The first marathon race in the winding paths of the iconic Abr (Cloud) Forest in Semnan Province was held on Thursday with the attendance of 110 Iranian and foreign runners.
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Already strained by a sharp fall in precipitation during the closing water year (began September 23, 2017), the southern coastline is not expected to receive a normal amount of rainfall during…
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Urban green spaces need to be planted with drought-resistant native species to cut back on water consumption for irrigation, at a time the country is struggling with an acute water crisis, an…
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A wildfire that began scorching the forests of Marivan in Kurdestan Province on Saturday has taken the lives of four environmentalists during their attempts to put out the blaze with bare hands…
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President Hassan Rouhani has directed the Foreign Ministry to push for greater cooperation from the Iraqi government to help contain a protracted fire at a wetland straddling the common border…
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke against setting more ambitious EU climate targets on Sunday but supported the idea of a transition toward a decarbonized transport sector.
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A German newspaper reports judges are considering jailing senior Bavarian officials for failing to take action against air pollution in Munich, home to automaker BMW.
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The government of India’s Maharashtra state on Sunday announced that anyone flouting noise pollution norms in Mumbai’s silent zones would invite imprisonment up to five years and a fine of 100,…
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A top environmental official dismissed reports of a disruption in the UN's financial support for the Asiatic cheetah protection program led by Iran's Department of Environment.
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An island volcano on the north coast of Papua New Guinea erupted early on Saturday, forcing 2,000 villagers to flee from lava flows, the National Disaster Centre said.
Manam Island, just…
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The tiny white insects that swarmed the capital Tehran in the past summers have not been present so far this year, much to the relief of the residents who already suffer such distressing…
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An unusual phenomenon, known as the red tide, has hit the waters off the coast of Chabahar. "The tide has been observed in recent days in international waters near Chabahar's oceanic waters,…
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This year's summer is reaching its end while the capital has seen no "good" air quality during the first two months of the hot season.
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In an open session of parliament on Sunday, lawmakers gave their seal of approval to four articles of the bill on protecting the soil whose general principles had earlier been endorsed in late…
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Head of the Department of Environment Isa Kalantari called for the Science Ministry, which is in charge of higher education, to narrow the focus of an environmental college to ranger training.…
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The body of a brown bear cub, which was struck dead by a car, was found on Monday morning on Mojen-Taash road in Shahroud, Semnan Province.
This is the sixth bear victimized…
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The dust particles, which covered the skies of southwest Alborz Province on Sunday, would persist for a couple of days, according to weather forecasts.
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It has been another encouraging year for turtles in Cyprus, with the number of nests this year at around 1,600 so far, founder and co-head of the turtle conservation program under the island's…
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Australia's biggest grocer Woolworths Group flagged on Monday it had rapidly lost sales momentum after starting to charge shoppers for plastic bags, sending its shares lower.
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Environmental experts say a portion of Urmia Lake in its southern side can never be filled with water again and officials have envisioned instead a plan to turn the area into a natural reserve…
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A biking tour attended by journalists was held in the capital on Friday to symbolically inaugurate an urban scheme on using smart bike facilities in Tehran, a pilot plan that will be officially…
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Recognizing the importance of promoting environmental education from an early age, the government has recently introduced it to the national curriculum as an independent subject.
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The percentage of buses in Tehran's public transportation fleet with a technical inspection license has risen to a88% up from 75% last year following an order by the Traffic Department of Tehran…
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Australia's worst drought in a generation is driving flocks of emus into an outback mining town in a desperate hunt for food and water, an animal rescue unit in the town of Broken Hill said.
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Indonesia is about to open the Asian Games but its traffic-clogged capital Jakarta remains shrouded in a haze of air pollution that threatens to mar the world's second-biggest multi-sport event…
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