The stakes in Iran are high for the clerical rulers as the water scarcity in 2021 triggered violent protests across the ...

Tehran is grappling with a water crisis so severe the Iranian president has suggested people may need to evacuate, and the situation goes well beyond the capital. The weeks tick by, still the rains ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Fall marks the start of Iran’s rainy season, but large parts of the country have barely seen a drop as the nation faces one of its worst droughts in decades. Several key reservoirs ...

Between 2012 and 2018, Iran doubled the number of its dams, from 316 to 647, many built without environmental assessments.

Newly released satellite imagery has revealed the extent of the water crisis in Iran.Before-and-after photos captured by ...

Kaveh Madani of the United Nations University warns Iran's severe water crisis threatens regime stability and could impact the country's nuclear ambitions.

“If rationing water doesn’t work – we may have to evacuate Tehran”. The stark warning from Iran’s president Masoud ...

Iran’s own data already point to a long-term pattern of declining precipitation, hotter summers, and intensifying droughts.

Relief can’t come to Tehran soon enough. American cities in California and the southwest, with similarly arid climates and ...

The decision to move Iran’s capital is partly driven by climate change, but experts say decades of human error and action are ...

Iran is expected to be a major wheat importer as its driest autumn in 50 years, on top of ongoing drought, cuts its ability ...