China's efforts to improve urban air quality are often viewed as a helper for fighting climate change, but a new joint China-U.S. study says otherwise.
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Large-scale deforestation could cause monsoon rains to shift south, cutting rainfall in India by nearly a fifth, scientists say.
Deforestation has long been known to cause…
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The EU formally adopted on Friday climate change targets for December’s Paris conference including a 40 percent cut in emissions by 2030, climate commissioner Miguel Arias Canete said.
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A bird thought to have gone the way of the dodo decades ago has been rediscovered in Myanmar (Burma), National Geographic reported. The bird, a Myanmar Jerdon's babbler, was…
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Residents of Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province receive text messages to inform them of the city’s dust pollution levels. According to Department of Environment deputy head Saeed Motessadi, giving people…
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Iran's diminishing forests have become a major talking point in environmental circles, and the trend has wiped off 14,000 hectares of forest area in the last 10 years alone.
Head of Iran's…
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Islamic State militants have destroyed ancient remains of the 2,000-year-old city of Hatra in northern Iraq, officials said on Saturday, in their latest attack on Iraqi antiquities which the…
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Over 600,000 foreign visitors entered the country through the West Azerbaijan borders in the 11 months of the current Iranian year (ends March 20), announced the tourism deputy of the provincial…
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The population explosion in the metropolis of Tehran along with the massive building boom calls for immediate attention at the national level “as the city has surpassed its capacity and the…
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