Saudi-German workshop focuses on solar power collaboration 20/11/2013

Saudi and German representatives from industry and research started yesterday a two-day workshop in Riyadh to discuss future cooperation on concentrated solar power (CSP) between the Kingdom and Germany. ...more

Philippines typhoon crop damage worth $110 million: FAO 20/11/2013

The typhoon that hit the Philippines has caused crop losses worth $110 million and inflicted damage to the agriculture sector of more than twice that figure, preliminary estimates from the United Nation's food agency showed on Tuesday. ...more

Russia grants bail to nine foreign Greenpeace activists 20/11/2013

Russian courts granted bail to nine jailed foreign Greenpeace activists on Tuesday, a turnaround in Russia's treatment of 30 people facing trial over a protest against Arctic oil drilling. ...more

Gabon troops kill poacher, arrest 34 others near elephant park 20/11/2013

Gabonese soldiers killed a poacher and arrested 34 other illegal hunters near a national park which is home to endangered forest elephants, the government said on Tuesday. ...more

Norway's military wages war on global warming by going vegan 20/11/2013

Norway has been a leader in efforts to stem CO2 emissions worldwide and has supported implementation of measures to aid developing countries in achieving U.N. goals of reducing greenhouse gases. To Norwegians, the health of our planet is a serious matter. ...more

Flash floods claim 15 lives 19/11/2013

At least 15 people have died and eight others are reported missing in flash floods caused by heavy rains in Riyadh and other parts of the Kingdom in the last 24 hours. ...more

Exposed: The myth of the global warming 'pause' 19/11/2013

Scientists can now explain the “pause” in global warming that skeptics have used to bolster their arguments. Skeptics had claimed we have nothing to fear from climate change because it has stopped being a problem. ...more

Brazil declares emergency as hungry caterpillars attack crops 19/11/2013

Infestations of the Helicoverpa caterpillar in Brazil's grain belt prompted the agriculture ministry on Monday to declare a state of emergency in the leading soy state of Mato Grosso, highlighting the potential risk to large parts of the crop. ...more

Children's congenial heart defects linked to environmental toxins 19/11/2013

Approximately 8 out of every 1,000 newborns have congenial heart defects — abnormalities in the heart's structure that happen due to incomplete or irregular development of the fetus' heart during the first stages of the mother's pregnancy. ...more

2012 death toll for bats reaches 600,000 due to wind turbines 19/11/2013

Efforts to promote and develop new forms of sustainable energy have pushed wind power to the forefront. However, this type of power comes with a cost — as it often interferes with birds' and bats' migration, killing hundreds of thousands of these winged species. ...more