Abu Dhabi Fund for Development (ADFD), together with the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena), has awarded US$57 million in loans for renewable energy projects in five developing countries

Iran has backed up months of warnings to Tehran residents to reduce their water use amid continuing shortages by cutting supplies to those deemed as consuming too much, state media said.

TEHRAN- Iran plans to place 400,000 electric motorcycles and 140,000 hybrid taxi cabs on the market as part of a plan backed by the Oil Ministry to help environment protection, said the managing di

A major earthquake struck the western Iranian city of Abdanan on Monday, leaving 60 people injured, state news agency IRNA said.

Iran, sapped by drought in parts of the country for five decades, will try to save one of the Middle East’s largest lakes after it lost 85 percent of its water.

At least four people have been killed, and 30 others injured, in what’s being described as a “freak” sandstorm in Iran’s capital city of Tehran.

Tokyo and Yokohama have been declared the cities at highest risk of natural disaster by Zurich-based Swiss Reinsurance (Swiss Re) in a 2013 study, whose findings were recently announced.

17.9 million Kolkatans face serious risk from natural disasters and the city emerges as the world’s seventh riskiest city reveals this new analysis of natural disasters confronting 616 of the world’s largest urban areas.

Iran plans to set up a carbon trading market to reduce industrial emissions of climate-warming gas, an official from Iran's Fuel Conservation Organization (IFCO) told oil ministry news service Shan

Energy-starved Pakistan is to import 1000MW from Iran to meet its pressing national needs whereas Tehran has offered 3000MW.

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