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
Monday, August 1st, 2011
In recent years, nuclear energy was still touted as a necessary bridging technology towards a renewable period. After the disaster in Fukushima, the federal government is now planning the nuclear phase-out within the next 11 years. New coal-and gas-fired power plants should instead be provided at the transition to a largely renewable power supply. Particularly, since the construction
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Incomplete and inaccurate geospatial information can lead to delays in enforcing laws, subsequently triggering conflicts, a lawmaker says. “We have laws that require government regulations on geospatial mapping,” Daryatmo Mardiyanto from the House of Representatives’ Commission VII said Thursday in Bandung at a seminar and workshop on revitalizing geospatial information management at the Bandung Institute of
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Microsoft is partnering with Dell to build a green data centre that will power Bing Maps‘ suite of geospatial imaging applications. The centre is located on the grounds of a Microsoft facility in Boulder, Colorado. Dell claims that the new data centre is highly efficient in energy consumption, thanks to a cooling system that uses
Monday, August 1st, 2011
Applying Geographic Information Systems, known as GIS – as well as software previously used to examine human illness – University of Florida scientists have been able to find locations where clusters of diseased coral exist. In the last 30 years, more than 90 percent of the reef-building coral responsible for maintaining major marine habitats and providing
