Friday, July 1st, 2011
The volume of annual runoff of almost all of Russia’s rivers will be substantially affected by global climate change, the Emergencies Ministry’s Natural Disaster Center said. Owing to the expected shifts in temperature and rainfall amounts, the annual runoff of rivers located in the Central and the Volga federal districts will change significantly by 2015 –
Friday, July 1st, 2011
Statoil has signed two agreements for the sale of the major part of Statoil’s onshore wind power activities in Norway, enabling the group to focus more of its efforts on offshore wind projects. Statoil, through its subsidiary, signed an agreement for the sale of Statoil’s 50% stake in Sarepta Energi as to Trønder Energi Kraft AS. Another
Friday, July 1st, 2011
An action plan to drive forward Scotland’s renewables revolution, and to meet this Government’s world-leading green energy targets, was launched today by Energy Minister Fergus Ewing. The Renewables Routemap outlines the necessary steps needed to capitalise on the enormous economic potential of Scotland’s green energy capacity and to meet ambitious targets, including supplying 100 per cent
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
This add-on directly integrates Solibri Model Checker and ArchiCAD. The building model is transferred from ArchiCAD to Solibri Model Checker with only one click. The exported models can be checked against several requirements in Solibri Model Checker. During analysis Solibri Model Checker automatically assigns severity classification to all design issues found. The identified design problems
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Dassault Systèmes (3DS) (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced its new online Version 6 platform, open for the developer community, its new store, and its first online cloud business services. Dassault Systèmes also announces its strategic investment in Outscale, a start-up providing next generation
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service is pushing forward in the post-FiReControl environment with a corporate gazetteer management system from Aligned Assets. The Symphony Bluelight system will see them building on the work they did during the FiReControl project in matching their existing address data to the NLPG (National Land and Property Gazetteer) in order to
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI) – a global leader in customer data, analytics and communication software and services – has announced a collaboration with specialist risk and environmental management consultancy JBA Consulting, to enrich its location intelligence solutions with high quality flood risk data across a number of European countries.
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
The latest issue of Law, Culture, and the Humanities contains several articles relating to legal geography, space, and territorialization. Law joins, of course, a variety of other disciplines in taking this “spatial turn.” Read More
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Abu Dhabi will play host to a high-profile international environment conference in December. The Eye on Earth Summit is being organised by the Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (Ead) in partnership with the UN Environment Programme (Unep). The event, which runs between December 12 and 15, will focus on improving society’s access to environmental data. “For all of
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Witnesses said the sudden movement around 200 miles out to sea caused the tide to suddenly shift by 50 metres, creating walls of water. The change in air pressure also generated static that left onlookers’ hair standing on end in the extraordinary environmental events earlier today. There were even reports that the conditions caused fish to leap
