Jun 09 2010
The potential effects have been compared to those of a large earthquake, after 3,600 people were reported to have died from pollution-related illnesses in four weeks during October and November. The figures were released by officials heading a government programme to cut pollution in Tehran, home to 12 million people. Emergency services have reported a [...]
Jun 08 2010
What is Oil Pollution? Oil pollution is simply the spilling of crude or refined petroleum product into the environment. There are some staggering statistics that follow. These are statistics from the 1995 Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition, and have not been updated. It is estimated that the overall totals have increased two or three fold. æ—³ccidental [...]
Jun 08 2010
It is a philosophy – if not a dress-sense – that is at one with the new Iran and the instincts of Iran’s populist President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has made a political cause out of championing the country’s blue-collar workers. So not for Ali the time-honoured spectre of the street hawker hoping to make a [...]
