Iran gears up to battle desert locusts
Financial Tribune – Groups of desert locusts have reappeared in southeast Iran. Despite intensive control operations, hopper bands and swarms continue to…
Environment
No silver lining for Tehran smog
Financial Tribune – Air pollution has become a source of serious concern to the Iranian capital’s residents in the absence of workable…
Soil erosion costs Iran $56b in covert damage p.a.
Financial Tribune – About 2 billion tons of soil are eroded in Iran annually, costing the country a covert damage of $56…
Tehran Municipality resorts to failed plans to curb Tehran air pollution
Financial Tribune – As air pollution in Tehran has worsened over the past several days, urban managers held an emergency meeting on…
Iran’s DoE discounts gasoline rationing scheme
Financial Tribune – Kalantari: The decision to ration gasoline for private cars, cabs …has nothing to do with the torpid campaign against…
Officials close schools in Iranian capital because of smog
AP — Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reports that authorities in the capital Tehran have decided to close down all kindergartens, schools…
Climate change adding to Iran’s worsening water woes
Financial Tribune – Iran’s water deficit is about 130 billion cubic meters. In the best case scenario and even with higher rainfall…
Revival of Lake Urmia cause for guarded optimism
Financial Tribune – Measures taken to revive Lake Urmia in recent years helped the flow of 4.6 billion cubic meters of water…
The death and life of Iran’s Lake Urmia
NPR | James Doubek: Iran’s Lake Urmia was once the second-largest saltwater lake in the world, covering more than 2,000 square miles…
Elementary schools closed in Iranian capital amid high pollution levels
Press TV – All elementary schools in and around the Iranian capital Tehran have been suspended for the last day of the…
Toxic smog puts Tehran on alert
Financial Tribune – Outdoor physical exercises in all school grades have been cancelled until Friday (Nov. 15), as the sprawling city experienced…
Green energy helping cut gas consumption, greenhouse gases
Financial Tribune – Renewable energy sources in Iran generated over 4.3 billion kilowatt hours of electricity since 2009. If the same amount…
Cloud seeding to help ease water crisis in Iran
Financial Tribune – Despite higher precipitation in October, which was 33% more compared to last year same time, average rainfall was lower…
Tehran air quality status moderate in October
Financial Tribune – Charts regularly published by Tehran Air Quality Control Company show that all through October, Air Quality Index hovered between…
$3.4m to help ease air pollution in Isfahan
Financial Tribune – The government has allocated 400 billion rials ($3.4 million) to curb the growing air pollution and smog in the…
Urmia Lake water level improves
MNA – In the 7th month of the current Iranian calendar year, Mehr, (starting September 23, 2019), water level in Urmia Lake,…
Iran Foreign Ministry offers to help address climate issues
Financial Tribune – Iran’s Foreign Ministry is ready to offer diplomatic aid to help efforts aimed at controlling climate change and addressing…
Iran’s Urmia Lake enlarging compared to last year
IRNA – Head of Lake Urmia Restoration Project Farhad Sarkhosh said that the extent of Lake Urmia has increased by 1,100 square…
Tehranis exposed to more polluted air in September
Financial Tribune – The residents of Iranian capital breathed in more toxic particles in September, as air quality deteriorated slightly compared with…
WHO assists Iran to enhance health system resilience against floods
United Nations Iran – World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Medical Education (MoHME) of the Islamic…
Air pollution annually costs Tehran residents $2.6 billion
Financial Tribune – Air pollution annually costs Tehran residents $2.6 billion, an official with the Department of Environment says. According to Behzad…
Flocks of migratory birds came to winter in northern Iran
Tehran Times – The first group of migratory birds landed in northern Mazandaran province to spend the winter, director for the provincial…
World Ozone Day: Iran well rid of ozone-depleting emissions
MNA – Iran has reduced 9,800 tons of ozone-destroying emissions over the past 26 years as part of its commitment to the…
Iran: Call for national ban on polluting cars
Financial Tribune – The Interior Ministry has called for a national ban on dilapidated cars that contribute to the worsening air pollution…
85% of Iran’s population affected by prolonged drought: official
Tehran Times – Over 85 percent of the country’s total population is affected by prolonged drought over the past decade, Sadeq Ziaeian,…
Environmental education to be included in pre-primary schools
Tehran Times – Environmental education will be included in the country’s pre-primary schools’ curriculum in the new school year (beginning September 23)…
Azna snow tunnel added to national heritage list
Tehran Times – Iran has added Azna snow tunnel, which is one of the most spectacular landscapes in western Lorestan province, to…
Iran ready for cooperation on fighting sand and dust storms: FRWO head
MNA – Head of Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization (FRWO) has expressed Iran’s readiness to cooperate with regional countries in the…
Bill on protection of animals brought before Majlis
Tehran Times – A long-awaited bill on protection of animals which had been proposed over 3 years ago was finally brought to…
Special working groups to be formed on stray dog population control
Tehran Times – Four special working groups are being established to control stray dogs’ population in Tehran, director of environment and sustainable…
New plan replaces banned exploitation of endangered Hyrcanian Forest
Tehran Times – A new plan on sustainable management of Hyrcanian Forest and natural resources has been prepared; through which exploitation of…
Lake Urmia desiccation high
Financial Tribune – Close to 1.6 billion cubic meters of water evaporated from Urmia Lake in the last 90 days, head of…
Extinguished fire reignites burning Arasbaran forest
Tehran Times – While efforts have been made to put out the wildfire erupted in northwestern Arasbaran forest, it reignited and burnt…
Arasbaran forest fire put out after 4 days
IRNA – Firefighters put out extensive forest fire in Arasbaran forest in East Azarbaijan province, northwestern Iran, after four days campaign on…
‘Govt., judiciary slow to submit bill on protection of animals’
Tehran Times – The government and the judiciary have been slow to submit a bill proposed over 3 years ago (to the…
Hamoun wetland restoration plan prepared
Tehran Times – Although rains have drenched Hamoun wetland after two decades of dryness, it is getting dried again due to high…
Persian lions at Tehran zoo introduced to live together
Tehran Times – The lion couple kept in captivity at Tehran Zoological Garden for reproduction of the endangered species have been introduced…
Iran, 16 nations warned of day when taps run dry
Financial Tribune – Followed by Qatar, Israel and Lebanon, Iran is ranked 4th on the list of countries with extremely high water…
Dust storm sends hundreds to hospital in Iran
IRNA – Some 465 people were taken to hospitals and medical centers in southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan due to complications caused…
National congress on wildlife diseases, conservation to be held
Tehran Times – Tehran will play host to the first national congress on wildlife diseases and conservation which will be held in…