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Managing-Director of the National Iranian Gas Company Hamid-Reza Araqi, in a message released on Sunday May 5, urged NIGC staff and officials to protect the environment and avoid polluting nature.
The campaign for car-free Tuesdays, which is gaining momentum across Iran, originated last November in Arak, a city overburdened by too many pollutant industries.
The following photos taken in Sistan and Baluchestan Province show four female villagers whose husbands have left their families and the drought-hit village in order to earn money in other cities.
The chief of Iran’s Department of Environment (DoE) and the Director-General of Afghanistan’s National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA) discussed issues related to Hamoun Lake preservation.
The chief of the Department of Environment, Masoumeh Ebtekar, and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) Executive Director Achim Steiner signed a joint plan of action on Friday, IRNA news agency reported.
Nestled between the provinces of Kerman and Sistan-Baluchestan, Jazmourian is one of two major wetlands in southeast Iran, the other being the Hamouns. Both are on the knife-edge of complete desiccation as a result of climate change, excessive dam construction and the depletion of groundwater resources.
Environmental catastrophes affect almost all aspects of our lives and one way or another we are all responsible for what we have done to the Earth. We all share the same earth and are fully responsible for what we do on it.
Farhad Tohidi, director of the 5th Green International Film Festival that was held after a 10-year hiatus, expressed his hope that the environmental film festival would continue in coming years.
An Iranian vice president on Wednesday, May 18, called for world nuclear disarmament, the latest expression of Tehran's determination to join the international community after the lifting of sanctions.
South Korea and Iran will sign a memorandum of understanding on environmental cooperation in Seoul later this week, the South Korean Environment Ministry said on Monday May 16.
The Head of Environmental Organization said on Sunday May 15 that the government has adopted a low-carbon economy, and is earnestly seeking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The director of an ongoing Iranian international film festival about the environment has appreciated the mention made by the Oscar-winning star Leonardo DiCaprio of Iran’s Lake Urmia.
It is possible to protect the environment in many ways; however, it needs a strong will and motivation. Such a resolve seems to have been reinforced in Iran in recent years to an extent that environmental protection has even become part of the traditional marriage ceremonies.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in a ceremony in southeast of Iran will present a plaque to the Iranian officials for registration of Hamoun Lake in the World Network of Biosphere Reserves.
International Migratory Bird Day is an event held since 2006 by two international wildlife organizations: The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of...
Water shortages and the subsequent severe increase in water-salt ratios in Lake Urmia water in recent years, has put Artemia, the only living creature...
