For the first time in Iran, GPS tracking collars have been attached to six animals in Qatrouyeh National Park and Bahram-e Gour Protected Area in Fars Province to determine the habitat of Persian…
Environment
More than a quarter of people hugely overestimate the number of tigers living in the wild, a survey has revealed.
While just over half (54%) of the 1,000 British people quizzed in poll for…
About half a million vehicles lacking technical inspection stickers have been impounded in Tehran, according the city’s top traffic police official.
Speaking to ISNA, Brigadier General…
An environmental official has urged the parliament, particularly a lawmaker from Sistan-Baluchestan Province, not to single out the Department of Environment as the only state body responsible for…
A young conscript who lost a leg while trying to save a dog has been offered a job at the Department of Environment. Seyyed Mohammad Bakhtar, a 19-year-old who saved a dog trapped in barbed wire…
The rapid growth in wing length of a common Western Australian bird has been linked to climate change, according to a study released on Monday.
A claim by a forest expert recently about the death of 40 million boxwood trees in the past decade has been denied by the Forests, Range and Watershed Management Organization.
Speaking on a…
The Urmia Lake Restoration Program was set to receive nearly half of its budget for the current Iranian year on Saturday, an official with the program said.
Tehran air quality has not seen any improvement despite the launch of the Low Emission Zone scheme.
Vahid Hosseini, director of Tehran's Air Quality Control Company, maintains that such…
Tehran's air quality, which deteriorated on Saturday following a short respite on Friday, is expected to last until Monday morning. Despite wind speed picking up, it will not be enough to have an…
China will slap a total ban on the domestic ivory trade within a year, the government announced on Friday, shutting the door to the world's biggest end-market for poached ivory.
Madrid’s City Hall has unveiled plans to boost its green credentials and set up gardens on the rooftops of buses and bus stops.
Despite alarming pollution levels, Delhi has seen a surge in private vehicles, while public transport is in decline, environmentalists have warned.
They quoted government figures showing…
Ecotourism, if managed properly, can help protect the fragile ecosystem of Ashouradeh and prepare the ground for sustainable development in the small but ecologically-diverse island, according to…
Iran’s environmental scene has witnessed both good and bad developments in 2016.
Wildfires raging through forests in summer, the persistent air pollution choking metropolises and dust…
The cheetah’s dramatic decline has prompted calls for the animal’s status to be downgraded from “vulnerable” to “endangered” on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of…
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Despite the claims of officials about the implementation of Low Emission Zone, the scheme has not yet entered the phase where it can alleviate Tehran's air pollution crisis.
It has…
The parliament has opposed the controversial plan to transfer water from Caspian Sea to the drought-hit central plateau after long debates over the issue. Critics have long argued that pumping…
A taxi-driver in Some’eh Sara, Gilan Province, who had tethered a dog to the back of his car and dragged it across the streets, was arrested and sentenced to two months in prison for animal abuse…
China’s Parliament passed a law on Sunday that will levy specific environmental protection taxes on industry for the first time from 2018, as part of a renewed focus on fighting the country’s…
Natural resources are deemed national treasures only when they benefit the country, and allowing the Caspian Hyrcanian forests some respite is key to ensuring it remains beneficial to Iran,…
London-based non-profit Carbon Disclosure Project released a report earlier this month—produced on behalf of 365 investors representing $22 trillion in funds—which analyzes data disclosures by 187…
Semnan’s 15-year struggle with drought is only worsening, with the province’s three main plains in dire need of water.
Iran will host a United Nations conference on dust and sand storms in the first half of the next Iranian year (starts March 21, 2017), according to an official at the Department of Environment.
Preschools and primary schools were closed in Tehran on Saturday, as the sprawling city experienced its second consecutive day of dangerously high pollutant levels.
For the second day in a…
