Monday, May 16th, 2011
The Marine and Coastal Protected Areas Training Center, or DKKA, will begin operations in Akyaka town in the Ula district of Muğla next month. Moreover, it was announced that the center would serve in the international arena as well. Güner Ergün, manager and project coordinator, said DKKA’s activities would be carried out with the support of
Monday, May 16th, 2011
I regret that no final agreement has been reached on a multiannual global plan for sustainable consumption and production in the framework of the UN Convention on Sustainable Development. The intensive negotiations this past week have produced a valuable text for a possible agreement on substance but the conditions were not present on this occasion
Monday, May 16th, 2011
Prime Minister, Samuel Hind says the Amaila falls Hydro-Power Project is moving apace, with government currently working to reach financial closure, since a significant sum is involved in such a large undertaking. He says the administration is doing its best to ensure costs remain at a minimum, despite price fluctuations globally. According to prime minister,
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
You can now track the space shuttle during launch and landing in Google Earth using real-time data from Mission Control. Using live shuttle data, a 3D model of NASA’s space shuttle is plotted in Google Earth to show its current position and trajectory. Learn More
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Two organisations from the property sector have today called on the Government to honour its commitments on energy efficiency ratings, as MPs prepare to debate the Energy Bill in the House of Commons. Senior industry figures have sent an open letter to the Prime Minister and other senior ministers, calling for the Energy Bill to
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
That was the attitude of Natural Resources Canada when they barred an internationally-known Canadian researcher from speaking about his work on the breaking of a prehistoric ice-dam 130 centuries ago until vetted “media lines” could be approved by the minister’s office. Journalists in Canada facing deadlines had to interview British scientists lauding Scott Dallimore’s groundbreaking study
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
The council’s member states also signed a legally binding treaty to cooperate in search and rescue efforts in the event of a disaster in the Arctic. The treaty calls for council members to demonstrate and live up to their capacity to cooperate in search and rescue efforts after a plane crash, an oil spill, a ship
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
On the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago, at 1000 kilometers from the North Pole, a safe home to more than 600,000 samples of seeds and seed. Ultimately, 4.5 million samples will be stored. Read More
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Ahead of his inauguration for a second term in office, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, (SAN), has pressed forward to continue work on the state’s light rail programme as he undertakes a pre-shipment inspection of the trains in Canada to be used by Ekorail, the operators of the programme. The 27 kilometre light metro rail
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
The third session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction ended on Friday with a call for coordinating efforts to make communities more resilient in the face of disasters. “Participants at the third Global Platform have recognized the urgency we face and realized clearly that the world needs to act quickly and in concrete ways
