Unprecedented Flooding Hits Iran, Forces Village Evacuations
GENEVA/LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) - Heavy flooding continued in Iran on Tuesday as many provinces geared up for days of waterlogged misery and authorities warned of possible floods in the capital Tehran as well the oil-rich...
Floods Kill at Least 18 in Southern Iran, Provinces on Alert
By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, March 25 (Reuters) - At least 18 people were killed and around 100 others were injured in flash floods in Iran's southern Fars province, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Monday, with...
Iranian Judiciary Postpones Court Date for Jailed Environmentalists
The Iranian Judiciary has postponed the trial of eight environmentalists jailed since January 2018 to an unspecified date following the Nowruz holidays (Iranian New Year starting March 21), according to the Islamic Republic News...
Iran Performs Poorly in Water Resources Management, Official Says
Iran ranks 131st out of 132 countries for successfully managing its renewable water resources, according to Hamidreza Ghalamkari, chairman of the Majlis (Iranian Parliament) Committee on Agriculture, Water and Natural Resources.
More than 90 percent...
Iran’s Zagros Mountains Face Water Shortage, Threatening Wildlife, Plants
Vegetation covering the Zagros Mountains forest steppe has rapidly shrunk in the past 40 years because of water shortage and severe drought, ILNA (Iranian Labor News Agency) has reported citing Isa Kalantari, the head...
Iran Faces Water Shortage and Heightened Risk of Flooding
By Azadeh Karimi
A four-year-old boy is the latest victim of a flood caused by the overflow of the Kaju River’s banks near Ghasre Ghand Country in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan. Flash...
Iran’s Regions Are Hit by Severe Drought, Water Shortage
Despite a 220 percent increase in rainfall in the past 11 months, 97 percent of the urban, rural, and nomadic populations of Iran continue to experience drought and water shortage, ISNA (Iranian Students News...
Iranian Environment Officials Say Cheetah Poachers Deserve Harsher Punishment
A court in Tehran has found three men guilty of violating Article 13 of the Hunting and Trapping law by capturing, smuggling and selling an eight-month-old endangered Asian cheetah cub, and has ordered the...
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...
Iran’s Environmentalists Oppose Plan to Take Caspian Seawater to Salty Lowlands
Kayhan London: More than 40 conservationist groups have written to President Hassan Rouhani demanding an immediate stop to a plan to transport water from the Caspian Sea to Dasht-e Kavir (also known as the...
