A recent study has revealed grim news for the world's raptors—an iconic group of birds consisting of hawks, falcons, kites, eagles, vultures and owls.
After analyzing the status of all…
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Stopping elephant poachers and smugglers before they kill by using detective work is the aim of tenBoma, a project established by the International Fund of Animal Welfare, in Kenya. TenBoma…
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The latest in a series of workshops on biosafety was held by the Research Center of Environment and Sustainable Development on Monday for experts at the Department of Environment.
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Measures adopted in Mahdishahr, Semnan Province, to protect the threatened deer species against the immoral hunting technique of deer calling have been fruitful with no casualties reported last…
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Hurricane Florence is on track to hit the US East Coast as a major storm later this week.
Florence was about 1,100 km southeast of Bermuda as of 11 p.m. ET (3:00 GMT) on Sunday. The…
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A giant 610-meter long contraption to clean up plastic from the Pacific Ocean was launched off the coast of San Francisco on Sunday.
Dubbed System 001, this giant sea sieve is the…
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Iran has introduced four cities to be inscribed on the Ramsar Convention's list of internationally recognized wetland cities, said the deputy head of the Department of Environment's Habitats…
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A magnet motor production line in Isfahan Province was officially inaugurated on Thursday as part of an agreement signed between the Department of Environment, the Defense Ministry and Isfahan's…
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Iran's Department of Environment has allocated about $200,000 for the enhancement of environmental protection infrastructures at the Golestan National Park.
The technical…
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Following an international cave exploration mission that recently came to a close in Qizhalan Cave in Kermanshah Province, the geological formation was named the third deepest cave in the…
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Thai fishermen and laborers whose livelihoods are threatened by rising sea levels kicked off an international day of protests in Bangkok on Saturday, where key UN talks are attempting to breathe…
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A massive 6.1 magnitude earthquake has struck the southern Philippines, the US Geological Survey said. The quake hit the east coast of the island of Mindanao at 8.16 a.m. BST (3.15 p.m. local…
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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…
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A large haul of smuggled birds was detected and seized in Bushehr Province on early this week by the protection unit of the Department of Environment.
According to Hossein Delshab, head…
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A tiny Alaska Native village has experienced a boom in tourism in recent years as polar bears spend more time on land than on diminishing Arctic sea ice.
More than 2,000 people visited…
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One of Japan’s busiest airports remained closed indefinitely after the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in at least 25 years flooded a runway and other facilities while damaging other…
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Norway's $1 trillion sovereign wealth fund wants companies in which it invests to follow stricter guidelines on global sustainability and strengthen efforts to combat plastic pollution of the…
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A valuable and rare Blandford's fox has been recently sighted wandering around Yakhab Wildlife Sanctuary in Isfahan Province. The animal was caught on camera by park rangers while patrolling the…
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A trial begins next week for a man charged with trafficking thousands of protected turtles captured in New Jersey, an unlikely hotbed of wildlife poaching that has helped supply China with a…
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Hawaii is gearing for another hurricane, which is unlikely to trigger downpours as heavy as a recent storm in the islands.
Hurricane Norman is currently a powerful…
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Iran’s intended contributions to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change contain multiple defects which are likely to have…
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As part of a plan to renovate the ageing commercial transportation fleet, a sum of €1.4 billion ($1.6 billion) has so far been allocated to replace 35,000 dilapidated vehicles with new ones.
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There is no more available capacity to implement new water supply schemes in the capital and the only viable strategy is to manage the demand, a water expert at Tehran Regional Water Authority…
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This year, September 1 was observed as the "Vulture Awareness Day" across the globe. In India, the population number of vulture species has fallen by over 95% in less than two decades.
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The third phase of the Conservation of Asiatic Cheetah Project, whose draft plan is soon to be reviewed by the Department of Environment and the United Nations Development Program, aims to adopt…
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