The number of people who die annually from air pollution in the world is 6 times the number of people who die from malaria and 4 times those killed by AIDS. Air pollution is one of the important environmental risk factors, health ministry official Abbas Shahsavani has said. By reducing pollutants, the burden of related diseases including stroke,...

Financial Tribune - The government has allocated 400 billion rials ($3.4 million) to curb the growing air pollution and smog in the metropolis of Isfahan in central Iran, the head of Isfahan Disaster Management Organization said. According to Mansour Shisheh-Foroush, long talks have been held with urban managers and state administrators over the ...

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 ...

Financial Tribune - The Interior Ministry has called for a national ban on dilapidated cars that contribute to the worsening air pollution in Iranian cities. The ministry has asked Iran Traffic Police to devise a plan for extending the Air Pollution Reduction Scheme underway in the capital to the whole country. Almost all Iranian major cities ...

Tehran Times Traffic congestion in the traffic zones of Tehran has declined by 52 percent over the Iranian calendar month of Mordad (July 23-August 22) compared to the same period last year, according to the data released by the Tehran Traffic Control Company. A new traffic scheme went into effect on June 22 in the capital aiming to address persistent ...

MNA The Supreme Council for Environment Protection convened Tuesday evening under the chairmanship of President Hassan Rouhani. According to the official website of the Iranian Presidency 'President.ir', during the meeting, Department of Environment reported on the state of air pollution in different regions of the country, particularly in metropolitan ...

Tehran Times Some 4,000 to 5,000 of people residing in the countrys capital lose their lives per year due to air pollution, according to statistics published by the ministry of health. There are numerous vehicular trips per day in Tehran, which are the leading cause of air pollution in the capital, so that the air in Tehran is amongst the most ...

Financial Tribune - A new scheme for curbing traffic and air pollution in the central parts of Tehran has been planned, the director of Tehran Municipalitys Transport and Traffic Organization says. Mohsen Pourseyyyed Aqaei also told ISNA, The new scheme named Air Pollution Control will replace the odd-even rule on June 22, which was introduced in ...

Tasnim | Naser Jafari: Severe air pollution gripping the Iranian capital in recent days reached hazardous levels on Wednesday. Authorities have urged residents, the elderly and children in particular, to stay indoors.    

IFP - Researchers in Iran have designed and developed an artificial smart tree capable of absorbing large amounts of CO2 in order to clean the air and reduce air pollution. The air-cleaning apparatus functions like an artificial tree. It is capable of removing pollutants from the air in indoor places such as homes, offices and hospitals. In ...

IFP - Based on a contract signed on Monday, Japan is to run a joint project with Iran to decrease air pollution in the Iranian capital, Tehran. An official contract was signed on February 12, 2018, between Iran and Japan on the procurement of the equipment required to measure and analyze air pollutants in Tehran. The four-year agreement was ...

MNA Schools in Tehran will be closed on Tuesday due to severe air pollution. Tehrans Air Pollution Emergency Committee has announced as Tehrans air pollution continues, all schools in the capital city except in Firuzkuh, Damavand and Pardis will be closed on Tuesday. Tehran Governor Mohammad Hossein Moghimi chaired the committee's meeting. ...

Financial Tribune- Startups could help combat air pollution by developing sensors and control systems, the deputy for renewable energy at the Vice Presidency for Science and Technology said. Sirous Vatankhah Moqaddam added that such firms are vital for countering the suffocating air pollution conditions that have afflicted Iran's major cities for ...

Financial Tribune- Instead of expanding roads and highways in Irans metropolitan areas, there has to be an increase in the cost of utilizing the existing roads, tunnels, highways and parking spaces. If citizens pay for enjoying the benefits of leading an urban life, they will play an active role in solving the issues of traffic and air pollution,...

IRNA - Air pollution has prompted Iranian authorities to close schools in the capital Tehran and other major cities across the country. The capital's Air Quality Index (AQI) was reported at 149 and declared unhealthy for the sensitive groups of population, including the elderly, children, pregnant women and people with heart problems. Schools ...

IFP - Despite efforts by Irans Department of Environment (DoE) and anti-air pollution campaigns, the use of bicycles has failed to gain widespread popularity across the country. However, the publics positive reaction to a recently launched challenge has raised hopes to this end. While bicycle, as a cheap and environment-friendly means ...

FNA- Iranian and Japanese environment officials in a meeting in Tehran signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to boost their cooperation on harnessing dust particles and dust storms. The MoU was signed between Iran's Department of Environment and Japan's Ministry of Environment in the Iranian capital on Tuesday. As per MoU, the Japanese environment ...

Financial Tribune- Air pollution costs Iran about $20 billion annually, which can be used to purchase 20,000 subway cars or establish 140 power plants, 60 stadiums with a 50,000-seat capacity and 900 60-hectare parks, the chairman of the Iranian Parliaments environment group said. In fact, air pollution costs are three to four times more than the ...

Press TV- The Iranian capital is once again suffering from poor air quality and countermeasures such as the closure of schools do not seem to have helped much in alleviatingthe problem. Despite the closure of kindergartens and elementary schools on Saturday, air pollution stubbornly remained at an alarming level in Tehran. This is while schools ...

MNA| Maryam Azish: Irans pollution, a decades-old problem, has progressively increased in recent years, claiming several lives each year and damaging healthy lungs. Economic activists believes that the implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has opened a new horizon to promotion of economic situation in Iran and has paved ...