Thursday, August 19th, 2010
BARCELONA REPORTER – Spanish oil firm Repsol (REP.MC) said on Monday a consortium it is part of had found a gas field in Bolivia with reserves of 1 trillion cubic feet and test drilling produced 6 million cubic feet a day. Read More
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
GHANA CHRONICLE – Spending on agricultural research and development (R&D) in Ghana doubled from 151 billion cedis to 352 billion cedis between 2000 and 2008, a study by the Agricultural Science and Technology Indicators (ASTI) initiative and the Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI) has indicated. Read More
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
ROSCOSMOS – Local Administration of Tverskaya region decided on introduction of GLONASS on all transport vehicles in the regions, through approving relevant resolution. According to local officials, currently GLONASS introduction has somewhat chaotic character. The resolution will help ordering the process. The document also implies acquisition of the navigation and positioning data from each vehicle in
Thursday, August 19th, 2010
BBC – The Smos spacecraft senses the wetness of soils, and its unique instrument has detailed how the earth became saturated in the monsoon rains. The floods, which began more than two weeks ago in the mountainous northwest, are the worst in recorded history. Some 20 million people and 160,000 sq km of land – a fifth of
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Untitled Document Shipping emits considerable amounts of air pollutants which affect the climate, the natural environment and human health. In collaboration with the Swedish Maritime Administration (SMA), SMHI has developed a new system for calculating emissions from shipping. Knowledge of these has previously been very limited. Shipping is undoubtedly the most significant source of sulphur emissions,
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Untitled Document SMHI has been commissioned by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) to organise a training programme on climate change for decision makers from West Africa. Preparations and selection of participants are currently being carried out, before the course start in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, in November. Read More
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
Untitled Document Please join us for this one hour webinar to learn about the wide array of tools ENVI offers for remote sensing applications of vegetation. Many applications today rely on the knowledge of vegetation health in a given region and over a span of time. Byusing ENVI with multispectral and hyperspectral data sets, much information can
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
CEA-Leti said today that it has designed and created a unique 3D interactive-modeling tool, based on a new user interface that could change the way urban-planning projects are presented. The HIRAM (Humanities, Innovation and Research in the service of Mediation Architecture) modelling tool, which is based on recommendations by architects and urban planners, makes it possible to turn a town-planning model
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
ABC AUSTRALIA – Australian scientists have mapped out the best places across the nation’s southern coast for generating wave energy, all the way from Geraldton in Western Australia to King Island in Tasmania. A new CSIRO energy atlas shows that if just 10 per cent of the energy generated from waves was harnessed it would meet
Wednesday, August 18th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – A Scottish company has won the contract to build one of the world’s most advanced tidal energy turbines. The contract could kickstart a marine energy manufacturing boom in Britain because project developer ScottishPower wants hundreds more turbines to be built in the next few years, creating the prospect of thousands of jobs for Scotland. Read
