Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
UPI – The Scottish government has more than $49 million set aside for forestry projects that will help protect the country’s biodiversity, the environment secretary said. Scottish Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead said the government approved a plan to protect forests and wildlife as part of a broad-reaching rural plan. Read More
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
RUSSIA IC – This Sunday Russian project to rival America’s GPS suffered setback. Three satellites compliting the Glonass system failed to reach the orbit. The crash in the Pacific was caused by a programming error. The crash cost approximately $500 million, and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered a full audit of the entire $2 billion program
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
NIGERIAN TRIBUNE – The vice chancellor, who stated this on Tuesday at the opening ceremony of a summit on climate change and desertification held at the Sokoto Energy Research Centre in UDUS, said 90 institutions around the world applied for the grant and were pruned to nine after which the university was adjudged as the best
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
CIBER PAIS – Broadband in Spain remains expensive and scarce. That is at least the diagnosis of the last report of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In June, the Spanish broadband penetration is 22.2 connections per 100 inhabitants, below the OECD average (24.2), and is ranked twentieth in the list headed by the Netherlands (37.8
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
I’m somewhat surprised by the reasoning of Sergey Miller in the article “On actions of the Earth from Space Association Management”. In fact I’m one of the originators for founding the Earth from Space Association and I feel the need in discussions within the framework of specialized informal site for clarification of law in the area of satellite
Wednesday, December 8th, 2010
I wanted to share with you the outcome of the Forum on Earth Observations IV – Climate, Energy, and National Security: Meeting the Environmental Information Challenge. We have widely disseminated this meeting summary to the Hill, industry, academia, NGOs and government agencies. It can also be found in the event web site (www.ForumonEo4.com). I want to also
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
DER SPIEGEL – The Mexican beach resort is not really such a bad place to stage a tribunal for the world’s greatest environmental sinner: Mankind. A local environmental protection group, “Cielo, Tierra y Mar,” made that point at last week’s opening of the mega-conference. In terms of protecting the climate, “Cancun is the best example of
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Scotland is to design a blueprint to ensure carbon capture and storage technology (CCS) can be implemented effectively around the world. The Global CCS Institute has asked Scotland to develop a toolkit to help nations test the strength of regulations and the permitting process, build knowledge and test public engagement, ensuring CCS can be safely
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Alibre Inc. announced the inclusion of the simple, yet powerful rapid concept creation and surfacing design tool, Moment of InspirationTM (MoI), in Alibre Design Expert. Created by Michael Gibson, the original designer of the Rhino modeling tool, MoI makes product and concept design easy, fast, and accessible to more designers.
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
MecSoft Europe, the exclusive distributor of MecSoft Corporation products in Europe and a leader in mid-range CAM software, today announced the release of a new VisualMILL for SolidWorks configuration called PRO/DUO. “With our PRO/DUO product, multiple operators have the freedom to choose their preferred programming environment,” stated Ulrich Oehler, CEO of MecSoft Europe.
