Sunday, October 30th, 2011
Canada offers at least three great cities – Toronto, Montreal and Quebec City. Toronto is the largest city in Canada and the fifth-largest in North America, located on the northern shore of Lake Ontario. The city is really about its the people, hence it shouldn’t be surprising the name “Toronto” comes from a Huron word meaning “meeting
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
“Forest models for research and decision support in sustainable forest management” will be held in Pierroton (Bordeaux), France , 1-2 March 2012. It will be an international conference focusing on the current state of knowledge on forest models and their use to support decision support in sustainable forest management. This conference will highlight the results
Sunday, October 30th, 2011
UN-REDD is inviting comments on a third draft of its social and environmental principles and criteria. This is part of a comments process that has been going on since March 2011. Comments on the most recent draft are invited between 15 October and 31 December 2011. Comments should be sent to [email protected]
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
IBM Research announced a project today to investigate the effects of wave energy devices on marine life in Ireland, host to one of the largest concentrations of wave energy in the world. With the demand for renewable energy resources particularly high in Ireland, the research is critical in determining the scope of wave energy potential.
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
National Water Information Briefings will be held in all capital cities throughout Australia during November and December 2011. The briefings will focus on the practical value and use of our water information products for people in water resources policy, planning and management. There is no charge to attend but places are limited. Read More
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Expressions of interest are invited from established suppliers of geographic information wishing to market and distribute marine and coastal data to the engineering, environmental and location based services sectors. The data products comprise raster images of the well-known and popular Admiralty Chart series, marine topographic mapping and seabed surface models created and maintained by marine
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
David Loosley has been appointed Chief Executive of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST), and will be taking up the role on 7 November 2011. He joins the Institute from the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) where, as Head of Operations, he has been responsible for the operational delivery of maritime safety
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
The long and often rather dangerous migration of the satellite-tracked Finnish osprey Jukka to his winter home in Africa has been successfully negotiated once more. Just over a week ago, Jukka touched down safely in the trees by the delta of the River Benoue, which runs into the southeast of the Lagdo reservoir in Cameroon. Read More
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Rapid population growth and natural resource degradation in the Nile River Basin pose the risk of intensified hunger and poverty in the region and require better, more forward-looking development planning to prevent that from happening, FAO said today. The warning came as the UN agency presented governments in the region with the results of a decade-long
Saturday, October 29th, 2011
Homeowners who decide to save money by generating their own renewable energy for the National Grid are to lose almost half their Government subsidy, prematurely published documents suggested yesterday. Drastic cuts to the feed-in tariff (FIT) for solar power, the guaranteed income to anyone who installs working solar panels in their roof, are likely to be
