Jordan, Russia sign $10 billion deal on nuclear power plant 25/3/2015

Jordan signed a $10 billion deal with Russia on Tuesday to build the kingdom's first nuclear power plant, with two 1,000-megawatt reactors in the country's north. ...more

France now requires all new buildings to have green roofs or solar panels 25/3/2015

France just passed a trailblazing new law that requires that all new buildings constructed in commercial areas to be partially-covered by either solar panels or green roofs. ...more

Thirty new bean varieties bred to beat baking climate 25/3/2015

Scientists have bred 30 new varieties of "heat-beating" beans designed to provide protein for the world's poor in the face of global warming, researchers announced on Wednesday. ...more

Feces contains gold worth millions 25/3/2015

Human feces contains gold and other precious metals that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars, experts say. ...more

Researchers find fossil of 'Super Salamander' species 25/3/2015

Fossil remains of a previously unknown species of a crocodile-like "super salamander" that grew as long as a small car and was a top predator more than 200 million years ago have been found in southern Portugal, researchers announced Tuesday. ...more

Egypt signs up to Ethiopian Nile dam, citing trust 24/3/2015

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan Monday agreed a preliminary deal on a controversial dam project that Cairo feared would reduce its share of vital waters from the Nile. ...more

Czechs deploy wild horses from Britain to save biodiversity 24/3/2015

Twenty-five years ago it was a military zone where occupying Soviet troops held exercises. Today it's a sanctuary inhabited by wild animals that scientists hope will improve biodiversity among local plants as well as save endangered species. ...more

United Nations warns on pesticides 24/3/2015

The UN's International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) said Friday that three pesticides, including the popular weed killer Roundup, were "probably" carcinogenic and two others, which have already been outlawed or restricted, were "possibly" so. ...more

Beijing mayor promises frugal, smog-free Winter Games 24/3/2015

If Beijing wins the right to hold the 2022 Winter Olympics they will be both frugal and free from the city's notorious smog, the city's mayor was quoted as saying in a state-run newspaper on Tuesday. ...more

African elephants could be extinct in wild within decades say experts 24/3/2015

African elephants could be extinct in the wild within a few decades, experts warned at a major conservation summit in Botswana that highlighted an alarming decline in numbers due to poaching for ivory. ...more