As of Friday, motorists with cars built before 1997 and motorcycles built before 2000 are no longer able to drive them in Paris during daylight hours on weekdays. Fines will be handed out for…
Environment
Iran’s Department of Environment has refused to issue permits for the construction of four new dams in the country.
Anyone who has driven on the long, winding road that connects Karaj in Alborz Province to Chalous in Mazandaran will attest to the fact that Karaj River is the most attractive feature of the…
A number of invasive plant species have been growing in Tehran’s urban ecosystem, threatening the native flora and raising the risk of diseases communicated through animal products.
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Britain’s exit from the European Union may erode the bloc’s leadership role in fighting climate change and stymie crucial efforts to set more ambitious targets for cutting greenhouse gases,…
Work has begun on the construction of artificial water holes in the Kavir Markazi Protected Zone in Varamin County to alleviate the effects of the hot summer and drought on the animals inhabiting…
The Department of Environment has denied claims by a Tehran City Council member that it monitors the euthanasia of stray dogs carried out by Tehran Municipality.
The murders of three park rangers last week in two separate incidents has compelled both environmental officials and activists to demand better legal protection for park wardens.
For the last 15 years, Spix’s Macaw has been presumed extinct in the wild. That’s until one of the blue-feathered parrots was spotted and caught on video flying near the town of Curaca, Brazil.…
As part of a one-year plan to tackle pollution in large cities, a 22-trillion-rial ($6.3 billion) fund has been allocated to upgrade the public transport fleet in metropolises like Tehran.
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Premature deaths from air pollution will continue to rise till 2040 unless changes are made to the way the world uses and produces energy, the International Energy Agency said on Monday.
The only way to oil the wheels of commerce and development in the semidesert Makran coastal strip along the Persian Gulf is siphoning large amounts of water from the Gulf of Oman, according to a…
Video footage and photos of wild animals in a zoo in Shiraz, Fars Province, that are subjected to severe mismanagement and poor living conditions, have been making the rounds on the social media,…
Treated wastewater from the city of Tabriz in East Azarbaijan Province will be used to help restoration efforts underway at the embattled Urmia Lake.
Based on plans, a pipeline, which is…
The only remaining circus to comply with the Department of Environment’s ban on the use and abuse of animals by circus has stopped its animal shows, effectively making Iran one of a handful of…
Of all the factors Britons considered when they voted on whether to stay or leave the European Union, the environment was probably low on their list.
But now that Brexit is a reality, the…
Four Tehran hospitals, which have put off managing medical waste despite warnings from the Tehran office of the Department of Environment will be prosecuted unless they address the problems before…
Patrolling the Geno Biosphere Reserve in Hormozgan Province on Friday was supposed to be a routine affair for Mohammad Dehqani and Parviz Hormozi. But fate had other plans.
While driving…
The city of Los Angeles in the US state of California has enough water to make it through three more years of drought without continuing state-mandated water cuts, according to the LA Department…
To fill a legal vacuum that has contributed to animal cruelty in Iran, officials at the Department of Environment, in collaboration with jurists and academics, are working on a detailed, single-…
A jaguar has been shot dead shortly after it was used in an Olympic torch relay at a zoo in the Brazilian city of Manaus, the army said.
The female jaguar escaped its handlers after the…
Crop yields will fall within the next decade due to climate change unless immediate action is taken to speed up the introduction of new and improved varieties, experts have warned.
The government is reviewing a scheme proposed by authorities of Alborz Province and approved by the Department of Environment to adopt a two-day weekend (Thursday and Friday) in the air pollution-…
European Union greenhouse gas emissions fell in 2014 to their lowest level since 1990, although the bloc said more diesel vehicles had increased carbon dioxide on its roads and significant cuts…
According to Iran’s Meteorological Organization, dust storms that have battered large areas of the country recently are expected to persist until the end of summer.
