Friday, October 1st, 2010
A committee of independent scientists will be created to review water monitoring data collected from Alberta’s oil sands region. “Understanding the impact of the oil sands industry on the watershed of northeastern Alberta is absolutely critical. We need to have total and complete assurance in data before we make decisions on how best to balance
Friday, October 1st, 2010
The German Agricultural Society has once again set up an impartial and international commission of experts who has assess the innovations submitted by EuroTier exhibitors up to the beginning of September on the basis of strict criteria and has awarded now 3 gold and 18 silver medals. Read More
Friday, October 1st, 2010
RapidEye 5m orthoimagery now extends across New Zealand. Earlier this year, national coverage was placed in the archives ready for purchase. Most areas of New Zealand have significantly less than 5 or 10% cloud. “The quick collection of satellite imagery by RapidEye has demonstrated one of the systems advantages. RapidEye can routinely capture large areas
Friday, October 1st, 2010
The Board of the Scottish European Green Energy Centre (SEGEC) is pleased to announce that Chris Bronsdon has been appointed as Chief Executive of SEGEC from 1 October 2010. Chris brings broad experience of the energy scene from his work with British Energy, the Scottish Energy and Environment Foundation and SQW Energy. In new role
Friday, October 1st, 2010
The facility is opposite its headquarters building in Guildford and will enable SSTL to work on a broader range of satellites and provide the capacity to integrate and test more satellites in parallel. Housing about 40 permanent staff, it will incorporate cleanrooms, laboratories and testing facilities for state of the art space engineering. The building
Friday, October 1st, 2010
BBC BELFAST – Transport Minister Conor Murphy has launched a consultation process for a traffic master plan for Belfast city centre. ‘Belfast on the Move’ aims to substantially reduce traffic levels and provide more road space for public transport, pedestrians and cyclists. Around 30,000 vehicles use the steets on both sides of the city hall
Friday, October 1st, 2010
NORWAY POST – Norwegian adventurer and polar explorer Børge Ousland and his friend Thorleif Thorleifson have written a new chapter in Polar History, after they on Thursday completed a voyage which took them through both the North East and the North West Passage. They left Oslo in June on board their 30-foot trimaran sailboat, and the three-month trip first
Friday, October 1st, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – This comes against a background in which universities say they are already struggling to attract the best candidates to important research and teaching posts, and warnings that this month’s spending review could, according to some estimates, take as much as 25% out of Britain’s total spending on scientific research. Read More
Friday, October 1st, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The High Level Forum (HLF) in Paris is the third such event in 2010. The first, held in Accra in February, was entitled “Unearthing the next twenty years of capacity development in Africa”. The second discussion form held in March, in Tunis, focused on invigorating dialogue at the highest levels on the
Friday, October 1st, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – The rivers that serve 80 percent of the world’s population are under threat from environmental stresses, according to a new study. The same factors endanger the biodiversity of 65 percent of the world’s river habitats. Read More
