Toyota unveils fuel-cell car assembly line 26/2/2015

Toyota President Akio Toyoda on Tuesday unveiled the assembly line that is making the first mass market fuel-cell car. ...more

Bomb-sniffing elephants trained in South Africa 26/2/2015

In the South African bush, elephants are being trained in the art of "bio-detection" to see if they can use their exceptional sense of smell to sniff out explosives, landmines and poachers. ...more

Risk of death from smoking higher than thought 26/2/2015

A large Australian study of more than 200,000 people has provided independent confirmation that up to two in every three smokers will die from their habit if they continue to smoke. ...more

Scientists witness carbon dioxide trapping heat in air 26/2/2015

Scientists have witnessed carbon dioxide trapping heat in the atmosphere above the United States, chronicling human-made climate change in action, live in the wild. ...more

Jeddah gets 24 parks in as many weeks 25/2/2015

Jeddah Mayor Hani Abu Ras recently inaugurated the 24th park in the Al-Nuzha district under the Jeddah municipality's program of giving a park to the residents of Jeddah every week. ...more

Rarest big cat on earth starting to make a comeback 25/2/2015

Things are starting to look up for the rarest big cat on the planet: The critically endangered Amur leopard, which is indigenous to southeastern Russia and parts of northeastern China, has doubled in population since 2007, according to a new report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). ...more

Paris has turned the Eiffel Tower into a wind energy machine 25/2/2015

Just how serious is Paris about cutting the City of Light’s carbon footprint? Serious enough to install two wind turbines on the iconic Eiffel Tower. ...more

Plastic-eating corals discovered on Great Barrier Reef 25/2/2015

Researchers in Australia have found that corals commonly found on the Great Barrier Reef will eat micro-plastic pollution. ...more

Mobile technology helps Sri Lanka cope with climate change 25/2/2015

Floods and landslides linked to climate change have battered parts of Sri Lanka in the past two years, disrupting food output, but scientists believe a new program to install low-cost weather stations based on open-source technology could help farmers adapt to increasingly wild weather. ...more

SABIC Waste-Free Environment Campaign promotes best practices among consumers 24/2/2015

For the third year in a row, SABIC launched Waste-Free Environment Campaign at the Dareen Beach in Jubail on Sunday as part of an initiative of the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA). ...more