Friday, June 24th, 2011
The 21st century has brought new challenges for forest management at a time when global climate change is becoming increasingly apparent. Additional to various goods and services being provided to human beings, forest ecosystems are a large store of terrestrial carbon and account for a major part of the carbon exchange between the atmosphere and
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Modernity is often the enemy of conservation, as our 21st-Century lifestyles put ever greater pressure on the natural world. But some modern inventions may also hold the key to saving species in the future. Read More
Friday, June 24th, 2011
Norwegians finally dragged themselves off their sofas on Wednesday as the country’s latest reality television craze came to a close. Viewers were glued to their screens for nearly six days, but it wasn’t typical reality-show antics that held their gaze — it was a cruise ship gliding through the fjords. Read More
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
The two Soyuz launchers that will fly the first four satellites of Europe’s Galileo navigation system into orbit have arrived at Kourou harbour in French Guiana, completing a journey that took them halfway round the world. The first two Galileo In Orbit Validation satellites are set to be launched from Europe’s Spaceport on 20 October, with
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
As of June 20 over 50 fires were registered in Irkutsk Region within the area of about 700 hectares. On June 21 there were registered 62 fires to the total area of 1,771 thousand hectares in the region with no threat to residential districts, – reports RIA-Novosti.IT was also reported that fires in Chunsky District
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
The Climate Challenge Fund is the Scottish Government’s major communities and climate change programme. This review investigated the impacts and success factors of 21 projects. Largely, the review found that projects were making a difference locally – delivering food growing spaces, providing home insulation, encouraging changes in energy behaviours. Summary of the Review is available and Report
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Some GPS-related news. The Japanese government – with the the assistance of private firms – is ramping up research on a Japanese version of the Global Positioning System in a bid to turn satellite-based technologies into a key export, the Nikkeireports. Plans are afoot to conduct joint reserach and development on this – nine firms and two
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
A sea of wildfires are burning in eastern Russia. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image shows the scattered wildfires. While numerous of individual fires left of Lake Baikal are producing the smoke, a fire at the top left of this image appears to be producing a majority of it. The MODIS instrument that flies aboard
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
“Sweden wants to highlight the strong impact that black carbon, ozone and methane have on the environment alongside long-lived greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. A reduction could produce the necessary rapid effects required to assist the climate,” says Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren. SLCFs only exist for a short time in the atmosphere, but
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
After reconstructing sea level patterns over the last 2,000 years for the first time ever, researchers have found that the dawn of the industrial age initiated an unprecedented rise in waters. But critics complain the study is too narrow. Read More
