About 80 million cubic meters of water will flow into Lake Urmia during the Iranian month of Esfand (February 20 – March 19), bringing the lake’s total inflow during the fourth quarter of the…
Environment
People still opt to buy conventional, highly-polluting vehicles in favor of more ecofriendly alternatives, such as hybrid and electric vehicles mainly because of their affordability.
The number of elephants being killed for their ivory has stabilized but overall species numbers have continued to decline.
Data produced by the Convention on International Trade in…
The 15th International Environment Exhibition ends its four-day run on Thursday, concluding what many say was an improvement on previous editions but noting that it still has room for improvement…
Tehran may be in deep trouble in less than nine years if the capital’s growing demand for water is not checked, according to Khosro Erteqaei, managing director of the Tehran Water Authority.
UK retailers are on course to meet a host of environmental targets tackling food waste, carbon emissions, and water use by 2020 after a “pivotal year” in which the UN’s Sustainable Development…
Sharif University of Technology hosted the EnerWat 2016 on March 1-3, a conference on the relationship of water and energy.
The event provided a platform for international hydrology experts…
The Department of Environment is trying to launch a credit line for industries to encourage them to develop eco-friendly technologies, according the head of the department, Massoumeh Ebtekar.
Located at the meeting point of Iran’s largest deserts — Lut and Kavir, Yazd Province has always had a problem with water, or lack thereof.
When it comes to dust storms, there only seems to be bad news for oil-rich Khuzestan Province.
The embattled southwestern province has roughly 400,000 hectares of barren land that…
The 15th International Environment Exhibition opened at the Tehran International Permanent Fairgrounds on Monday.
Cambodia’s prime minister on the weekend called for a bigger effort to curb illicit timber trade, saying he had ordered military police to fire rockets from helicopters if they saw illegal loggers…
About 120 tons of ivory will be burnt at the Nairobi National Park on April 30, the largest stockpile to be destroyed at once by any country.
This will be the climax of a summit involving…
Three weeks to go before the end of the season it has become abundantly clear that the promise of an unusually cold winter was everything but true.
The construction of Line 3 of the Tehran Metro has become a new source of concern for Valiasr Street, the capital’s longest treelined boulevard.
Populations of bees, butterflies and other species important for agricultural pollination are declining, posing potential risks to major world crops, a UN body on biodiversity said Friday.
The oil-rich Khuzestan Province in southwest Iran may have to prepare for more dust storms in the coming weeks.
The months-long natural gas leak that forced thousands of Los Angeles residents from their homes ranks as the largest known accidental methane release in US history, equal to the annual greenhouse…
After months of speculation, the Department of Environment has issued its long-awaited plan to protect the rare Persian leopard.
The plan was communicated to relevant organizations across…
Australia’s Great Barrier Reef (GBR), the world’s largest coral bank, is at greater risk than previously thought of dissolving as climate change renders the oceans more acidic, researchers said…
In the latest edition of their annual letter published on Monday, Bill and Melinda Gates argue that the world needs “an energy miracle,” and are willing to bet that such a breakthrough will arrive…
Following the recent trip by an Iranian delegation to Germany, the two countries signed a memorandum of understanding to cooperate in constructing environment-friendly housing in Hashtgerd and…
A baby gorilla is “doing well” after being delivered by Caesarean section in a rare operation at Bristol Zoo. The western lowland gorilla was born early, weighing 1.2 kilograms, after her mother…
The Tehran Department of Environment and Japan International Cooperation Agency will launch a study in May into the contribution of mobile and stationary sources of air pollutants to the pollution…
Diesel engines could be a bigger cause of climate change than petrol engines, according to a new study which has warned that the fuel’s environmental benefits could have been overstated.
