Financial Tribune - Successive governments have done nothing to improve the quality of the air, especially in mega cities, and expecting the deteriorating situation to change overnight would be naive The determination of the Department of Environment to fight air pollution notwithstanding, the issue is too complicated to be addressed in the short-...

Press TV - Iran is electrifying around 10 million motorbikes and scooters as a first step in its nation-wide efforts to fight fuel-related pollution in large cities. An Iranian deputy energy minister said on Monday that the large-scale electrification scheme would reduce fuel costs incurred on owners of the motorbikes and scoters in Iran by 10 times ...

Financial Tribune - Irans Vice Presidential Office for Science and Technology and the Department of Environment has initiated a joint project to use high-tech innovations to curb environmental pollutions. Accordingly, the two institutions have called on local startups and knowledge-based companies to introduce their capabilities and products that ...

Financial Tribune - Schools have closed down in several cities for days, hospitals are full with patients suffering from respiratory conditions, and tiny tots, the elderly and the sick have been told to stay at home because the air quality is very bad As air pollution moves from bad to worse in most mega cities, officials and relevant organizations ...

NPR | James Doubek: Iran's Lake Urmia was once the second-largest saltwater lake in the world, covering more than 2,000 square miles at its deepest in the 1990s. In the past two decades, the lake has dried out, shrinking at times to less than 20% of its average size. It's not a story of climate change, though that certainly contributed. It's a case ...

Financial Tribune - The residents of Iranian capital breathed in more toxic particles in September, as air quality deteriorated slightly compared with the corresponding month of last year, data released by Tehran Air Quality Control Company show. Charts published on TAQCCs website, Airnow.tehran.ir, show that in September, Tehrans residents were ...

Financial Tribune - Air pollution annually costs Tehran residents $2.6 billion, an official with the Department of Environment says. According to Behzad Ashjaei, breathing toxic emissions costs people in Tehran $2.6 billion per year, which means that air pollution inflicts a loss of $300 on each resident of the capital, he told ISNA on Sunday. The ...

MNA | Maryam Qarehgozlou: Since the beginning of autumn Iran has seen a great increase in precipitation amounts but endless speculations are running rampant as to whether the dry spell is over in the country or not. The data released on Monday by the National Drought Warning and Monitoring Center stated that the whole country received 120.2 millimeters ...

Financial Tribune - Namak (Salt) Lake in Qom Province is drying up and if it is not provided with enough water resources, nearly 25% of the countrys population will face the problem of dust storms soon, a lawmaker said. Ahmad Amirabadi, Qom representative in the Majlis, compared the lake with the crisis-inflicted Lake Urmia located between East ...

Bourse and Bazaar | AFP: Iran's efforts to counter worsening dust storms have been hampered by conflict in the region, the deputy head of the environment department said on Saturday. "We signed agreements with the Iraqi and Syrian governments in 2010 and 2011 to help them counter the source of dust storms," Masoud Tajrishi told a news conference ...

Financial Tribune- As 2017 was coming to a close the government of President Hassan Rouhani passed an amended version of auto import rules and the unexpected happened. Import tariffs on hybrid vehicles were increased significantly. The customs duty for such vehicles has been increased from 5% to 15-65%. This rule apparently sent a wrong message ...

Financial Tribune- Over a dozen islands have recently appeared in the middle of Karoun River in the southeastern Khuzestan Province, presaging an actual drought. Although the appearance of the islands is not entirely unusual or unexpected because of water scarcity afflicting the whole country, it shows the drastic drop in the amount of water entering ...

Financial Tribune- Indices used to calculate Tehrans air quality have not been updated for six years, as a result of which globally recognized high levels of pollution are considered healthy and do not call for precautionary measures. General specifications of air quality index (AQI) used in Tehran match those of international standards, but the ...

Xinhua -- Ultraviolet (UV) radiation around Urmia Lake in northwest of Iran has quadrupled over the past 10 years, putting life health at risk, Financial Tribune daily reported on Sunday. The increase in UV radiation, due to the decreasing water level, has a multitude of impacts on health including the result of cataract at its worst, Masoud Tajrishi,...

IRNA UN Resident Coordinator in Iran said on Tuesday that the solution of particle pollution problem is connected with the regional countries and international help is needed for that, as well. On a visit to Hurolazim Wetlands, Khuzestan Province, SW Iran, to examine technical solutions to particle problem, Gary Lewis said that water and international ...

IRNA Head of the Iranian Department of Environment (DoE) Masoumeh Ebtekar said on Monday that Iran is able to introduce successful plans, such as reforestation and lake revival, whose example is the Lake Urmia, to counter particles pollution. Talking in the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Combating Sand and Dust Storms (SDS),...

Financial Tribune- The head of the Department of Environments office in East Azarbaijan Province said efforts to restore Urmia Lake are progressing as scheduled. Speaking to ISNA, Hamid Qasemi also said on Monday that Urmia Lake will reach ecological balance by 2023. While 2023 was originally set as the year in which the imperiled lake would ...

IFP- An Iranian environmental official has put forward peoples demands from the re-elected government of Hassan Rouhani with regard to the environment. An Iranian environment official has, in an interview with IRNA, enumerated peoples demands from the re-elected president, Hassan Rouhani, in the field of environment. The following ...

IRNA -- Vice President and head of Environmental Protection Organization Massoumeh Ebtekar said on Sunday that 70 percent of particle pollution originate from foreign countries. Ebtekar called for proper interaction with other countries as well as domestic planning to control it. 'The government has put the issue on its agenda and they try to ...

Al-Monitor l Zahra Alipour: A massive influx of dust storms in recent weeks has once again paralyzed Irans southwestern province of Khuzestan. The province has been reeling from dust storms since the early 2000s, a problem which often leads to schools and government offices being closed, power, water and internet outages as well as residents being ...