Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
C3 Technologies today released its first software development kit (SDK) for creating search, navigation and geo-location desktop and mobile applications that utilize the company’s photo-realistic 3D maps. The C3 SDK comes with 3D maps of San Francisco and London for developing and testing applications that can work with the more than 100 maps in the C3
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Despite sustained efforts to combat global deforestation, tropical forest management that provides for human livelihoods and conservation remains an elusive goal. Creative problem solving and knowledge-sharing are key to finding lasting solutions to this intractable problem. Recent innovations are providing new approaches in community engagement, market-based strategies for reducing agricultural encroachment, and carbon-based climate change mitigation
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
The Pakistan Forest Digest is published by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) Islamabad in collaboration with NCCR (North-South) Switzerland. It covers the forest related news published in leading national and local newspaper. It is published in Urdu and English languages. For hard copies of the Urdu version, pl. send an e.mail to [email protected] http://nccr-pakistan.org/publications_pdf/Forests/PakForestDigestAprJun2010.pdf http://nccr-pakistan.org/publications.html#literature2
Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Headwall Photonics’ Hyperspec Point & Stare sensor was named as a finalist for the 2010 Prism Award in the Defense & Security category. The prestigious Prism Award honors leading companies and products around the world that demonstrate the highest degree of innovation in the field of photonics.
Monday, January 10th, 2011
The Finnish city of Turku and Tallinn in Estonia – European Capitals of Culture for 2011 – have decided to cooperate to draw wider attention to the poor state of the Baltic Sea. Turku and Tallinn share approximately ten mutual projects to showcase their geographical proximity as well as cultural and ethnic affinity. According to
Monday, January 10th, 2011
The telephone line connecting a residence to a local exchange (called “central office” in America) consists of a pair of plastic-coated copper wires that are twisted together along their length. The idea of the twisted-pair was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1881 to cancel out any electromagnetic interference and crosstalk between adjacent lines. Read
Monday, January 10th, 2011
People act differently when they are being watched. It’s a fact that authoritarian regimes have long exploited to suppress dissent. But watchfulness can also work to the good and perhaps even stop atrocities. That’s the premise behind the Satellite Sentinel Project, a collaboration between Google, the United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), the Harvard Humanitarian
Monday, January 10th, 2011
The water level in the Maas river in Limburg province will remain high or week but no major floods are expected, the local waterboard said on Sunday. ‘The peak in Roermond went by without problems and we expect the river to be at its highest in Venlo on Monday evening,’ the spokesman told the Volkskrant. Read
Monday, January 10th, 2011
As per report of sources, a group of 54 students has been working on the project ‘SRMSAT’ since 2008 to develop a nano-satellite. The report further added that the weight of satellite was only 10 Kg and it was being develop to monitor greenhouse gases. Reportedly, the estimated cost of project is 1 crore. The satellite
Monday, January 10th, 2011
SCOTSMAN – The appointment of a minister is required to ensure government decisions are environmentally sustainable and to hold departments to account when they fail to meet green targets. A committee of MPs said green issues had not been fully embedded into government because of a lack of political will, and called for a minister for sustainable
