Monday, August 29th, 2011
Sweden’s housing minister Stefan Attefall told potential students that they should avoid studying in Stockholm to ease pressure on housing in the Swedish capital. He even went as far as to propose cutting the number of student places in the city. These comments are absurd and threaten the region’s future growth – and with it jobs and public
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
Archeologists in the Arctic hoping to find Sir John Franklin’s long-lost ships neared the end of their latest search Friday with no shipwreck in sight. It appears HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, two of the most sought-after wrecks in Canada, will remain undiscovered for now. Parks Canada archeologists spent the last six days combing an area west
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
The Chinese military’s naval wing published its first digital international standard nautical chart covering the country’s maritime territory, including the Yellow, East China, South China and Bohai seas. The official nautical chart published by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy conforms with the International Hydrographic Organisation’s (IHO’s) S-57 standard. Read More
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
Heads are expected to roll in Russia’s space industry in the wake of the recent failures, above all the August 24 incident when the cargo spaceship Progress M-12M crashed in the Altai Region in southern Siberia, reportedly braking into three parts. The Roscosmos space agency is now busy rescheduling future launches and setting up a commission
Sunday, August 28th, 2011
A massive typhoon sliced through Philippines on Friday at speeds of 185 km/h (115 mph) and producing gusts unto 220 km/h (138 mph). The typhoon sliced through the northern part of the island on Friday and is headed to the South China Sea, off the Taiwanese coast it is expected to travel in the northwestward
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
GEM is a five-year (2008-2013), $100-million geological mapping program administered by Natural Resources Canada’s Geological Survey of Canada. The program is designed to significantly advance and modernize geological knowledge in the North to support increased exploration for new resources. Scientific information gathered through GEM also further informs decisions on land use, such as the creation
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
St. John’s Antigua- Residents are invited to join the discussions on the Antigua & Barbuda Land Use Plan during a series of public consultations to be held between August 29 and September 2, 2011.
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
A clearer picture of Antarctic ice sheets has emerged thanks in part to a Canadian satellite. Using billions of data points collected by Canada’s RADARSAT-2 satellite, as well as European and Japanese satellites, researchers at the University of California Irvine managed to map previously uncharted glaciers on the continent. “It was like a puzzle but (without knowing)
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Engineers in Slovenia have devised a system for testing the boom cranes needed for loading cargo on and off ships using Leica Geosystems total stations. A team of engineers and engineering students, led by Professor Jozef Predan from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, carried out a series of tests
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
The phytoplankton bloom pictured in this Envisat image stretches across the Barents Sea off the coast of mainland Europe’s most northern point, Cape Nordkinn. The southern area of this deep shelf sea – with an average depth of 230 m – remains mostly ice-free due to the warm North Atlantic Drift. This contributes to its high
