Monday, June 27th, 2011
Public interest in climate issues has dropped to its lowest point in five years, according to the upcoming annual SOM report from the University of Gothenburg. Only 14 percent of Swedes currently consider the environment to be among our most important problems, reports daily newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. This is the lowest figure since 2006, and
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Poland opposes European Commission plans to cut CO2 emissions as such proposals are likely to drive up energy prices, EU Affairs Minister Mikolaj Dowgielewicz told Polish news agency PAP.Polish Economy Minister Waldemar Pawlak told a press conference that the plans posed a danger to the EU economy as a whole, including the heavily coal-dependent Polish
Monday, June 27th, 2011
The company, called Pythagoras Solar, is one of five firms to win an Innovation Award from the program’s “Powering Your Home” challenge, in which GE invested $63 million this round and also provided sizeable awards to 10 commercial partners in addition to the smaller firms. Currently in its second year, the challenge has now provided
Monday, June 27th, 2011
Britain's biggest array of solar panels has begun generating in Oxfordshire. The first large ground system to feed into the national grid will benefit from the tariff scheme paying a premium for supplying clean electricity. Howbery business park's companies specialise in engineering, environmental and water research and development and its 3,000-panel array generates up to
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Evgeny Kaspersky is one of Russia’s top Internet virus hunters and IT entrepreneurs. In a SPIEGEL interview, he discusses a raft of recent hacker attacks on multinationals, the “total professionals” behind the Stuxnet virus and his fear of both personal and widespread cyber violence. Read More
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Google and the various websites it owns were used by more than a billion people for the first time in May. The landmark figure, revealed in new data from ComScore, shows an 8.4pc rise year on year. Microsoft remained the second most popular destination with 905 million unique visitors in May. This was up approximately
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
A team of young people from Belfast were awarded second place at a global UN environmental initiative which rewards local, sustainable projects which tackle issues within local communities. The Volvo Adventure competition, which is held in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), took place in Sweden over four days, bringing together students from as
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Norway and Russia have agreed that issue of licenses for shelf developments in the recently delineated area in the Barents Sea can begin in 2013-2014. Norway’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy Ola Borten Moe and Russia’s Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Yury Trutnev met in Moscow to discuss how the delineation agreement of September
Sunday, June 26th, 2011
Farmers seem to be suffering from a case of information overload, when it comes to climate change. The director of the National Institute for Rural and Regional Australia at the Australian National University in Canberra, Dr Anthony Horgan, says farmers are confused about how to manage changes in the climate because of conflicting information. Read More
Saturday, June 25th, 2011
Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are looking into an opportunity to develop and mutually use a virtual remote sensing satellite constellation, Chairman of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NASB) Anatoly Rusetsky told media on 23 June.In his words, the use of a virtual remote sensing satellite constellation involves the use of
