Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
The demand for such surveys has been made on sharp deterioration in soil fertility due to erosion, repeated cropping, and agro practices that deplete nitrogen and micro nutrients. Director, Centre for Community-Based Farming Scheme (COBFAS) University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Prof Kolawole Salako, said detailed soil surveys would help in-depth study of the capacity for
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
The bill for ignoring nature’s services may not be affordable if we don’t start paying now, says ‘total capitalist’ and environmentalist Pavan Sukhdev. ‘The belief that private financial markets can solve all our problems is the witchcraft of our age.” Those are not unusual sentiments to hear since the global financial turmoil began three years ago, yet
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011
During the first half of 2011, the share of renewable energy sources used by Germans in their total energy mix grew to one-fifth — a hefty boost over 2010. It’s a small step toward Germany’s ambition to phase out nuclear power. Read More
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Digital Documentation 2011 is a two-day international conference that will bring together leading experts from the new media, research and heritage sectors to present their latest state-of-the-art work. The conference is being organised by the Centre for Digital Documentation, with generous support from Leica Geosystems, the Digital Design Studio at the Glasgow School of Art and
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
At a recent press-conference on monitoring and control of natural and human-induced emergency situations was held in “Rossiyskaya gazeta” press-center. The event participants noted that satellite imagery data has been increasingly wider used for emergencies monitoring and response. Each summer Russian forest suffers from fires. On the one hand a forest fire is one of
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
MapMart, the most extensive online source of mapping and image data sets, today announced the availability of the WhiteStar Wells, WhiteStar Grid and WhiteStar Culture data layer products as a new addition to the MapMart Energy Data offering. This addition greatly expands upon the amount of data available to the energy and oil & gas
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Sean Hogan, the recently appointed Chairman of NI Water has a simple, slightly surprising, but laudable ambition: to return NI Water to the anonymity of a well-functioning organisation that no one notices! His determination is to see NI Water working so that it justifies a degree of anonymity. Of course, he is reacting to the high
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
In an effort to bring down power prices and increase carbon-free energy production, Estonia may get a underwater pump hydroelectricity plant along its northern coast. The plant which will be about 200 m below water and produce 300 mw of electricity, although the Ministry of Economy is questioning the need for such large power capacity. Businessmen
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Siemens has successfully installed security and building automation systems in Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in Turkey. Voted the “World’s Best Airport” and the recipient of several other prestigious awards, Sabiha Gökçen serves 11 million passengers annually, and is considered to be the largest ‘earthquake-proof’ building in the world. Read More
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
For years, regional government has been promising to simplify the legislation, which currently covers 1,183 separate articles but successive urban development councillors have only succeeded in adding articles rather than reducing them. But it seems all this will be consigned to the dungeons of history as new regional urban development councillor, Isabel Bonig, announced this week
