Friday , 29 March 2024

Environment

Offices Closed in Five Iranian Provinces Due to Air Pollution and Dust Storms

Iranwire – Offices and some schools have been closed in Khuzestan, Yazd and 16 cities in Isfahan province due to ongoing severe air pollution and dust storms in the west. The official IRNA News Agency announced on Tuesday that in some parts of Khuzestan the concentration of dust particles in the air had breached the safe limit, 140 μg/m3 (micrograms …

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Fatalities Reported As Earthquake Rocks Southern Iran

rferl.org – A powerful earthquake rocked southern Iran overnight, officials reported on July 2. Iranian state television reported that at least five people had been killed and 80 injured in the magnitude 6.3 earthquake, the epicenter of which was some 1,000 kilometers south of Tehran in Hormozgan Province. Rescue workers were on the scene as aftershocks continued to drive locals …

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Official: Zayanderud Dam Water Reserves are 70 Percent Depleted

Iranwire – A year on from mass protests spurred by the water crisis in Iran, the Zayanderud dam is now at just 30 percent capacity with no prospect of being filled in the weeks to come, the director of Zayanderud Dam and Power Plant has warned.  Mojtaba Mousavi Naeini told ISNA on Monday that the sudden hike in daytime temperatures, the …

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Open Letter by Former Cellmates of Imprisoned Conservationists in Iran

CHRI – Former female cellmates of a group of wildlife conservationists who’ve been unjustly imprisoned in Iran since January 2018 penned the following letter as a tribute to their nature-loving friends on the occasion World Environment Day, June 5, 2022. The letter was initially written in Persian and provided to the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) along with the English …

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A brief review of destruction of environment in Iran in four decades

Iran-HRM – World Environment Day is an opportunity to briefly review the environment in Iran which is devastated in the past four decades. The destruction of the environment in Iran has led to poverty and the destitution of a large portion of the populace. Deforestation, drying up major lakes, water shortages, soil erosion, and heavy air pollution in Tehran, Khuzestan, …

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Iran, Iraq, Syria to cooperate on sandstorms

Al-Monitor – Iran, Iraq and Syria have pledged to work together on the sandstorms plaguing the region.  The official Islamic Republic News Agency reported yesterday that Iran’s Department of the Environment signed a memorandum of understanding on combating the storms with Syria. The department will sign another memorandum with Iraq in July, according to the agency.  The Middle East has been hit …

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Half of wetlands in Iran devastated by officials’ mismanagement

Iran-HRM – The pollution of wetlands in Iran has always been criticized by many environmentalists. Lack of waste and sewage management in the wetland environment, fragmentation of wetlands, burning of oil ponds in the wetland, and discharge of oil waste in the wetlands are among the issues of concern and raised by environmental activists. 43% of wetlands in Iran become …

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Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Syria embark on sand diplomacy

Al-Monitor – In response to an unprecedented number of sandstorms disrupting daily life, officials from Iraq, Kuwait, Iran and Syria spoke on the need to collectively address this increasing problem.  According to Fars News, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian spoke on the phone with his counterparts from Syria, Kuwait and Iraq on the need to address the sandstorms blanketing parts of their …

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Water, Environment and Justice: Iran

iranhr.net – The results of many dams and water transfer projects in Iran have been environmental injustice and migration to the city margins and shantytowns. For the past seven years, Abangan has sought to raise public awareness about water resource management, and in cooperation with the Iran Human Rights organization, it has addressed this issue from the perspective of human …

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