Friday, July 15th, 2011
A day after it was the centre of a terrorist attack that left 17 people dead in three near-simultaneous bomb blasts, Mumbai’s famous Opera House has been brought to life in a 3D Google Earth model. The model will soon be available to Google Earth users, but you can have a sneak preview here. Google also
Friday, July 15th, 2011
The Norwegian Mail Service (Posten) will from today, Tuesday, offer customers digital storage of documents, Digipost, but the data industry is sceptical to the new service, NRK reports. Digipost offers customers a three-year free mail service and storage of important documents, but it is unclear what happens after this period, according to NRK. Read More
Friday, July 15th, 2011
Turkey will construct an airport on an artificial island in the Black Sea, near the cities of Ordu and Giresun, the country’s Transport Minister Binali Yildirim has announced. A total of 20 million tons of soil and 9 million tons of rock will be poured into the sea to facilitate the creation of the artificial island. The future airport will have a 3 km-long runway
Friday, July 15th, 2011
The UK is coping now, but it is near its limits in some key sectors and could be pushed over the edge by climate change. But by preparing now, the UK can reduce the adverse effects of climate change and take advantage of opportunities, according to a new report published today by the Adaptation Sub-Committee
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Swiss Environment Minister Doris Leuthard, on a three-day visit to the United States, has said egoism must be put aside in the fight against climate change. In a speech at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), near Boston, the minister also proposed abandoning the principle that climate change accords should be secured by unanimity
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has been unable to identify the full financial benefits of its £39.3m investment in a geographic information strategy, according to a new National Audit Office report. It says the department has been able to estimate savings of £9.1m, and that while this is likely to be an
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
The decision to roll up DSBFirst’s Swedish operations in an orderly fashion, according to DSB managing director Klaus Pedersen, staves offs the company’s bankruptcy and ensures that service for the 200,000 daily passengers on its routes in Sweden and Denmark will continue. Read More
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Ireland’s State research ship, Celtic explorer, has embarked on an expedition to map a new underwater eco-system on the floor of the Atlantic sea. The joint British and Irish mission is led by Dr Andy Wheeler from University College Cork. It includes over 30 crew members and a National Geographic televison crew. Read More
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Germany’s energy agency is warning that one of the German reactors mothballed in the wake of Fukushima may have to be restarted to make up for possible power shortages this winter and next. Berlin is also using money earmarked for energy efficiency to subsidize coal-fired power plants. Read More
Wednesday, July 13th, 2011
Stock markets, war, your trip to the country: we rely on the Global Positioning System for an awful lot these days. Yet the entire network is controlled by eight men and women who − in every sense − carry the world on their shoulders. At 23 years old, Joshua Williams seems a little young to be
