Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Hydro bills should be simpler to understand, says Ontario energy minister Chris Bentley. But at the same time he wants to give ratepayers access to more of the information that their smart meters are collecting, so they can manage their energy use more wisely. Speaking to reporters after a speech to the Toronto Board of Trade, Bentley
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
From one of the earliest depictions of the continent – to the colonial scramble for land – the maps of Africa reveal a great deal about the people who have lived there through the centuries. To try to shed new light on the African archives held by the Royal Geographical Society, London-based African community groups were
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Werner Frohwitter drives his white Prius into Feldheim, parking halfway down the village’s one street in front of what looks like a shipping container. Behind the street is a field where 43 giant wind turbines loom over the village’s 37 houses. Frohwitter works for Energiequelle Gmbh, which owns the wind park. He greets a Russian
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
The need for reliable geophysical data cannot be overemphasized in any economy, especially in economies blessed with natural resources as Nigeria. Ruth Tene looks at the available bankable data and the potentials for the mining sector. For many years the absence of reliable geophysical data has been seen as one of the many challenges hindering the
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Residents in the districts of Huye and Nyanza say that the land consolidation policy has contributed greatly to improving their social wellbeing. The land consolidation programme seeks to bring together fragmented plots of land and encourage the cultivation of particular crops on the consolidated land in the spirit of maintaining food security. Read More
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Authorities will seek the help of Indian surveyors to demarcate 100,000 blocks of Mahaweli land which is to be distributed among the public. Irrigation and Water Management Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said as his ministry is unable to find adequate surveyors locally from state and private sectors, the ministry had sought the services of
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
Not far from the Malomozhaiskoye village (Kaliningrad Region) the Baltic nuclear power plant is being constructed. The first power unit is to be put into operation in late 2017. REGNUM information agency reports that stress tests of all designed and erected by “Rosatom” power units have been performed and of all them were successful. Also, after
Monday, March 12th, 2012
CryoLand is aimed at developing, implementing and validating a standardized and sustainable service on snow and land ice monitoring as a Downstream Service within GMES in a value added chain with the Land Monitoring Core Services. The service will provide geospatial products on the seasonal snow cover, glaciers, and lake / river ice derived from Earth
Monday, March 12th, 2012
A dual-use technology is one that has both civilian and military applications. Enriching uranium is a good example. A country may legitimately do so to fuel power stations. Or it may do so illegitimately to arm undeclared nuclear weapons. Few, however, would think of concrete as a dual-use technology. But it can be. And one
Monday, March 12th, 2012
The first involves the orbit of “sentinel satellites” in 2012-2015. It aims to acquire an ability to perform fast mapping disaster (earthquake, flooding, oil spills …) to facilitate the organization of relief by providing a view of the situation on the ground within hours. It is a goal ” extremely ambitious at this stage given the current shortfall
