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Environment

GHOST TOWERS

Newyorker.com - After the Iranian Revolution, in 1979, the theocracy called on women to breed a new Islamic generation. It…

Iran Drops Death Row Charge For Environmentalists

AFP -Four detained Iranian environmental activists have been cleared of a charge that could carry the death penalty, state news…

Wife of Ecologist Who Died In Jail Allowed To Leave Iran After Two Years

Radiofarda - Maryam Mombini, the wife of environmentalist Kavous Seyyed Emami, who died in custody at Evin prison in Tehran…

Climate Change Threatens Iranian Crisis

lobelog.org -As tensions flare in the Persian Gulf, the news media has wondered whether Iran and the United States’ exchange of escalatory…

Iran Sentences 86 People to Lashes for Protesting Water Transfer Project

Iran-HRM - The Iranian regime sentenced 86 people to a total of 2,580 lashes and 344 months of prison for…

Bill on protection of animals brought before Iran’s Parliament

PayvandNews - A long-awaited bill on protection of animals which had been proposed over 3 years ago was finally brought…

Iran’s Disappearing Forests Pose Environmental Challenge

lobelog - While Western think tanks have drawn attention to droughts and floods in Iran, the news media has ignored another critical…

Will the world’s fastest Asiatic cheetah outrun extinction?

PayvandNews - Although Iran is the only country which can save the precious species from disappearance, conservation projects fall into…

Dozens hospitalized as sand and dust storms haunt southeastern Iran

PayvandNews - Severe sand and dust storms (SDSs) has left 127 patients hospitalized due to respiratory problems in the southeastern…

Detained Conservationists Niloufar Bayani and Sepideh Kashani on Hunger Strike

CHRI - Wildlife conservationists Niloufar Bayani and Sepideh Kashani have been detained in Iran without due process along with six…