Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Russia’s legendary Mir submarines have been used to reach the ocean floor beneath the North Pole, film the Titanic in its watery grave and search for the sunken treasures of Czar Nicholas II in Siberia. Now they are exploring the gigantic underwater gulches of Lake Geneva. Read More
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
A long-delayed Russian radio telescope was successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the country’s Federal Space Agency said. The Spektr-R orbiting radio observatory was launched Monday into an elliptical orbit that varies between 621 miles and 207,000 miles above the Earth, SPACE.com reported Monday. Multiple delays in construction of the telescope, built by Lavochkin Association
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
The division of time into measurable units has been something of an obsession for mankind for at least the last 4,000 years. From the observation of shadows cast by stone stele, the movements of stars and planets and on through increasingly exotic mechanical, electrical and finally atomic regulated mechanisms, fine engineering and scientific minds have
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
The national weather forecaster, which is part of the Ministry of Defence, has also been criticised for handing out up to £1.5 million of bonuses. The Science and Technology Committee will look at how effectively the Met Office runs its public weather service remit. The forecaster is relied upon by the army, air traffic control, the BBC
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
Scientists from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) meeting in Brest from 18 to 22 July for the preparation of their fifth report, to be published in 2014. A year and a half after having been at the center of an intense smear campaign, the IPCC chairman, Indian economist Rajendra Pachauri, returns in an interview with World of the
Thursday, July 21st, 2011
According to satellite imagery data of July 18 the area of burnt-out section constituted several square kilometers. The Republican Forestry Agency reports that 15 people from forest protection service, 12 troopers, a fire extinguishing equipment and machinery were sent to stop the fire. Read More
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Conservation action involving several countries brings large scale benefits to nature and helps resolve social and political conflicts, a new IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) publication shows. The book, Crossing Borders for Nature: European examples of transboundary conservation, draws on cross-border conservation in Europe, highlighting its challenges and benefits. It was published as
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
The AGI have published Part 3 of the Metadata Guidelines for Geospatial Data Resources – Metadata Quality. Part 3 completes the series of Guidelines which have been revised to correspond to UK GEMINI v2.1, and take into account the requirements of the EU INSPIRE Directive. This part of the guidelines deals with metadata quality and covers
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
The PHOCUS payload carries 18 instruments from eight different research groups. This makes PHOCUS the most complex rocket for atmospheric research ever sent from Esrange Space Center. The test count down was performed on Wednesday morning, 6 July. Since then, a few count downs have been cancelled due to unfavourable weather conditions. Next attempt is currently scheduled for
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Oceans cover much of our planet and they are difficult to keep under surveillance, with the trafficking of people, unlicensed fishing and piracy adding to the problem. Satellites, however, can help keep the seas safe. Satellites monitor the entire planet and are an obvious component of an improved surveillance system. Satellite imagery can be used to
