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President stresses providing immediate assistance to people affected by floods
Jan 05, 2022 11:42President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi highlighted the need for immediately helping those affected by recent floods in the country’s southern provinces.
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Raeisi orders follow-up on relief operations in flood-hit south as eight die
Jan 04, 2022 14:30President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi has ordered his energy minister to visit the country’s provinces hardly hit by floods and follow up on the relief operations underway in the affected areas.
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'Alarming' levels of 'forever chemicals' found in water near US bases in Okinawa
Jan 02, 2022 18:00As the U.S. military continues construction of a controversial new base at Henoko Bay, Okinawa, the recent discovery of extreme levels of highly toxic "forever chemicals" in local waterways and groundwater has renewed long-standing opposition to the American occupation of large portions of the Japanese archipelago.
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Three missing and feared dead from fierce Colorado wildfire
Jan 02, 2022 12:51Three people are missing and feared dead after a wind-stoked wildfire roared through two towns in Boulder County, Colorado, prompting thousands of evacuations and destroying nearly 1,000 homes, authorities said on Saturday.
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Melting of ice sheets Is dramatic, but melting of permafrost means mass death
Dec 19, 2021 17:30Recent scientific research has found that, by 2050, the key drivers of major climate change will be feedback loops at both ends of the temperature spectrum.
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Indonesians flee homes after magnitude 7.3 quake triggers tsunami warnings
Dec 14, 2021 08:25A powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Tuesday triggering a tsunami warning, the meteorological department said, which sent startled residents out into the streets, but there was no immediate word on any casualties or damage.
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Envoy: US sanctions hamper Iran’s efforts to tackle climate change
Dec 10, 2021 08:10Iran’s permanent ambassador to the UN says the United States’ unlawful sanctions against the country have barred Iran’s access to financial resources to tackle climate change, and hampered the Islamic Republic's significant steps to address the worldwide challenge.
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Palestine urges probe into Israel’s burial of radioactive waste in West Bank
Dec 08, 2021 13:27Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has called on the international community to launch an investigation into the issue of the illegal Zionist entity’s burial of nuclear, chemical and solid waste in the West Bank, citing increasing cancer rates in the occupied territory.
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'Unsettling': New study reveals Arctic Ocean warming for over a century
Dec 02, 2021 16:57New research published recently revealed the Arctic Ocean has been warming for decades longer than scientists previously understood, raising fresh concerns as the polar region faces the growing threat of a total loss of the seasonal ice that is crucial to the survival of the imperiled marine ecosystem.
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New Delhi residents struggle with worsening pollution
Nov 19, 2021 13:05New Delhi residents on Friday (November 19) struggled with breathing problems as high pollution levels continued in the Indian capital.