teheran air pollution Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:54:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Air Pollution Leads to How Many Deaths Per Year? https://www.greenoptimistic.com/air-pollution-leads-many-deaths-per-year-20140409/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/air-pollution-leads-many-deaths-per-year-20140409/#respond Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:52:43 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46929 Since the Industrial Revolution, associated with learning how to use fossil fuels to perform work, air pollution has increased and, with it, sentenced millions of people to death. Fossil fuels, essentially the concentrated hydrocarbon-rich remains of plant and animal life from hundreds of thousands of years ago, can be extracted, refined, and used to generate […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/air-pollution-leads-many-deaths-per-year-20140409/feed/ 0 46929 Public Services in Teheran Are Shut Down due to Air Pollution https://www.greenoptimistic.com/public-services-in-teheran-are-shut-down-due-to-air-pollution-20130104/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/public-services-in-teheran-are-shut-down-due-to-air-pollution-20130104/#respond Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:45:50 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=30763 For a second time in one month Iranian officials will close public schools, universities and government offices in Teheran on Saturday. The reason, as announced by Teheran’s governor Morteza Tamadon  on Thursday, is the extremely high levels of pollutants in the atmosphere. The citizens of the Iranian capital are also advised to travel within the […]

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