Saturday, February 26th, 2011
Firms should be forced to pay rent to dig up Glasgow’s roads in a bid to halt the growing pothole crisis. The call was made by the city’s roads boss Robert Booth after it was revealed utility companies could be rewarded for doing their jobs. Read More
Friday, February 25th, 2011
According to international studies, Peru is among the countries hardest hit by climate change. The general population regularly struggles with the fall-out from natural disasters, water shortages and agricultural degradation. But experts believe that there is substantial potential for gaining electricity from hydropower in the South American country – which already depends on hydropower stations for 60
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
The trade corridors are: phase two of the Mozambique Spatial Development Initiative (SDI) programme, phase two of the Tanzania SDI, phase two of Democratic of Congo (DRC) SDI, phase one of the Angola-Namibia-South Africa SDI and phase one of the Zimbabwe SDI. Read More
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
A follow-up performance audit on the progress registered in the exploitation of renewable energy sources in Malta has been presented to Parliament by the Auditor General. The study was requested by the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee during its deliberations of the performance audit report: Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency in Malta, published in September 2009. Read
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Russia will launch two extra navigation satellites, after three crashed, to provide extra insurance for the success of its bid to create a rival to the U.S. system, a news agency reported on Wednesday. The GLONASS satellites that plunged into the Pacific Ocean in December were the final three of 24 Russia had needed to
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Councillors voted unanimously to hold off from approving the region’s growth strategy, set to replace Metro Vancouver’s existing Livable Region Strategic Plan. The 30-year strategy seeks to promote compact, sustainable and prosperous urban areas in the Metro region. In West Vancouver, the new plan identifies an “urban containment boundary” that runs through the district’s Upper Lands
Thursday, February 24th, 2011
“The main problem that we face is a lack of skills among traditionally experienced practitioners who do not have the knowledge and understanding about carbon counting with which we are equipping our new graduates and whose established thinking and methods limit the effectiveness of those new graduates whose work they manage and direct in daily
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator, and Johann-Dietrich Wörner, Chairman of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) Executive Board, shared personal reflections, perspectives on international collaboration and a look at the challenges that lie ahead in space exploration in a ‘Masters with Masters’ event at NASA Headquarters. Read More
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
At 12:51 p.m. on February 22, 2011 a magnitude 6.3 earthquake hit the South Island of New Zealand near the city of Christchurch. The Esri distributor in New Zealand, Eagle Technology Group in collaboration with Environment Canterbury has published an incident map to assist the emergency effort. This is largest aftershock following the 7.1 quake that
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Geographical indications (GIs) have been a neglected area in the various fora addressing biodiversity and intellectual property. This neglect is due to several reasons, among them the fact that GIs were long viewed as a protectionist strategy and an issue of interest mainly to Mediterranean Europe. The situation changed only in the last decade or
