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Middle East / Iran · Environment

Iran's foreign minister demands accountability for war-related environmental damage

Rank
83
Running
17h
Updated
3h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
6
Regions
3
Countries
6
Languages
3

INTLMiddle East Eye International · English 11 Oct, 14:24 UTC

The earliest of 4 English reports

Read it also in Deutsch (1) · नेपाली (1) · +1 language

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 6 after 18 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: SRF, 11 Oct, 08:44 UTC.
  2. Second country: Nepal, with Online Khabar.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Online Khabar.
  4. Now: 6 outlets.

Where it travelled

18 of 18 hours

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The 6 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

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  • Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%
  • Europe 1 outlet · 1 country · 17%
  • Middle East 2 outlets · 2 countries · 33%
  • International 1 outlet · 17%

First movers

  1. SRF 11 Oct, 08:44 UTC
  2. Online Khabar +2h 57m
  3. INTLMiddle East Eye +5h 40m
  4. Tehran Times +9h 10m
  5. Almasirah +11h 35m

Latest arrivals

  1. Daily Times 11 Oct, 23:30 UTC
  2. Almasirah 11 Oct, 20:20 UTC
  3. Tehran Times 11 Oct, 17:54 UTC
  4. INTLMiddle East Eye 11 Oct, 14:24 UTC
  5. Online Khabar 11 Oct, 11:41 UTC

The figures

Coverage
6 outlets in 6 countries, across 3 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 6 outlets, 2 state-owned, 1 public-service, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 2: Nepal, Pakistan. Europe 1: Switzerland. Middle East 2: Iran, Yemen. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
German, English, Nepali.
Timeline
Earliest article SRF, 11 Oct 2026, 08:44 UTC. First seen 11 Oct 2026, 08:50 UTC. Last seen 11 Oct 2026, 23:30 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region Middle East, Iran. Topic Environment. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
1.93, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
11 Oct 2026 239 3.25 6 6 6 6 4.7

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How this was measured

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Started 11 Oct, 08:50 UTC · Updated 23:30 UTC

Covered by 6 outlets

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  • Daily Times Pakistan 11 Oct, 23:30 UTC
    Araghchi warns of environmental risks from attacks on oil facilities
  • Almasirah Yemen 11 Oct, 20:20 UTC
    Iran FM Calls for International Accountability Over Wartime Environmental Destruction
  • Tehran Times Iran 11 Oct, 17:54 UTC
    Araghchi calls for international accountability for environmental destruction in wars
  • INTLMiddle East Eye International 11 Oct, 14:24 UTC
    Iran says environmental damage from US-Israeli attacks 'silent victim of war'
  • Online Khabar Nepal 11 Oct, 11:41 UTC
    इरानी विदेशमन्त्रीले युद्धले वातावरणमा पार्ने प्रभावबारे दिए चेतावनी
  • SRF Switzerland 11 Oct, 08:44 UTC
    Krieg im Nahen Osten – Irans Aussenminister beklagt Umweltfolgen des Kriegs
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