Monday, August 1st, 2011
As you watch the Colorado River blasting through Glenwood Canyon, just east of Glenwood Springs, 150 miles west of Denver, it’s hard to imagine water-shortage problems downstream. For about a half mile, the river churns violently over boulders and downed tree branches. It’s a whitewater enthusiast’s dream—or nightmare. The violence of the flow makes it
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Construction is causing more and more subway delays and diversions on weekends, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority does a mediocre job of informing riders of changes, said an audit released Sunday. The agency also sometimes doesn’t do work for the whole time trains are diverted, according to the joint audit by the state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli
Monday, August 1st, 2011
It’s such a fortunate thing that nobody was hurt in Sunday’s frightening collapse of a concrete ceiling grid at the eastern end of the Ville Marie Tunnel, a part of the tunnel which is only partially covered, and where the sunken roadway is exposed to perforated daylight. But that’s a small consolation in the larger context
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Since the 1990s, Indonesia has been criticized internationally for the large amount of smoke it generates in the forests of Sumatra and Kalimantan. The resulting haze sometimes spreads to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand and is estimated to cause $9 billion in losses to tourism, transportation and agriculture across the region each year. An agreement among
Monday, August 1st, 2011
It’s paint-by-numbers for neuroscientists. At the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, researchers have devised a faster way of computing the neural connections that make up the brain. Mapping out this intricate web previously depended on the human eye as no computer was powerful enough to handle the brain’s complex network of 70
Monday, August 1st, 2011
The Earth Observation and Satellite Applications Research and Training Centre (EOSA-RTC), was launched this month (6 July) in collaboration with the African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development programme (AMESD). It is located at the Polytechnic of Namibia and comprises a satellite data receiving station and data centre, which will provide data useful for agriculture. The data,
Monday, August 1st, 2011
The B.C. Interior sure has changed since cartographer David Thompson mapped out most of the area during the fur trading days. For one thing, outposts have grown into towns and cities, rivers now run alongside roads, and once barren land has transformed into ranches, orchards and subdivisions. Read More
Monday, August 1st, 2011
The Bavarian Surveying Administration with the kind assistance of the Surveying Authorities of the states of Thuringia and Saxony as well as other institutions for the 20th Anniversary of German reunification, a traveling exhibition with the motto: separate limits – limits combine. The focus of the exhibition focuses on the development of the border between Bavaria, Thuringia and
Monday, August 1st, 2011
The Institute possesses know-how and expertise to passive and active microwave and contributes significantly to the development and improvement of ground-based, airborne and satellite sensors. His research focuses on the conceptualization and development of new microwave techniques and systems and the associated sensor-specific applications. The tasks of the Institute to implement long-term research programs is in the
Monday, August 1st, 2011
In recent years, nuclear energy was still touted as a necessary bridging technology towards a renewable period. After the disaster in Fukushima, the federal government is now planning the nuclear phase-out within the next 11 years. New coal-and gas-fired power plants should instead be provided at the transition to a largely renewable power supply. Particularly, since the construction
