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2025-06-11 15:00
WHO to back Markazi province in addressing health challenges
TEHRAN – Key health authorities in Markazi Province have explored opportunities for collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO) to address the province’s pressing health challenges, including a high burden of road traffic injuries and air pollution.
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2025-03-12 14:53
UNDP, DOE beef up ties to tackle air pollution
TEHRAN – The Department of Environment (DOE) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to enhance the country’s capacity to address air pollution using new technologies.
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2025-01-17 14:51
Air pollution contributes to 16% increase in mortality
TEHRAN –According to national studies, exposure to air pollution is associated with a 16 percent increase in mortality increasing deaths from cardiovascular diseases, and lung cancers by 27 and 28 percent, respectively.
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2024-11-11 22:15
Iranian House of Cartoon hosts intl. exhibit on air pollution, environmental issues
TEHRAN- The Iranian House of Cartoon in Tehran is now hosting a selection of cartoon artworks by international artists focusing on air pollution and the environment.
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2024-10-06 17:30
Yazd seeks to replace tile manufacturing with eco-friendly tourism
TEHRAN — Iran’s Yazd province, which is both a major hub for tile production and house to numerous travel attractions, seeks to reduce its ceramic output in favor of expanding the tourism sector.
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2024-08-25 15:27
Air pollution, landslide, water scarcity are becoming major challenges: DOE head
TEHRAN –Air pollution, landslide, and lack of water resources are being turned into significant challenges and concerning issues that require national consensus to be addressed effectively, Shina Ansari, the new head of the Department of Environment (DOE), has said.
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2024-01-19 15:57
By Maryam Tavassoli
Environmental protection is a public duty
TEHRAN –Environmental protection is a public duty. Tackling environmental problems requires the participation of the government, the private sector, as well as people.
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2024-01-16 15:11
By Maryam Tavassoli
Clean Air, Responsible Official, Responsible Citizen
TEHRAN – Running from January 16 to 22, the National Clean Air Week is being observed this year under the theme of 'Clean Air, Responsible Official, Responsible Citizen’.
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2023-12-02 17:49
By Afshin Majlesi
The necessity of community-based tourism development
For millennia, events have been an inseparable facet of the Iranian culture, predominantly when it comes to natural occurrences triggered by seasonal changes. Originating from small rural and tribal entities, such community-based reunions have expanded, thrived, and passed down from generation to generation to convey a message of warmth and kindness.
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2023-10-27 14:14
Fleet electrification helps reduce air pollution: DOE chief
TEHRAN - Ali Salajeqeh, the head of the Environment Department, has called fleet electrification one of the government's strategies to reduce air pollution.
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2023-01-14 17:30
Clean Air Law awaiting national will
TEHRAN – The Clean Air Week started on Saturday with “realization of clean air, public rights, national will” as the slogan.
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2023-01-10 18:42
Air pollution may pose threat to Isfahan’s historical monuments
TEHRAN – Air pollution has adverse effects on the historical monuments in the ancient city of Isfahan, a researcher, and an expert in traditional architecture has said.
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2023/01/02
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Citizens of metropolises dream of clean air
TEHRAN – In the past, the air was supposed to keep us alive, but it seemingly has changed its duty, like many other things, to kill us.
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2022-12-27 17:09
Clunker vehicles to be blame for air pollution
TEHRAN – The main reason behind Tehran's air pollution is the traffic of old cars and diesel motorcycles, head of air health and climate change department of the Ministry of Health has said.
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2022-12-17 18:48
Tehran derby postponed due to air pollution
TEHRAN – The match between Persepolis and Esteghlal was postponed due to dangerous levels of air pollution in Tehran, capital of Iran.
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2022-12-11 18:52
By Faranak Bakhtiari
What air pollution brings to mountains?
TEHRAN – Unbelievably, remote mountains are no exception to air pollution exposure despite many being difficult to travel to, as roads are scarce and accessibility is limited.
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2022-11-27 18:29
Implementation of Clean Air Law needs $5b
TEHRAN – A total of 1.8 quadrillion rials (nearly $5 billion) is required to implement Clean Air Law, Department of Environment chief Ali Salajeqeh has said.
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2022-11-21 18:55
Deaths attributed to air pollution increased by 87%
TEHRAN – During the last [Iranian calendar] year (March 2021-March 2022), the number of all deaths attributed to long-term exposure to PM2.5 particles increased by more than 87 percent compared to a year before, Abbas Shahsavani, head of air health and climate change department of the Ministry of Health, has said.
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2022-11-19 17:16
By Faranak Bakhtiari
Air pollution kills more than AIDS and malaria
TEHRAN – The number of people who die annually from air pollution in the world is 6 times the number of people who die from malaria and 4 times those killed by AIDS.
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2022-11-13 19:24
Mobile sources responsible for 83% of Tehran’s air pollution
TEHRAN – Some 83 percent of air pollution in Tehran and 70 percent in other big cities of the country are caused by mobile sources, Abdollah Motevalli, deputy director of the Standards and Quality Inspection Company, has said.
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2022-08-31 20:00
Over 21,000 Iranians die of air pollution in year
TEHRAN – During the past [Iranian calendar] year (March 2021-March 2022), more than 21,000 people died in 27 cities of the country due to air pollution, Darioush Gol Alizadeh, head of the national center for weather and climate change affiliated with the Department of Environment, has said.
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2022-06-26 16:52
Solar air quality monitoring device produced domestically
TEHRAN – An Iranian knowledge-based company has succeeded in designing and producing a solar air quality monitoring device.
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2022-05-24 13:53
Football matches in Iran postponed
TEHRAN - Iran Football League Organization has postponed five matches scheduled for Tuesday due to the air pollution.
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2022-05-15 20:10
By Afshin Majlesi
A breath of fresh air! 7 pretty villages around Tehran
TEHRAN - Teeming with life, bright lights and fantastic places to visit, the Iranian capital is the country’s beating heart but its real soul may be found in nearby villages.