Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Two organisations from the property sector have today called on the Government to honour its commitments on energy efficiency ratings, as MPs prepare to debate the Energy Bill in the House of Commons. Senior industry figures have sent an open letter to the Prime Minister and other senior ministers, calling for the Energy Bill to
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
That was the attitude of Natural Resources Canada when they barred an internationally-known Canadian researcher from speaking about his work on the breaking of a prehistoric ice-dam 130 centuries ago until vetted “media lines” could be approved by the minister’s office. Journalists in Canada facing deadlines had to interview British scientists lauding Scott Dallimore’s groundbreaking study
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
The council’s member states also signed a legally binding treaty to cooperate in search and rescue efforts in the event of a disaster in the Arctic. The treaty calls for council members to demonstrate and live up to their capacity to cooperate in search and rescue efforts after a plane crash, an oil spill, a ship
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
On the island of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago, at 1000 kilometers from the North Pole, a safe home to more than 600,000 samples of seeds and seed. Ultimately, 4.5 million samples will be stored. Read More
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
Ahead of his inauguration for a second term in office, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, (SAN), has pressed forward to continue work on the state’s light rail programme as he undertakes a pre-shipment inspection of the trains in Canada to be used by Ekorail, the operators of the programme. The 27 kilometre light metro rail
Sunday, May 15th, 2011
The third session of the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction ended on Friday with a call for coordinating efforts to make communities more resilient in the face of disasters. “Participants at the third Global Platform have recognized the urgency we face and realized clearly that the world needs to act quickly and in concrete ways
Saturday, May 14th, 2011
Fewer Swedish farmers share the country’s arable land. The number of companies in agriculture has declined by 26 per cent since 1990, while the average arable land area has increased from 29 hectares to 37 hectares. Nine per cent of the farms use almost half of all arable land. More than one in four farmers
Saturday, May 14th, 2011
Uwazi at Twaweza organization has launched a budget visualization dashboard, a system through which Tanzania budget information would be easily accessible to Tanzanian communities. The move comes at a time when information on money spent by the government is not easily accessible in the country, even when citizens are curious to know how their government
Saturday, May 14th, 2011
A marine atlas has been created to highlight Shetland’s potential as a source of wave and tidal power. The atlas is based on a major study aimed at promoting the islands as an ideal location for the development of marine renewable energy. It features resource maps allowing would-be developers to identify the best sites for generating electricity.
Saturday, May 14th, 2011
Swedish energy giant Vattenfall says by 2020 it can build coal plants which bury liquefied CO2 emissions below ground, but finding reservoirs and skirting public defiance are still the main obstacles in Germany. In the eastern part of Germany’s Brandenburg state, citizens have taken to hanging signs reading “We’re no guinea pigs” on their garden fences.
