Sunday, February 26th, 2012
An immense landfill project is currently underway that will transform Copenhagen’s shape and size. Like plastic surgeons who take fat from a patient’s buttocks to fill out their lips, city engineers are stealing earth from under the city’s streets to extend its waterfront and create the brand new Nordhavn district. Read More
Sunday, February 26th, 2012
Last May, the Prince of Wales gave a speech on sustainability at Georgetown. Many of us who heard it thought it was seminal. First, that it came from a public figure whose pronouncements must be moderate and moderated; second, because it was such a strong, specific statement of principles many of us have believed in
Sunday, February 26th, 2012
With London and southeast England suffering through a particularly dry winter, UK residents are being asked to watch their water use. But some are pushing for a more dramatic solution. Read More
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Russia is planning to launch at least 100 military satellites in the next 10 years to boost its reconnaissance and missile detection capabilities, head of Russian Space Agency Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin said on Wednesday. “The new 100 satellites will provide us with better quality intelligence, faster and more reliable communications,” Popovkin said in an interview with
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Almost a year after the Japanese Tohoku earthquake and mega-tsunami, the Pacific Ocean is still dealing with the consequences of the catastrophe. A mass of debris was washed out to sea as floodwaters receded from the land, and some of that wreckage continues to float around the ocean. Most of it headed eastwards, according to modelling
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s launching of Chandrayaan-1, the country’s first-ever moon probe, that detected water on the moon and its subsequent announcement that it would land an Indian on the planet by 2020 were celebrated events that sent sky-high the scientific community’s fame a couple of years back. So any fall from such dizzying and
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
The 28th Chinese expedition to the South Pole took aerial photos of the Dark Glacier on the fringes of the Antarctic Ice Sheet with the use of a helicopter, Xinhua reports. Mo Yubing, from the Heilongjiang Geographical Mapping Bureau, said that the whole process was carried out using a 60 million pixel digital camera attached to
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
“Italian agriculture is now in a real situation of emergency. One farm out of three is at risk. Budgets are more and more ‘in the red’. Production costs (especially beacuse of the increase in the price of diesel), are uncomfortably soaring and so are contributions and the suffocating ‘weight’ of bureaucracy. In 2011, more than
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
According to The Huffington Post, a report commissioned by the Netherlands-based Wetlands International said Malaysia is uprooting an average of 2% of its rainforests in Sarawak every year, its largest state located on the island of Borneo, or nearly 10% in the past five years. Read More
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
An out-of-date chart at St Angelo airport may have been consulted by the pilot of a helicopter that crashed killing three men, an inquest heard. Charles Stisted, Ian Wooldridge, and their pilot Anthony Smith died when their aircraft hit Shanlieve Mountain in the Mournes in October 2010. Read More
