Friday, August 13th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Response to disasters and emergencies in northern Kenya continues to be hampered by lack of infrastructure – airstrips, communication, health facilities and personnel – with aid workers and disaster response experts calling for more preparedness. Prepositioning more emergency supplies in “rescue centres” in key locations would greatly enhance disaster response, they say.
Friday, August 13th, 2010
HURRIYET TURKEY – Limak Holding, a Turkish group with operations in tourism, energy, cement, technology and aviation, on Thursday signed a Public Private Partnership, or PPP, agreement with the Republic of Kosovo regarding expansion and operation of Pristina International Airport for 20 years. Read More
Friday, August 13th, 2010
DER SPIEGEL – Notably, the company chose August to make the announcement and to launch a website where private residents are being given one month to submit requests to have images of their homes or businesses blurred out. It’s a month when Germany’s politicians and the residents of about half of the country’s states are
Friday, August 13th, 2010
IBN LIVE – The Government has proposed to undertake geospatial mapping of the states with regard to the unavailability of primary, secondary and higher education institutions to ensure that no areas are left without schools and colleges. This exercise will help the Government to get information for setting up institutions as per the requirement, so
Friday, August 13th, 2010
BBC – A cable which will link wave energy machines off the Cornwall coast with the national grid is about 200m (650ft) from the shore. The cable for the £42m Wave Hub project was dragged by tug from a ship 2km (1.25 miles) offshore and was connected to a winch on land. The winch is
Friday, August 13th, 2010
AP – Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It’s not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way. The weather-related cataclysms of July and
Friday, August 13th, 2010
INDEPENDENT UK – China’s growing thirst for water is driving one of the world’s biggest mass relocations, with 440,000 people leaving their homes to make way for a huge man-made canal project to channel water to drought-prone Beijing. An advance party of 499 villagers were moved yesterday from their homes near Wuhan in Hubei
Friday, August 13th, 2010
RIA NOVOSTI – Satellite monitoring showed a significant drop in the number of wildfire hotspots on the Russian territory with only 359 registered on Thursday, according to the ScanEx website that receives information from two NASA satellites. The Aqua satellite, equipped with an atmospheric infrared sounder, and Terra, equipped with a thermal emission and reflection
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
GLASGOW EVENING TIMES – Hopes are high that a final plan will be complete by the end of this year to allow an early decision and work to start as soon as possible. It would be the first significant modernisation in more than 30 years. Glasgow SNP MSP Bob Doris met with Transport Minister Stewart
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
L’EXPRESS FRANCE – No problem – according to the Institute of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN). Almost 4,000 hectares of land polluted by nuclear fallout from Chernobyl have been affected by fires in Russia since July. This was announced by the Forest Service monitoring the Russian Wednesday, August 11. Read More
