Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
The GeoInformation Group, publishers of Cities Revealed and UKMap, are pleased to announce the release of Solar Energy Mapping, a brand new product that identifies buildings potentially suitable for solar panel installation. Using highly accurate 3D building information and mapping techniques buildings are identified and graded by the amount of sun they receive to determine their
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
The population of the Netherlands has grown in the northern central belt and around other urban centres but is shrinking in some border areas, the national statistics office CBS said on Monday. The population has grown by 269,000 or 1.6% since 2005, the CBS said. The population of Utrecht has grown by 30,000 and Amsterdam
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Outwardly, it looked like just another big space launch — and those happen about once a week, from spaceports all around the world. But Friday’s blast-off of a rocket, carrying a Chinese GPS-style navigation satellite, from the Xi Chang Satellite Launch Center was different. It set a record for successful Chinese launches in one year:
Monday, December 27th, 2010
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that it has started commercial operation of eco-friendly full-size electric buses on the Mt. Namsan circular routes as of December 21. It is the first time in the world that electronic buses have been put into commercial operations. Read More
Monday, December 27th, 2010
GCC countries plan to invest about $3 trillion on infrastructure, leisure and tourism sector by 2020 to diversify their economies and exports as well to get the advantage of growing trade and investment ties with China and India, says a report. “Having realised the urgent need for economic diversification since the past few years, focus on
Monday, December 27th, 2010
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond today confirmed that the Government’s proposed high speed rail network – which would link London to the West Midlands, Manchester and Leeds – will include a direct link to Heathrow and to the European high speed rail network. Read More
Monday, December 27th, 2010
Karre further expressed hopes that a Memorandum of Understanding on environment and energy technology and sustainable urban development cooperation will be shortly signed with the UAE. A Swedish presence in Masdar City is also under way and will be realised in 2011, with several companies already interested,” she stressed adding that a “SymbioCity – Sustainability
Monday, December 27th, 2010
In what could revive controversy over the state of glaciers in the Himalayas, researchers associated with the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and the government-run Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology suggest that aerosols such as soot—tiny particles that are often the result of insufficiently burnt gases—may be playing a key role in affecting glacier health.
Monday, December 27th, 2010
The year started badly after the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit and got worse with the ‘climategate’ scandal and the largest oil spill in US history. But it was a good year for tigers and wildlife. Read More
Saturday, December 25th, 2010
For years, Nokia effortlessly dominated the cell phone market. But then Apple and Google muscled in on its turf and changed the game forever. The Finnish company is pinning its hopes on a new operating system, but it might be too little, too late. Read More
