Monday, November 8th, 2010
IBM – Working with consultants and researchers from IBM, Shanghai Electric Power Company (Shanghai Power) has installed the Integrated Distribution Outage Planner (IDOP) as it is transforming its power grid to minimize power outages. These outages can jeopardize network reliability and service quality for its customers and as one of the largest power companies in Asia,
Monday, November 8th, 2010
SMH – A Google Maps error is being blamed for Nicaraguan troops accidentally invading Costa Rica last week. The troops have been accused of crossing the hotly disputed Nicaragua border into Costa Rica and setting up camp for the night after taking down a Costa Rican flag and raising the Nicaraguan flag. Read More
Monday, November 8th, 2010
WIND ENERGY – The outlook for Northern Europe’s offshore wind industry couldn’t be any stronger. With £60 million pledged from the Coalition Government, the UK is now not only the largest offshore wind market globally, but is also moving from strength to strength, growing in confidence, and here to stay. Read More
Monday, November 8th, 2010
BBC – Essential web services have come under simulated attack as European nations test their cyber defences. The first-ever cross-European simulation of an all out cyber attack was planned to test how well nations cope as the attacks slow connections. The simulation steadily reduced access to critical services to gauge how nations react. Read More
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The agreement between Russian and Norway on delimitation of the Barents Sea will result in Norway concentrating on more easily accessible resources and withdrawing from the development of the Shtokman gas field, a Russian scientist believes. Vladimir Selin, Chief Research Scientist at the Kola Science Center, believes that the agreement on delimitation of the
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
INHABITAT – Estuaries may be good for more than harboring wildlife and creating beautiful scenery; they could also supply power to the grid, according to researchers at the Dutch Center for Sustainable Water Technology, the University of Groningen and the University of Twente. Read More
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
CABE – There were no fewer than 750 entries and they present a striking urban kaleidoscope from across the country, from Holbeck in Leeds to Weymouth harbour in Dorset. People find beauty in carnivals and colourful street markets but many more entries celebrate nature in some way, from the well groomed Cambridge Backs to weeds randomly
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
LE MONDE FRANCE – After an earthquake, a hurricane but also of conflict, the urgency comes in medicines, tents and bottled water. But not only plead Unesco and the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), which makes the reconstruction of education and continuity of school life priorities. To help States to better anticipate and react quickly, the
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
WEEKLY TRUST – After yet another round of disbursement from the N200 billion Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS) loan that was hitherto laying in banks’ coffers, farmers across the country – especially peasant farmers who produce the bulk of agricultural produce – are still unaware and also finding it difficult to have a piece of the
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – In the Nile Delta town of New Nubaria, about 80 kilometers from the Mediterranean, donkeys, cattle and goats seek shelter in the shade of date palms. Around them, black irrigation tubes stick out of the hot sand. It was here that, in the 1980s, the government turned 250,000 hectares of desert into arable land
