Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
According to a team of NASA and Russian space and physical scientists, in the days before the March 11 Tohoku earthquake in Japan, the atmosphere directly above the epicenter rapidly heated up. In a presentation at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, the researchers presented data indicating that starting on March 3, the
Sunday, May 22nd, 2011
“The RTPI has long campaigned for a national planning framework for England but the NPPF must be spatial to be effective. National planning must show the geography of planned activities, development and infrastructure and how the Government’s policies and land use designations apply to different parts of the country.”
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
GAF AG announces that it has successfully completed the provision of services in Western Madagascar for the UN-IFAD and ESA. For an area of about 14,000 km² in Madagascar, GAF has provided dedicated state of the art EO products which have been customised to meet the specific user requirements of the UN-IFAD in the best
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
London’s historic and world famous red buses are going green, as the city, like many others around the world strives to cut air pollution and save fuel by introducing hybrid propulsion systems in the cities bus fleet. London’s bus network is one of the biggest traditional transport systems in the world, which comprises roughly 8,500 individual
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Karmasphere, a Big Data Analytics company, announced it is joining with IBM, to help enterprise clients integrate and analyze traditional business data with a growing volume of unstructured data using Apache Hadoop-based software. Karmasphere has integrated its Big Data Analytics software including Karmasphere Studio for developers and Karmasphere Analyst for data and business analysts with
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
South Korea is keen to actively participate in the many projects in the pipeline aimed at developing Qatar’s railway industry. “Both South Korea and Qatar have made great efforts on the important issue of transportation. Korea has implemented policies in building transport facilities in cities to meet transport demands. I hope Korea and Qatar will have
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Two groundbreaking ceremonies were also held Thursday there to launch the Çetin hydroelectric power station, a project by European renewable energy firm Statkraft, and Kirazlık hydroelectric power station, owned by Baren Enerji. Limak has a 20 percent share in Kirazlık, executives said. Alkumru is Turkey’s second biggest electricity generating dam run by the private sector, according
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Wales, as one of very few nations to have included sustainability in its constitution, has a legal duty to promote sustainable development in all its activities; this agenda is driven by a number of policy documents, the most recent being One Wales: One Planet (2009), and builds upon the 2005 UK framework, One Future: Different
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Alberta’s environment minister defended the Canadian province’s environmental record, but said air- and water-quality monitoring related to oil-sands production hasn’t been coordinated and needs to be improved. Rob Renner, in an interview, said the province’s environmental record, including its air and water monitoring, has been unfairly portrayed by critics as inadequate. He said the province has
Saturday, May 21st, 2011
Shri Anand Sharma Union Minister for Commerce & Industry expressed hope that the ongoing ‘India Show’ will be a unique opportunity for the African businesses to deepen and strengthen existing ties and forge new linkages with Indian companies. Shri Sharma inaugurated India Show at Millennium Hall, Addis Ababa today.
