Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
As of June 20 over 50 fires were registered in Irkutsk Region within the area of about 700 hectares. On June 21 there were registered 62 fires to the total area of 1,771 thousand hectares in the region with no threat to residential districts, – reports RIA-Novosti.IT was also reported that fires in Chunsky District
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
The Climate Challenge Fund is the Scottish Government’s major communities and climate change programme. This review investigated the impacts and success factors of 21 projects. Largely, the review found that projects were making a difference locally – delivering food growing spaces, providing home insulation, encouraging changes in energy behaviours. Summary of the Review is available and Report
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Some GPS-related news. The Japanese government – with the the assistance of private firms – is ramping up research on a Japanese version of the Global Positioning System in a bid to turn satellite-based technologies into a key export, the Nikkeireports. Plans are afoot to conduct joint reserach and development on this – nine firms and two
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
A sea of wildfires are burning in eastern Russia. This Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image shows the scattered wildfires. While numerous of individual fires left of Lake Baikal are producing the smoke, a fire at the top left of this image appears to be producing a majority of it. The MODIS instrument that flies aboard
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
“Sweden wants to highlight the strong impact that black carbon, ozone and methane have on the environment alongside long-lived greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. A reduction could produce the necessary rapid effects required to assist the climate,” says Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren. SLCFs only exist for a short time in the atmosphere, but
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
After reconstructing sea level patterns over the last 2,000 years for the first time ever, researchers have found that the dawn of the industrial age initiated an unprecedented rise in waters. But critics complain the study is too narrow. Read More
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Blom are pleased to announce the completion of the Data Integration Framework Agreement with Ordnance Survey in the UK. This agreement has been in operation since 2002 and provided Ordnance Survey with aerial imagery and mapping services. These services were used to maintain the currency, accuracy and information content of Ordnance Survey’s core databases.
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Environmental data reported by countries, such as air emissions, air quality, water quality and protected areas data, is essential for understanding, and responding to, environmental change. Since 2000, European countries have significantly improved their delivery of priority environmental data to the European Environment Agency (EEA). Country scoring corresponds to the quality of the data made available
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
ICANN, the organization that governs Internet domain names, has agreed to open the possibility of registering top-level domains, like the present. Com or. Edu, names integers.This will allow a company or a city to register their name as a domain of the Web. Read More
Tuesday, June 21st, 2011
Satellite navigation system maker TomTom announced on Monday a new free application for iPhone and Android telephones. The app, TomTom Places, allows users to park their car and navigate to their final destination on foot. The app couples the location of a company to that of a user and allows the user to search for a
