Pollution
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By: Asgaripour, Ghayoumi & Abbasi
Tehran grappling with severe air pollution
TEHRAN, Dec. 23 (MNA) – The air quality index for the city of Tehran has reached 139 which is considered unhealthy for the sensitive groups. The pollution has forced school shut-downs in most cities of Tehran province on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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By: Arshide Shahangi
Severe air pollution hits Tehran
TEHRAN, Dec. 16 (MNA) – Air Quality Index (AQI) value in Tehran has reduced to 137 on Monday meaning that the pollution is ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’. Schools and universities in most cities of Tehran province were announced closed on Monday.
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Tehraners resort to masks as air pollution soars
TEHRAN, Nov. 30 (MNA) – Severe air pollution has hit Tehran since some 4 days ago, forcing residents to use masks for their own safety. Schools and universities have been announced closed today and tomorrow in most cities of Tehran province. Officials hope that a predicted rain on Monday would wash the pollution away.
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Iranian Foreign Ministry should follow up Aras River pollution
TEHRAN, Nov. 23 (MNA) – In a report, IRNA has urged Iranian authorities not to overlook the Aras River pollution caused by wastewater from Armenia in recent years.
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By: Faranak Bakhtiari
High ozone brings serious air pollution to Tehran’s summer
TEHRAN, Jun. 30 (MNA) – Tehran air quality reached a level which was unhealthy for sensitive groups for about 7 days due to ozone pollutant; as the statistics show concentration of this pollutant increases in the capital mostly during summer, so, ground level ozone became the main contributor to pollution in the capital’s hot seasons.
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Iran, Norway to expand environmental coop.
TEHRAN, May 14 (MNA) – The chief of Iran’s Department of Environment (DoE) met and held talks with Norway’s Ambassador to Tehran on environmental cooperation between the two countries.
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Iran, Malaysia kick off joint research project
TEHRAN, Oct. 28 (MNA) – Faculty Member of the Materials and Energy Research Center (MERC) Farah Halek announced the launch of a joint research project between Islamic Republic of Iran and Malaysia in the field of finding the root causes behind air pollution in the capitals of the two countries as well as finding the ways to control it.
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By: M.A. Saki
We have been taken hostage by vehicles
TEHRAN, Feb. 7 (MNA) – In the recent days the air pollution in some parts of Tehran has reached a dangerous level, ringing the alarm bells that something serious may happen.
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Severe pollution shuts down schools in Tehran again
TEHRAN, Feb. 5 (MNA) –Schools in Tehran will be closed on Tuesday due to severe air pollution.
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By Maryam Qarehgozlou
Tangled web of air pollution in Tehran
TEHRAN, Jan. 01 (MNA) – Air pollution, the recurring nightmare of Tehraners from which there is no waking, is a complicated saga of the busy capital of Iran.
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By: Maryam Qarehgozlou
Tehran traffic schemes: Does anyone think twice about air pollution?
TEHRAN, Dec. 25 (MNA) – Tehran Municipality has resumed talks over the past few days concentrating on altering traffic schemes to ease congestion and abating air pollutions.
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Iran hopes UN resolution on dust pollution to bring favorite results
TEHRAN, Dec. 24 (MNA) – Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations Gholam Ali Khoshroo says that after the adoption of UN resolution on combating sand and dust storms, Iran hopes for more developments in the field.
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Senior officials to meet on Tehran pollution, earthquake
TEHRAN, Dec. 23 (MNA) – Heads of three branches of government - the judicial, the executive and the legislative, will hold a meeting within a month to review proposals addressing the pollution and earthquake preparedness in the cosmopolitan Tehran.
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By: Ghayuomi, Moheimany
Unhealthy air permeating Tehran for 6th consecutive day
TEHRAN, Dec. 19 (MNA) – Despite the cancellation of schools and sport events in Tehran in the last 3 days, the bad air is still hovering over the mega city. Also traffic restrictions have been enforced in the last two days but some critics are calling for closing of all offices, banks, and organizations to lower the pollution level.
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IUESA:
Greenhouse to grow by 45% by 2030
TEHRAN, Jun. 08 (MNA) – IUESA Head Dr. Pourzarandi said one of the solutions to achieve sustainable development was preventing environmental hazards.