Saturday, May 29th, 2010
DEFRA – Statistics from the Defra Survey of Land Managed under the Campaign for the Farmed Environment for the 2009/10 crop year were released on 26 May. The survey is the first of the on-going monitoring surveys following that of the baseline, which ran in November 2009. The survey was run in the middle of
Saturday, May 29th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE: OPINION – Our guest commentators Dr. Miquel Muñoz Cabré and Bernd Sommer argue that the little-known UN Commisson on Sustainable Development is not effective enough and needs restructuring to live up to its objectives. Read More
Friday, May 28th, 2010
GOV TECHNOLOGY – The federal government is leading the way, bringing governance closer to the citizenry than ever before. “Gov 2.0 is taking constituent services to the next level, by leveraging and encouraging more citizen participation through Web 2.0 technologies,” said Jack Dangermond, owner/founder of ESRI, the industry leader in GIS. Read More
Friday, May 28th, 2010
RIA NOVOSTI – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has called for increasing responsibility of companies blamed for environmental pollution in Russia. “We should think of increasing responsibility for environmental offences,” Medvedev said during a session of the State Council on ecology. “The responsibility should be tough. I want everyone to understand this.” The Russian president said
Friday, May 28th, 2010
HELSINGIN SANOMAT – The Forestry Development Centre Tapio has developed national forest management practice recommendations for the more effective harvesting of energy wood.Tapio is an expert organisation under the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, which is why its recommendations in the forest sector enjoy a semi-official status. Read More
Friday, May 28th, 2010
TELEGRAPH UK – The Royal Society is to create a panel to put together a consensus statement after the assertion by 43 Fellows that its messages failed to draw a line between fact and conjecture, the BBC claimed. The panel, chaired by John Pethica, vice-president of the Society, will publish the document in September after
Friday, May 28th, 2010
GOV INDIA – India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma announced that they had agreed to set up a trilateral satellite program, at the fourth Summit of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) Dialogue Forum held in Brasilia, Brazil, on 15 April 2010. The program will
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Arianespace marks the 50th flight of Ariane 5 when this workhorse heavy-lift launcher successfully lofts the ASTRA 3B commercial telecommunications satellite and Germany’s COMSATBw-2 secure military relay platform. Read More
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
The disaster alert status in Germany’s Brandenburg state has been bumped up to level four as high waters continued to menace the region. Water levels along the Oder and Neisse rivers are still climbing. Read More
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Worried about the poor state of electricity generation in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan has directed the ministry of power and other relevant agencies to immediately restart the implementation of power sector reforms. The Federal Government is also jointly executing a $300 million pilot project in renewable energy, with the provision of $100 million, while
