Tuesday, November 16th, 2010
WEB URBANIST – Not only does ‘The Guitar Store’ in Southampton, England look exactly like a guitar amp (especially when the security grate is down) – but the knobs go up to 11. Read More
Monday, November 15th, 2010
MATIMOP – T he Eureka cluster for water, has been officially labeled by the EUREKA Program. ACQUEAU is supported by more than 20 industries from Europe including our national water company Mekorot. Acqueau will support the funding applied research with an objective of 500 millions Euros for 10 years. It will support the development of know-how and new technologies developments addressing
Monday, November 15th, 2010
The project will assess GNSS signal reception and its impact on basic positioning service capabilities, and it will look at the performance of commercial, ‘off-the-shelf’ GNSS receivers in terms of multi-signal positioning. The GSC project was launched in March 2009 and will run for about two years. At a recent GSC workshop in Brussels, European
Monday, November 15th, 2010
STOCKHOLM LOCAL – Sweden’s Volvo Group announced on Thursday that it will become the world’s first vehicle manufacturer to join the World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF) Climate Savers Program. Read More
Monday, November 15th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – Twenty percent of the Port of Murmansk will be sold in an auction in 2011. According to the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, a 20 percent stake of the port will be sold in an auction next year. Read More
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
SWEDISH SPACE CORP – ESA’s Earth-observing satellite Envisat has moved to a lower orbit in order to conserve fuel and extend its life by three years. This means three more years of satellite operations at the ESA Satellite Station at Salmijarvi, 38 km east of Kiruna, in northern Sweden. Read More
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
ARAB NETWORK – Eng. Abdulqadir bin Ahmed al Hadad, Deputy Head of Dhofar Municipality and member of Oman Environmental Services Holding Company’s Board pointed out that awarding this vital project by the government, represented by the company comes to complete efforts targeting the protection of public health aspects in the community. Read More
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – At least one in five of the companies using the largest amounts of waterin the world is already experiencing damage to their business from drought and other shortages, flooding, and rising prices. The wide scope of commercial problems posed by growing pressure on global water supplies and changing weather patterns is revealed by a survey of the
Sunday, November 14th, 2010
Millions more people across Asia will become food insecure due to increased water scarcities, reinforcing the need for greater efficiency in both irrigated and rain-fed rice production. “The food security of hundreds of millions of people will be adversely affected,” Robert Zeigler, director-general of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) told IRIN on the sidelines of
Saturday, November 13th, 2010
KLIMA BURO – The North German Climate Atlas informs about the current state of research on the possible future climate change in northern Germany. The Climate Atlas is designed for interactivity. The representation for model users shows where individual climate calculations are by range. Read More
