China may become top wheat importer competing with Egypt 18/7/2013

China's wheat crop has suffered more severely than previously thought from frost in the growing period and rain during the harvest, and import demand to compensate for the damage could see the country eclipse Egypt as the world's top buyer. ...more

European Parliament votes for controversial biofuel cap 18/7/2013

The European Parliament's environment committee (ENVI) voted in favour of legislation to cap the percentage of biofuels in European renewable energy transport targets at 5.5%. ...more

Tidal energy could power half of Scotland's electricity needs 18/7/2013

Tidal power in the Pentland Firth has the potential to power almost half of Scotland's electricity demands, according to new research. ...more

Robots to Salvage Reefs 18/7/2013

The world is witnessing the ‘International Year of Reef’ come this year, where countries are adopting various techniques to understand the several perils to the world’s coral. ...more

Treating pavement with titanium oxide reduces air pollution 17/7/2013

Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands have found that treating pavement with titanium oxide causes a reduction in nitrogen oxide air pollution. ...more

Report: Seas may rise 2.3 meters per degree of global warming 17/7/2013

Sea levels could rise by 2.3 meters for each degree Celsius that global temperatures increase and they will remain high for centuries to come, according to a new study by the leading climate research institute, released on Monday. ...more

Hero diver rescues a whale entangled in fishing line (Video) 17/7/2013

While cruising 50 miles offshore of Virginia Beach Tuesday, two local fishermen, Captain Pat Foster and his mate Adrian Colaprete, happened upon an endangered Northern right whale that had become hopelessly entangled in rope and was laboring out to sea dragging heavy fishing gear. ...more

Five Weird Energy Devices 17/7/2013

SaveOnEnergy, which helps customers in competitive energy markets shop for energy suppliers, has come up with a list of five innovative energy sources, and created an infographic to show these devices: ...more

Forgotten Species: The Arapaima or 'Dinosaur Fish' 17/7/2013

Everyone knows the tiger, the panda, the blue whale, but what about the other five to thirty million species estimated to inhabit our Earth? Many of these marvelous, stunning, and rare species have received little attention from the media, conservation groups, and the public. ...more

Ancient Egyptian river could be revived for farming 16/7/2013

A 5,000-year-old river could be resurrected to bring sustainable agriculture to one of the planet's rainiest yet driest deserts: The desert of the Sinai Peninsula. ...more