cloth masks are ubiquitous in many Asian cities where urban commuters must daily battle significant pollution, but new research suggests the masks offer limited protection from harmful…
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The amount of mazut used by power plants across the country has dropped to 9%—down from 43% in 2013—and is expected to reach zero by the end of the current Iranian year (ends March 20, 2017).…
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Hamoun Wetlands in Sistan-Baluchestan Province was flooded with 20 million cubic meters of water on Saturday, about a month after the same amount of water was released into the imperiled wetlands…
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Tehran Municipality has intensified measures to combat whiteflies, as the irritating insects return to the Iranian capital, according to Tehran’s top environment official.
Speaking to ISNA…
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An official at the Department of Environment said green taxes levied on polluting industrial units should be paid to the department, not Tehran municipalities.
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An Indian startup has found a good use for air pollution: Ink for artists. The brainchild of an Indian collective known as Graviky Labs, Air Ink is a line of pens whose ink is made of recycled air…
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A proposal for Iran’s cooperation with Pakistan and the regional office of the International Union for Conservation of Nature to protect the ecosystem of Gwadar Bay will soon be finalized.
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Residents of a coastal village in Alaska being threatened by rising sea levels and thawing permafrost voted on Tuesday on whether they should relocate to a new area.
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The government of President Hassan Rouhani has submitted the Paris Agreement Bill to the Majlis for its ratification.
The bill outlines the government’s measures to reduce greenhouse gas…
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To exert more control over their operations, the Department of Environment has instructed all zoos, bird gardens and animal care centers to bring their activities up to the national standards and…
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Jamaica’s Minister of Science, Energy and Technology Andrew Wheatley has welcomed the move by British billionaire and head of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, to acquire Blue Mountain…
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A forest fire broke out in Alvar-e Garmsiri District located in Jurvand Village, Khuzestan Province, on August 10, due to a family dispute, which took more than two days to extinguish.
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A group of environmental experts and academics have written an open letter to the country’s high-ranking officials urging them to scrap a contentious plan to transfer water from Caspian Sea in the…
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Hot and stagnant weather is making this summer one of the worst for smog in Southern California, USA. The area has not had so many bad air days or had these levels of ozone pollution since 2009,…
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The Earth is so hot this year that a limit for global warming agreed by world leaders at a climate summit in Paris just a few months ago is in danger of being breached.
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Three groups of California’s rare island fox were removed from the US endangered species list on Thursday, and a fourth was downgraded to threatened, marking the fastest recovery yet for an…
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Japan-based JFE Engineering will lay the groundwork in Iran for the commercialization of waste-to-energy plants, which generate electricity from the heat produced by the incineration of garbage.…
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Following agreements between the Department of Environment and the judiciary, legal cases concerning the environment will be referred to special courts whose judges are well versed in…
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Without increasing tariffs, management of water consumption will remain elusive, an official at the National Water and Wastewater Company said.
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