Sunday, September 4th, 2011
Rwanda has become the latest beneficiary of China’s foray into East Africa as the Asian giant seeks to control the region’s economic landscape, also targeted by Japan and India. China last week gave Rwanda $15.7 million to boost trade between the two countries. Rwanda will receive half the amount as a grant and the remaining 50 million
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
As Americans prepare for the holiday weekend, President Obama has announced that he doesn’t plan on enforcing a law that would have prevented 12,000 deaths every year by protecting Americans from ozone pollution. The President, along with Big Oil and the other corporate polluters whose interest he is serving with this decision, are hoping you
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Maps of Samur-Yalama National Park and Samur-Yalama State Natural Reserve have been prepared. State Committee on Land and Cartography of Azerbaijan has reported that work has been carried out within realization of decision №156s of the Cabinet of Ministers from 16 June 2011. Work on cartography of these protected territories was then committed to Ecology and
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Computer simulations of the weather workings of the entire planet will be able to make forecasts to within a few kilometers accuracy, helping predict the effects of deadly weather systems. But the world may have to wait 20 to 40 years’ for such accurate information on weather events like El Nino as computer capacity grows, a
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
Chile’s national oil and gas corporation, ENAP, announced its plans to drill 10 new exploratory wells in the Magallanes Region, northwest of Punta Arenas in the extreme south of Chile’s Patagonia. A total of US$30 million has been slated for the project. Read More
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011
New archeological evidence from ancient first nations habitations along the coasts of B.C. and Alaska show thousands of years of uninterrupted herring abundance, a trend that ended with the devastating mismanagement of the fishery in the mid-20th century, researchers say. That evidence, combined with the collapse of dozens of local spawning grounds, suggests that genetically distinct
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
A new map of food security risk around the world is, in some ways, depressingly familiar. Sub-saharan Africa leaps out as the place where the most people fear for their next meal, while the rich world has more to fear from obesity. But there’s plenty of salutary reminders and fascinating detail, like India’s food problems
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
With the deal, announced this week, ExxonMobil replaces BP as Rosneft’s strategic partner in the Arctic. According to the deal, the two companies will jointly map and develop the three East Prinovozemelsky License Blocks in the Kara Sea, an area covering 126,000 square kilometers. The blocks are identical to the areas included in the deal
Friday, September 2nd, 2011
Breaking up the national rail network into separate chunks and putting services out to tender will reduce delays, according to research by network operator ProRail quoted in Thursday’s Volkskrant. This is because services will not be so interdependent, reducing the domino effect of delays, ProRail is quoting as saying. Read More
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Norway’s Statkraft has decided to build Stamåsen 1 wind farm in Sweden. This means that from September, Statkraft will have two large wind farms under construction in Central Sweden. Stamåsen 1 wind farm will be established in cooperation with SCA and will consist of 26 wind turbines, each with a capacity of 2.3 MW. Read More
