Saturday, July 30th, 2011
To help businesses cope with the adverse economic situation, the Ministry of Finance is planning to reduce land rents for production firms who suffered steep rental hikes following recent changes in a decree. If the proposal is approved by the Government, the businesses, who are now paying 10-30 times more than they did before the hikes,
Saturday, July 30th, 2011
In the early summer of 2011, the Medvezhiy Glacier in Tajikistan, Central Asia, slid abruptly down its valley and for greater distance than it has in at least 22 years. The sudden downhill slide of the glacier raised concern among glaciologists and emergency management groups about a potential glacial outburst flood that could flow down
Saturday, July 30th, 2011
East View Cartographic (EVC) has entered into an exclusive distributorship license with UT-Battelle for an award winning population distribution database. The LandScan High Resolution Global Population Data Set, developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has already seen success in a number of research, educational, humanitarian and corporate applications. LandScan, which refines
Saturday, July 30th, 2011
Ellie Gibson learns how the voyages of trains, planes, tubes, bikes and buses come to life graphically by “data visualisation”. “Information wants to be free” has been one of the rallying cries of geeks, digital activists and hackers since the earliest days of the net. Read More
Friday, July 29th, 2011
The International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO and the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) jointly organized the Symposium on “Water Quality: Current Trends and Expected Climate Change Impacts” during the XXV IUGG General Assembly “Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet” in Melbourne, Australia, on 4-5 July. The objective of the Symposium was to
Friday, July 29th, 2011
The European Commission, in a surprise move, is proposing that its satellite-based Earth observation program be removed from its seven-year budget starting in 2014 and instead be funded by voluntary contributions from individual European governments. The decision to take the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) effort off the commission’s books just as it begins
Friday, July 29th, 2011
Infragistics, the experience design software company and world leader in user interface (UI) development tools, today debuts NetAdvantage for Visual Studio LightSwitch, a powerful and flexible set of Silverlight-based NetAdvantage UI Tools, shells and themes enabling business users and developers to quickly build and share business applications on the desktop, browser and the cloud.
Friday, July 29th, 2011
Customers can easily visualise geographic data and gain better business insights. Germany-based enterprise application software provider SAP is developing its collaboration with Google to allow customers more easily visualise geographic data and make better business decisions. The integration will enable enterprise customers to use Google’s cloud mapping tools with SAP software to manage large data volumes in
Friday, July 29th, 2011
More than 7300 fire officers and officials along with almost 1000 units of equipment have been deployed to extinguish the blazes. In its daily report, EMERCOM stated: “Compared to the previous 24 hours there is a fall in the number of wildfires (by 28 hotbeds) and a rise in the areas on fire (by 3 027.03 ha).
Friday, July 29th, 2011
The continued reliance on a strategy of setting aside land and marine territories as “protected areas” is insufficient to stem global biodiversity loss, says a comprehensive study published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, a journal of the Germany-based Inter-Research Science Centre, on Thursday. Despite an impressively rapid growth of protected land and marine areas worldwide, totalling over 1,00,000
