Monday, April 4th, 2011
The objective of the fair was to create environmental awareness among employees working in the energy and industry with a special focus on young children, which in turn will have a positive effect for the whole community. Every year the event convenes a large number of companies from Qatar under a common theme and the
Monday, April 4th, 2011
Project TRANSMIT – Training Research and Applications Network to Support the Mitigation of Ionospheric Threats, comprises a consortium of leading Universities and Research Centers in Europe, with associated partners from top industry stakeholders. The ionosphere can cause serious problems to GNSS satellites signals, in particular related to extreme solar events. The next solar maximum is
Monday, April 4th, 2011
British architects have become political and cultural punch-bags, and the Budget’s “radically relaxed” planning rules in Enterprise Zones will batter them even more. Ruth Reed, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba), welcomes the Chancellor’s proposal with a pathos-laden hope that the new rules will “protect the essential requirements of sustainability and good
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
The greatest risk is believed to be in Pori, on the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia and at the mouth of the Kokemäenjoki river. More than 20,000 people live within the area that could be susceptible to exceptional seasonal flooding. Matters are exacerbated by the fact that there are a number of locations in
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
he German energy giant RWE on Friday became the first to legally challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to temporarily shut down the country’s oldest nuclear reactors. The company filed a lawsuit in an administrative court in the German city of Kassel against the mandated shutdown of its Biblis A reactor. Read More
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
Statoil, along with partners Eni Norway and Petoro, has made a significant oil discovery on the Skrugard prospect in the Barents Sea, estimmated to contain between 150–250 million recoverable barrels of oil equivalent (boe). Statoil calls it a breakthrough discovery, and one of the most important finds on the Norwegian continental shelf in the last decade. Read
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
However, soils are subjected to many threats, so there is an urgent need to preserve this resource which is not renewable at the Human time scale. The European Commission wants to define a policy for the sustainable management of soils with a view to adopting a legally binding Soil Framework Directive, such as exists for
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
Volunteers from various countries post updates on their neighbourhoods or travel to remote places to map the area before uploading their findings to Google Map Maker, the company said at a conference in Singapore. Contributors can add new roads and landmarks or debate with neighbours about the names of streets on the virtual map, which is
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Use of the high-speed train Fyra between Amsterdam and Rotterdam has more than doubled since the supplementary fee has been slashed, according to NS figures. In the last quarter of 2010, 215,000 people used the train, but that rose to 550,000 in the first three months of 2010. In January, the supplement was scrapped altogether and in
Friday, April 1st, 2011
Dummy barriers are to be erected at level crossings along with automated scanners which detect when pedestrians or cars are clear as part of a campaign to improve safety and cut costs. Network Rail, which operates Britain’s railways, is also due to fund new police detection vans which use number plate recognition technology to catch motorists
