Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
ISPRA ITALY – The fifth report on the climate in Italy shows the development in 2009 of the main climate indicators derived from the National System for the collection, compilation and dissemination of climatological data of environmental interest, created in collaboration with ISPRA data bodies retain the main observational networks on the national territory. Read
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
IFREMER – Mission accomplished: MoMARSAT oceanographic campaign, which began on 1 October 2010, jointly conducted by Ifremer and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) (CNRS / Université Paris Diderot, UPMC), was completed Saturday, October 16 successfully. One of the first seafloor observatories has now been installed and transmits data to the Centre Ifremer de
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The future center for oil and gas lies in the eastern parts of the Barents Sea, believes the country’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Riis-Johansen. The minister called September 15, when Norway and Russian signed an agreement on delimitation of the Barents and Polar Sea “a historical date”, and said that
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
HURRIYET TURKEY- Turkey has been experiencing a great housing evolution over the last 10 years, Erdoğan Bayraktar, head of the Housing Development Administration of Turkey, or TOKİ, said Thursday. Speaking at the Housing Conference held in Istanbul, Bayraktar said, “TOKİ has constructed a total of 460,000 houses over the decade and the institution is about
Friday, October 22nd, 2010
RIA NOVOSTI – Russia will put eight Glonass-M satellites into orbit in 2011-2013 to ensure the effective operation of its satellite navigation network, a Russian space industry official said. Read More
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
SWISSINFO – A new type of accommodation is going to appear near Zurich: flats made to measure for people suffering from a rare allergy. People who are affected by Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS) can hope for a better life now that a unique project in Europe is proposing to create special homes for them. “I have spent thousands
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
RWANDA NEW TIMES – Rwanda’s huge infrastructure gap particularly in areas of energy and transportation dampens private sector productivity and are a constraint to growth, a senior at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said. This is in addition to higher transport, water and power costs that also are a major obstacle to economic development. Read More
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – Shtokman Development AG intends to pursue transparency as regards information policy, the Head of Information Policy and Communications Department Dmitry Seregin says to BarentsObserver. Today the representatives of Shtokman Development AG invited Murmansk journalists onboard of Lenin ice-breaker (now serving as a museum) to discuss ways of cooperation in the framework of
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
RIA NOVOSTI – The three-day forum, held amid a wave of criticism of the forest management system in Russia following this past summer’s wildfires thatdestroyed 11 million hectares of crops, will gather officials, businessmen and environmentalists. An unprecedented heat wave hit European Russia this summer, sparking wildfires and severe droughts in many regions. More than 50 people died
Thursday, October 21st, 2010
EU – A three-year study project examining the benefits the world gets for free from nature has published its final report. TEEB – The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity – has gathered the best available economic evidence showing that the costs brought by the degradation of ecosystems and the loss of biodiversity are nothing short of
