EghtesadOnline: The southern Khuzestan Province needs millions of dollars to protect its infrastructure from heavy dust storms that wreak havoc in many parts of the oil-rich province every year, a local energy official said on Saturday.

EghtesadOnline: Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian warned that environmental problems in southern Khuzestan Province, notably the worsening sand and dust storms, are the ripple effects of Turkey's aggressive dam construction policies.

EghtesadOnline: Vice President and Head of Iran's Department of the Environment, Massoumeh Ebtekar said on Wednesday that The National Development Fund of Iran (NDFI) has allocated $100 million to revive wetland.

EghtesadOnline: Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Vice President and Head of the Department of Environment Masoumeh Ebtekar, in a joint letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, called for immediate measures to address the problem of dust storms.