Saturday, June 11th, 2011
A new regulation will seek to monitor whether licensed crop protection products are indeed fulfilling the standards demanded by authorities, Turkey’s Agriculture Ministry has said. The crop protection products, commonly known as pesticides, will be monitored in the production, export, import and application phases, according to the Crop Protection Products Control Regulation that was printed in
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
A major research has established Africasuffers disconnect between science and research, which is turn has slackened its development pace. The study, dubbed Africa Innovation Outlook 2010, was released in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia last week. It was conducted by the African Science and Technology Indicators Initiative (ASTII) to map out the state of science and research on
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Greenland government gives licenses to companies to explore and produce oil and gas. International energy companies have been vying for a stake in Greenland’s oil and gas reserves for months, and now the licenses for exploration and production have been awarded. Last week on Friday, the government of Greenland decided on the allocation of the individual license
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
It’s 9:30 a.m. on a sunny spring day when a Toyota collides with a young mother in Berlin’s Köpenick neighborhood. Her bike is knocked onto the street, the child seat falls off, and her two-year-old son is suddenly lying in the roadway screaming. The boy is lucky. The other drivers manage to brake quickly enough,
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Armchair explorers can “dive” in and view the ocean floor in far greater detail thanks to new topography released through Google Earth, U.S. researchers say. Developed by oceanographers at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory from scientific data collected on research cruises, the new synthesis of seafloor topography improves resolution in covered areas from the former 1-kilometer
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Growing conditions for Ontario, Quebec and Atlantic Canada range from lower to much lower than normal this spring as a result of cool, wet weather, according to early data from the Crop Condition Assessment Program (CCAP) for the 2011 growing season. Corn and soybean planting is delayed in some regions, with the possibility that producers
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
In the past three years the Paola local council has been developing its regeneration action plan (Sustainable Planning for Urban Regeneration – SPUR) aided and supported by the URBACT Programme and the project REPAIR. The project was developed by the council, led by councillor Renald Dalli, and supported by an Urban Local Support Group which
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
There has also been some progress on the Partnership for Modernization, which will be reflected in a joint report. The areas where progress has been made include : the environment; space, including EU involvement in the Soyuz program; Russia’s involvement in Galileo, the EU’s equivalent of GPS; and harmonized rules and standards for industry. But little
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
The ELMF is the premier event in Europe focused on applying the technology of LIDAR and laser scanning to deliver outside mapping and imaging solutions in a timely and cost-effective manner across a variety of markets. The second ELMF is taking place in Salzburg, Austria from 29 – 30 November 2011. Last year’s inaugural event
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
On 15 June, a seminar on waste prevention will be held at COWI’s headquarters in Copenhagen. The seminar is aimed at actors in the construction and building sector who work with waste management. Policy makers at the local and national levels as well as scientists in research organisations are also expected to attend the seminar, which
