Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
EEA – Intensive farming has long been a major cause of biodiversity decline in Europe. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) new short assessment examines Europe’s efforts to strike a balance between producing sufficient food and maintaining agro-ecosystems that are rich in biodiversity above and below ground. Read More
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
EU – The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending CZK 500 million (approx. EUR 19 million) to the Vysočina Region (south-east Czech Republic) to improve regional infrastructure and upgrade the local road network. Long-term EIB funds, provided on favourable terms at a time of difficult market conditions, will help the Vysočina Region to implement priority
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
CBC -Ontario and Quebec residents shaken by the magnitude 5.0 earthquake last week are being asked to share their experiences with a federal research project. The epicentre of the June 23 earthquake was about 50 kilometres north of Ottawa, and it was felt across southern and eastern Ontario and western Quebec, as well as in
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
BC GOV – The Province is inviting input until July 9 to develop an implementation plan for the Zero Net Deforestation Act passed earlier this year. The act’s main goal is to achieve zero net deforestation in British Columbia by 2015. Planting trees to convert non-forest lands into forested areas and finding ways to
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has received the report on the first phase of the N360 million World Geodetic Survey of the country’s four international airports for better airspace management and safe air navigation. The project was carried out for NAMA by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that currently
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
PEOPLES DAILY – Development Minister Miguel Jorge said Tuesday that Brazil will invest 735 billion U.S. dollars in the infrastructure, industry and construction sectors in the next three years.At a Brazil-Italy business seminar in Sao Paulo, Jorge said that it is now the best time to invest in the country, whose economy is expected to
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
LANCASHIRE EVENING POST – As many as 10% of Britain’s motorways and A-roads present an unacceptably high risk to drivers, a major report has revealed. Half of all crashes occur on just one tenth of Britain’s road network, the report from the Road Safety Foundation found. Most of the higher-risk roads are in north-west England,
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – Each year, thousands of tons of trees and shrubs are burned in the ovens and cooking fires of the inhabitants of the Puna highland desert plateau in northwestern Argentina. The country’s EcoAndina environmental group has been trying for years to slow the rate of deforestation by pushing solar systems. Today, several hundred
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
SOFIA BULGARIA – The situation with the level of the river Danube in the Bulgarian stretch is still critical, especially in the Bulgarian north-west. Authorities in the town of Lom report a level of over 855 cm. The riverside town park has been flooded an more an more homes suffer from exceptionally high levels of underground water. The port
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
FLIGHTGLOBAL – With a new Soyuz launch site under construction at the Centre Spatial Guyanais outside Kourou, French Guiana, Arianespace and Russian space agency Roscosmos have signed a contract for 10 Soyuz launches. The additional launches and related support will run until 2016. The deal brings the total of number of Soyuz flights from the centre
