Incidence of goats and sheep afflicted with ovine rinderpest disease, or PPR, has been decreasing in Zanjan Province, according to Reza Ramezani, a public relations officer at the provincial…
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Plans to combat dust storms in the embattled Khuzestan Province will not progress, as long as adequate budget is not allocated, said a professor of geochemistry at Shahid Chamran University of…
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South Korea’s Hoesung Lee, selected on Tuesday to head the UN’s panel of climate scientists, favors wider pricing of carbon dioxide output to curb emissions of the greenhouse gases the group…
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Brands of household water filtration appliances will be reviewed in a joint project involving the Ministry of Health and Department of Environment.
“Quality of drinking water directly…
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A long-term study of animal populations around Chernobyl has found wildlife to be flourishing in the absence of human activity.
A team of scientists surveyed the human exclusion zone…
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Global warming has caused erratic weathers and is responsible for rising sea levels that threaten coastal communities. Now, a new study has revealed that climate change can also alter the shape of…
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Paris’s recent “day without cars” has been hailed as a resounding success after dramatic drops in levels of air and noise pollution were recorded in the city.
Mayor Anne Hidalgo said she…
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England has become the last nation in the UK to introduce charges for plastic bags to protect wildlife and reduce littering on streets.
From Monday, shoppers at all big stores have to pay…
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The population of Persian fallow deer has increased by 20% in recent years, the director of the provincial Department of Environment said.
According to the latest census conducted by the…
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A senior official at the Department of Environment has claimed that 350 square meters of forests and grasslands are destroyed every second in Iran. Hamid Gashtasb, director of Biomes and Regional…
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About 37,000 tons of waste, or 74% of all waste produced every day in Iran, are disposed improperly, which could lead to significant health and environmental problems, according to Houshang…
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Researchers at the Fuel, Combustion and Emission Group at Sharif University of Technology, in collaboration with experts at Tehran’s Air Quality Control Company, published a report on Saturday…
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Ocean Conservancy released a report last week that proposes a four-point solution to cutting ocean plastic waste by 45 percent by 2025 with the ultimate goal of eradicating the issue by 2035.
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Every single one of Iran’s 31 provinces suffers from drought to some extent, according to the director of National Drought Warning and Monitoring Center.
Speaking to ISNA, Shahrokh Fateh…
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The forest fires blanketing Malaysia, Singapore and large parts of Indonesia in choking haze are on track to become among the worst on record, NASA warns.
The region has suffered for years…
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An official has dismissed reports that wastewater from Kish Island has been seeping into the Persian Gulf and sought to clarify “the misunderstanding”. Head of Kish Island’s Department of…
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India says it will produce 40% of its energy from sources other than fossil fuels by 2030 and reduce the intensity of its carbon dioxide emissions by roughly 33-35%.
The country’s highly…
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Management programs for Hamoun Wetlands in Sistan-Baluchestan Province and Choghakhor and Helleh wetlands in Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari Province are expected to be ready by next month, increasing the…
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met US President Barack Obama before concluding his visit to the country.
Obama said after the meeting that much of the discussion had focused on the…
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As part of a partnership with Aclima, a startup that designs environmental sensor networks, Google launched a pilot program in July to outfit its Street View vehicles in Denver, Colorado, with…
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A new initiative to stop the spread of deforestation in Central Africa was launched on Tuesday in New York, marking the latest global push to protect the world’s shrinking rainforests.
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The nomination of Hamoun Wetlands to UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere Program was approved in a meeting of the National Committee, the head of ECO Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technology said…
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Two plans aimed at checking shifting sands and dust storms around Lake Urmia are halfway to completion, according to the head of Urmia Department of Environment.
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Iran will expand cooperation with regional countries to help fight marine pollution and algal bloom, according to the aquatic biomes deputy at the Department of Environment.
Speaking to…
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Iran has been unable to meet its environmental targets outlined in the country’s Fifth Five-Year Economic Development Plan (2010-16), according to a member of the parliamentary environmental…
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