SPECIAL REPORT – He Returned to Iran to Help Save Its Environment. He Had...
TORONTO, Canada, April 27 (Reuters) - Iranian scientist Kaveh Madani's career was in full bloom as he settled into his seat in early 2018 for a flight home from Bangkok to Tehran.
Though raised in the Iranian...
Exclusive: IRGC’s Obsession With Cloud Seeding
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Ministry of Defence and the Energy Ministry will join forces to develop the country’s cloud seeding capabilities, the Tasnim News Agency reported on February 17.
This announcement is...
ANALYSIS: Mapping Iran’s Biodiversity Hotspots To Create New Protected Areas
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Experts Warn of Possibility of Tehran Earthquake
Iran experienced 728 earthquakes in November 2017 alone, with the strongest measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale and striking Kermanshah Province in northwest of the country near the border with Iraq, leading to the...
Majority of Iranians Affected by Severe Drought, Says Expert
Close to 97 percent of the Iranian population, meaning more than 77 million people, are living in drought-stricken regions, says Sadegh Ziaeian, the director of the National Emergency Management of Drought and Meteorological Disasters....
Southern Iran Ravaged by Locust Swarms
April 16, 2019 - Swarms of desert locusts (short-horned grasshoppers) have attacked farmland in the southern and southeastern provinces of Hormozgan, Bushehr, Kerman, Fars and Sistan, and Baluchestan as well as Qeshm Island.
Millions of...
Drought in Sistan and Baluchestan Could Cause Mass Migration
Severe drought will soon force more than half a million people in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan to migrate to other parts of the country, says Mohammad Naeim Aminifard, the representative from...
Iran’s Gasoline Crisis: Clean Labels, Toxic Reality
By Kayhan Life and Kayhan London Staff
Leaked data from Iran’s energy sector offer a rare, unvarnished look at how the country’s gasoline crisis has been managed—and mismanaged—over the past decade. The documents suggest a...
Tehran Grants Bail to British-Iranian Environmentalist on Security Charges – Lawyer
DUBAI, July 27 (Reuters) - Iran has granted bail to British-Iranian environmentalist Morad Tahbaz, who has been convicted of security offences, his lawyer was quoted as saying by the semi-official ILNA news agency on Wednesday.
The report came a...
Southern Iranian Soil from Fields, Farms Being Smuggled to Qatar, Official Says
Dirt from farms and grasslands in southern Iranian provinces has been smuggled to Qatar for the past decade to be used for creating man-made islands and new land along the Persian Gulf coastline, the...
