Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Kansas City voters could be headed to the polls for a ninth time to decide on light rail. Rail advocate Clay Chastain turned in enough signatures to get a $2.5 billion light-rail plan on the ballot this fall, the city clerk said. Chastain, who lives in Virginia, wants voters to approve a three-eighth-cent sales tax increase to
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
The data collected by Terra Satellite of NASA from 2000 to 2011 shows that the earth’s atmosphere releases more heat into space than predicted by the computers that are programmed for the purpose, reports a new research recorded in Remote Sensing, a science journal. Read More
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
The United Nations Economic and Social Council has voted to establish a committee of experts on global geospatial information management to better coordinate international dialogues on spatial data infrastructures and enhance international cooperation on the said matter between member states. According to the latest report from the office of the Secretary-General, at present, there is an absence of a
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
There was a time when geography was memorizing chief crops, major bodies of water and picking out countries on a map. Knowing that cloves came from places like Zanzibar and Madagascar or locating the Caspian Sea seemed all there was to this study. Not today. Anne Knowles, a geography professor atMiddlebury College, is using geographic information systems (GIS)
Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
Germany has taken some fundamental energy decisions in recent months, ones that are interesting for other countries to study and learn from. The most “famous” decision recently has been to phase out nuclear power in the next ten years. This move builds on years of debate and a societal decision after Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
Monday, August 1st, 2011
As you watch the Colorado River blasting through Glenwood Canyon, just east of Glenwood Springs, 150 miles west of Denver, it’s hard to imagine water-shortage problems downstream. For about a half mile, the river churns violently over boulders and downed tree branches. It’s a whitewater enthusiast’s dream—or nightmare. The violence of the flow makes it
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Construction is causing more and more subway delays and diversions on weekends, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority does a mediocre job of informing riders of changes, said an audit released Sunday. The agency also sometimes doesn’t do work for the whole time trains are diverted, according to the joint audit by the state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli
Monday, August 1st, 2011
It’s such a fortunate thing that nobody was hurt in Sunday’s frightening collapse of a concrete ceiling grid at the eastern end of the Ville Marie Tunnel, a part of the tunnel which is only partially covered, and where the sunken roadway is exposed to perforated daylight. But that’s a small consolation in the larger context
Monday, August 1st, 2011
The Earth Observation and Satellite Applications Research and Training Centre (EOSA-RTC), was launched this month (6 July) in collaboration with the African Monitoring of the Environment for Sustainable Development programme (AMESD). It is located at the Polytechnic of Namibia and comprises a satellite data receiving station and data centre, which will provide data useful for agriculture. The data,
Monday, August 1st, 2011
The B.C. Interior sure has changed since cartographer David Thompson mapped out most of the area during the fur trading days. For one thing, outposts have grown into towns and cities, rivers now run alongside roads, and once barren land has transformed into ranches, orchards and subdivisions. Read More
