Friday, February 17th, 2012
The environment is already affecting patterns of human migration. On the island of Hatia, along coastal Bangladesh, 22 percent of households have migrated to cities as a coping strategy following tidal surges. But we would be wrong to assume that our only concern should be for the millions of people who might try to leave areas
Friday, February 17th, 2012
For many years solar energy was only profitable because of state subsidies. But photovoltaic cell prices recently dropped significantly, making solar energy as cheap as standard electricity. Developments on the international solar electricity market are proceeding at a rapid pace. These days a solar cell costs just half of what it did four years ago. Solar
Friday, February 17th, 2012
The UK is to sign a deal with France to strengthen co-operation in the development of civil nuclear energy. The government says it reiterates the UK’s commitment to nuclear energy “as part of a diversified energy mix”. Read More
Friday, February 17th, 2012
Cybercrimes can be defined as offences that are committed against individuals or groups of individuals with a criminal motive to intentionally harm the reputation of the victim or cause physical or mental harm. Read More
Friday, February 17th, 2012
To create the map I used open data from several online sources. I downloaded bathymetry data from NOAA, bouys and channel data from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation, and some road and point of interest data from OpenStreetMap. I needed several tools to work with the data and create the map. To manipulate the raster
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
With funding from NOAA and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), they have developed a modelling system that NOAA will use to generate ET estimates over the continental United States. NOAA will evaluate these ET products to see how well they work for operational hydrologic and meteorological modeling. One application of the remotely sensed
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Information in sensitive health records could be used for better health planning, but opponents argue patients should have greater control over who accesses their files. Read More
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Launched to mark the 50 th anniversary of the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the first collaborative photographic inventory of representations of space in the public space using the Geoportal API for geolocation. Cosmothropos is a photography project to inventory the collective representations of space or references to space in public spaces. He invited as many to engage in
Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has announced that the Norwegian Government intends to start additional seismic surveys further north in the previously disputed area of the Barents Sea. Stoltenberg made the announcement in a speech to the Oslo Energy Forum on Wednesday evening. Seismic surveys will start this summer and will continue into 2013. Read More
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
Sistema JSFC (“Sistema”) (LSE:SSA), the largest diversified public financial corporation in Russia and the CIS, today announces that it has increased its stake in OJSC Navigation Information Systems (“NIS”) from 51% to 70% through an acquisition of an additional issue of NIS’ shares. Sistema paid for the shares by contributing its 51% stake in M2M
