Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Africa is being given a unique opportunity to conserve its tremendous diversity of freshwater species – a critical resource for many of Africa’s poorest people. African countries can now decide to use their water resources sustainably, and avoid paying millions of dollars, as is the case in Europe, to rectify poorly planned wetland development.
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
Intergraph CADWorx Plant Design Suite 2012, the newest version of Intergraph’s design solution for mid-market and AutoCAD-based projects and workgroups, is now compatible with AutoCAD 2012, the latest AutoCAD release from Autodesk (Nasdaq GS:ADSK), offering users improved capabilities.
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
After successfully going live with the Information Gateway in September 2010, CEH have now launched phase 2, adding support for GEMINI2. Using sdi.suite as a core, the CEH Information Gateway provides a web portal that enables users to discover and bind to spatial data resources within CEH and throughout the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
Over 150 “hot spots” – probable fire blazes – were detected on June 7 in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District according to the data of fire situation satellite-based monitoring. The majority of thermal anomalies within the past few days were detected by satellites in Khanty-Mansi District (167 “hot spots” on June 7, 75 – on June 5),
Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
For over a year now, cafes and other small businesses in the US have increasingly been using a new mobile payment system called Square. It’s a little cube, about the size of a sugar cube, that plugs into a smartphone audio jack. Just open up the application on the phone, and boom – the barista
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
The Green Mining programme is expected to speed up the growth of mineral industry turnover. There is clear potential for creating new technology and service companies in this field, as well as for growth of existing businesses in Finland. ”We will strive to increase the number of SMEs with high-tech skills operating in the minerals
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
The UK has lost about two thirds of its cuckoos in the last 25 years. Dr Chris Hewson, the scientist leading the project, says that tracking the birds will reveal more about the habitat they rely on. The team will tag five male birds with trackers like tiny backpacks that weigh just five grams. The tags have soft
Tuesday, June 7th, 2011
The E. coli epidemic continues to ravage Germany, with every attempt to pinpoint its origin ending in failure so far. Experts say that for a developed country, Germany was ill-prepared to handle such an outbreak and that officials wasted valuable time. Read More
Monday, June 6th, 2011
Well, I think, the game changer as far as forests are concerned is the fact that Forest Rights Act is now an integral part of the Forest Conservation Act process. I mean that something that was inevitable and had to happen but that the environment and forests ministry is talking about it and not being
Monday, June 6th, 2011
A Scoreboard has been published by the European Commission showing the performance of the EU and Member States in delivering on the agreed targets of the Digital Agenda for Europe after the first year of its existence (see IP/10/581, MEMO/10/199 and MEMO/10/200). In line with its commitment to an open data strategy the European Commission
