MNA A four-member team of European experts has visited areas in southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan, which are prone to creating dust storms. According to the Director General of Khuzestan Provinces Environment Office Shahriar Askari, on Friday, a four-member team of European experts from Finland, Germany and Austria visited areas in southwestern ...

Tehran, March 6,The Iran Project Respecting environment is a debate which goes beyond the branches, Irans Judiciary Chief says, stressing that this issue should become a part of public culture. Ayatollah Amoli Larijani, the Judiciary Chief of Islamic Revolution made the remarks during the Third National Congress on the Environmental Law which is underway ...

TEHRAN, Nov. 10 (MNA) An official of Irans DOE told the media about forming a joint committee with Germans as a result of talks with his German counterpart. To coordinate joint efforts of Iran and Germany on environmental issues, a joint committee will be formed soon, Saeed Motesadi, Deputy Head of Iran's Department of the Environment (DOE), told ...

On April 22, 1970, millions took to the streets to mark the first ever Earth Day, turning environmentalism from an activists hobby into a social movement. Forty-five years on, this once monumental day has become an occasion for governments and multibillion-dollar companies to issue press statements about how they intend to celebrate the day by planting ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The Iranian cabinet underlined the importance of taking immediate measures to settle the problem of heavy air pollution caused by dust particles at the areas along shared borders with neighboring countries. During the cabinet meeting chaired by President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday evening, Head of Irans Environmental Protection Organization ...

[caption id="attachment_148872" align="alignright" width="116"] Bleak and austere: a boat lies rusting and stranded in its waterless mooring on the salty flats of Lake Uromiyeh. Shallow water and high salinity may accelerate the death of the lake even sooner than expected.[/caption] REPRINTIn commemoration of World Wetlands Week we are re-posting ...

Tehran, Dec 19, IRNA Vice-President and Head of Department of Environment Massoumeh Ebtekar underlined the need for the further cooperation among member-states of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) to remove the environmental challenges facing the regional countries. 'The conditions of the western Asia, specially the ECO member-states is ...

[caption id="attachment_137770" align="alignright" width="232"] Conservation of Biodiversity in Central Zagros Landscapes' goal is ultimately to ensure the protection and sustainability of use and exploitation of all biodiversity in the Central Zagros Region. Photo Credit: Farid Atar[/caption] Dating back 5000 years, oak forests play a vital role ...

TEHRAN Oct 29 (Shana)--It would be unfair to ignore improvement in the quality of Tehrans air, advisor to head of Department of Environment (DOE), Esmail Kahrom said. Responding to the recent wave of criticism against pollution in Tehran, he said various elements lie behind pollution in Tehran, not just the quality of gasoline. Its undeniable that ...

Tehran, Oct 23, IRNA Iranian Vice-President and Head of the Department of Environment Dr. Massoumeh Ebtekar cautioned against the threats posed by heedless actions of human beings to the environment. 'The planet Earth is really now in danger by actions of human beings who have had practically destroyed the environment,' Dr. Ebtekar told Al-Ettejah,...

The head of Irans Department of the Environment has announced serious concern over the release of untreated city and town sewage into rivers in some parts of the country, referring to it as an environmental catastrophe. In a report in the Sharvand Daily on Monday October 6, Massoumeh Ebtekar said the Department of the Environment is firmly pursuing ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran welcomes cooperation with all countries in order to resolve the environmental problems, particularly the global warming crisis, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said.   President Rouhani made the comments in an address to the Climate Change Summit at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday. The Islamic Republic ...

Thousand of fish have been found floating dead in rivers in Gilan and Ardebil Provinces. Eyewitnesses report that they observed the sudden appearance of thousands of dead fish on the Nokandeh River in Rezvanshahr. IRNA reports that on Monday August 4, the Gilan Environmental Protection Department confirmed the fish are dead and that it is now investigating ...

A new research has suggested that trees play significant role in removing air pollution and preventing respiratory diseases. A large scale study conducted by the researchers of several centers unveils that trees save more than 850 people lives and prevent 670,000 cases of acute respiratory symptoms annually. The research focused on the effects of ...