Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has announced the successful commissioning of the country’s first thermal set of 525-MW rating at Maithon Right Bank Thermal Power Project in Jharkhand. The company had won the order for the 2×525 MW greenfield power project outbidding a leading Chinese equipment supplier under an international competitive bidding process from Maithon Power
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
Bulgaria and Romania’s economy ministers have discussed two large-scale hydro-energy projects on the Danube, whose future realization is said to harbor great economic potential. Bulgaria’s Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism Traicho Traikov was received Monday in Bucharest by his counterpart, Romania’s Minister of Economy, Commerce, and Business Environment Ion Ariton. Read More
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
PMA’12, the Fourth International Symposium on Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications, will be held at Shang Hai (China), 31 October -3 November, 2012. Contributions (8 pages or 4 pages extended abstracts) for oral communications and posters in the field of Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications are welcome in the following main topics (including, but not limited to):
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
IFPRI is currently conducting a project entitled “How to achieve food security in a world of growing scarcity: role of technology development strategies”. As part of this project, we have put together a survey to collect expert information about the potential of agricultural technologies (in the broader sense of the word, including agricultural practices) in the
Monday, July 18th, 2011
A framework / network that allows to search, view and download datasets and data series, allows advanced functionality and services (extending the core modules), implicates technical and organisational harmonisation and is accessible for third parties. Read More
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Firefighters have extinguished ten wildfires in the Russian Far East in the past twenty-four hours and are still battling 26 forest fires in the area, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said on Sunday. “Satellite monitoring and aircraft surveillance have registered a total of 36 forest fires in the Far East on an area of over 5,700 hectares. Ten
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Arctic Region attracts more and more attention every year. However, the seas of the Arctic – is not just the territory for industrial development, but the habitat of multiple species of mammals and fish. Head of the Marine Program of the WWF Konstantin Zgurovsky told on-air of the “Voice of Russia” radio broadcasting station about the bio-diversity
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Declining resources, climate change and growing urban populations will transform the cities of the future. But what will these urban centres actually look like? Building successful cities of the future or regenerating urban centres will require a harmonisation with natural surroundings and biodiversity. There has never been a more compelling time to consider how to bring
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Over the past few months I’ve been talking with many people passionate about Information Visualization who share a sense of saturation over a growing number of frivolous projects. The criticism is slightly different from person to person, but it usually goes along these lines: “It’s just visualization for the sake of visualization”, “It’s just eye-candy”,
Monday, July 18th, 2011
Forest Carbon projects are not quick and easy, and they are not cheap“, say private sector forest carbon project developers across Asia. How has the private sector engaged across the region? What have been the main challenges in different countries? What lessons have been learnt? We set about to investigate the private sector engagement & experience
