Environment

RFL/RE – A 5.4-magnitude earthquake has struck the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan, state TV reports.The were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.The European-Mediterranean Seismological Center put the quake’s magnitude at 5.5, saying it struck at 11:10 a.m. on November 6. The earthquake was centered some 80 kilometers north of the port city of Bandar-e Lengeh and 120 kilometers west …

Radiofarda – For drought-stricken Iran, a second year of heavy rains have brought much needed water but also floods, killing two people. An official of Red Crescent Organization has said that two people died in floods in Torbat Jam township and an official in the norther Mazanderan province reported one person missing. Many roads have been severed by floods and …

Radiofrada – Officials in Iran have again warned that the ground around the capital city Tehran is sinking and it will not be long before the subsidence begins affecting the center of the 10-million population city. In Summer the head of Mapping Organization had warned that the subsidence was picking up pace and approaching the Azadi monument. On October 30, …

Radiofarda – Latest figures published in Iran show 233 cities and towns still face water shortage despite plenty of rains in the spring that inundated vast areas of the country and killed dozens. About 140 cities are in the state of yellow alert, with means ten percent water shortage, while 59 cities and towns are in the red category with …

Radiofarda – Hundreds of people suffering from respiratory problems have visited the medical centers in the city of Ahvaz in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, southwest Iran, after first seasonal rains that were mixed with air pollutants. Hundreds of people rushed to hospitals to get help for respiratory problems caused by acid rains. October 2019 “Out of 480 nearly 380 …

PayvandNews – The last remaining western Siberian crane, called ‘Omid’ (meaning Hope in Persian), has returned to Iran once again to spend the winter but one month earlier than the previous years, IRNA news agency reported on Monday. Siberian crane ‘Omid’ The eye-catching snow-white bird has been taking wing to Iran for years in the first week of the Iranian …

Al-Arabia – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake struck in southern Iran on Monday, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.The earthquake was focused near the town of Kukherd in the southern province of Hormozgan, according to Fars.The report did not provide any information about possible casualties or material damage from the earthquake.Last Update: Monday, 21 October 2019 KSA 14:32 – GMT 11:32

Iran-HRM – Lack of infrastructure and mismanagement of the water supply network has created water crisis in Sistan and Baluchestan province. A Sistan and Baluchestan village water official said in July 2019 that close to half of the province lacked water supply networks. Abdolahad Rigi, the head of the Sistan and Baluchestan Rural Water and Sewage Company told the ILNA state-run News Agency that …

Newyorker.com – After the Iranian Revolution, in 1979, the theocracy called on women to breed a new Islamic generation. It lowered the marriage age to nine for girls and fourteen for boys; it legalized polygamy and raised the price of birth control. By 1986, the average family had six children. A leading cleric said that the government’s goal was to …

AFP -Four detained Iranian environmental activists have been cleared of a charge that could carry the death penalty, state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday. “The charge of ‘corruption on earth’ was dropped in recent days for four detained environmentalists,” said Mohammad Hossein Aghasi, a lawyer who represents some of the activists. “Of course their other charges still remain,” he …