Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
ROSCOSMOS – M2M Telematica, with support from PEUGEOT and Roscosmos, arranges a rally to Baikonur. The rally is devoted to the 100th launch in the International Space Station program. Soyuz TMA-19 is to blast of from Baikonur on June 16.The rally starts on June 10 from Moscow, and to cover about 5000 km, eventually to
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
EEA – The present report analyses options for scaling up existing estimates of ecosystem service values to larger geographical scales. It also presents a case study of wetlands at the European level and discusses the results and policy applications. Read More
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The Mozambican authorities are preparing a contingency plan to deal with marine hydrocarbon pollution. This National Contingency Plan to Fight Against Hydrocarbon Pollution was drafted by the National Marine Institute (INAMAR) and is to be completed by November this year. Read More
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
TIMES LIVE SA – The “3D World Created by Sony” allows visitors to watch highlights of the 25 matches filmed during the 2010 Fifa World Cup in full 3D screening. The 240-seater dome in Nelson Mandela Square will feature not only 3D football images, but will provide entertainment including music, movies and games during the
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
24 DASH – The London Borough of Sutton has won a £150,000 grant to help make businesses inthe UK’s first ‘sustainable suburb’ greener and more cost effective. Sutton Council will work with environmental charity BioRegional to give local businesses in Hackbridge the skills they need to reduce their impact on the environment and make the
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – n the decades since, space has become rather more cluttered: in the same way that once-pristine countryside is now littered with fly-tipped fridges, rusting cars, soggy fag ends and squashed tinnies, space, thanks to humans, now boasts an estimated 5,500 tonnes of redundant spacecraft that were abandoned once their mission came to
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
NORWAY POST – Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will succeed former UK prime minister Gordon Brown as co-chair of a U.N. group looking at ways to raise funds to help poor nations to combat climate. Read More
Monday, June 7th, 2010
ITAR TASS – Russia’s “High-Latitude Arctic” expedition is heading for the northern port of Murmansk. Russian polar explorers, members of the “High-Latitude Arctic-2010” expedition and the crew of the icebreaker ‘Rossia’ officially closed the North Pole – 37 drifting station in the Arctic on Saturday. Read More
Monday, June 7th, 2010
EU – The European Commission has launched Scientix, a new web-portal targeted towards teachers, researchers, policy makers, local actors, parents and anyone interested in science education. Scientix will give access to teaching materials, research results and policy documents from European science education projects financed by the European Union and by various national initiatives. The new
Monday, June 7th, 2010
NATIONAL UAE – Climate negotiators are in the German city of Bonn this week debating a stalled proposal to award UN-administered carbon credits to projects that capture and bury carbon dioxide. Read More
