Friday, May 6th, 2011
Weather impact on the flow of traffic and safety is high. Sudden and damaging weather events such as storms and floods may be generated in the worst case of paralysis of the transport system and cause serious economic and human consequences. Climate change means that extreme weather events is expected to become more common in the future
Friday, May 6th, 2011
The Regional Forestry Office organized by Cologne Sauerland State Office of NRW Forest and wood a forest of action on the “forest Borders” on the occasion of the International Year of Forests. The action is a joint initiative of the Forestry Commission and various partner organizations, who are about to take care of people with health
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Sir William (Bill) Callaghan has been appointed Chair of the Marine Management Organisation (MMO), the body responsible for managing England’s marine resources, by Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman. Sir Bill will chair the Board, which oversees the strategic direction of the MMO, from 1 May 2011 for three years. He will be paid £110,000 a year pro
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Departure of director from National Institute of Food and Agriculture casts uncertainty over future of flagship funding programme. A nascent revolution in US agricultural science lost its leader last week. Roger Beachy, director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) in Washington DC, resigned his post, effective on 20 May, saying that he wants to
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Residents can expect regular electricity cuts starting this month as officials work to switch the capital to a more efficient power system. All of the power substations on Abu Dhabi island will be converted to an automatic system that will allow the Abu Dhabi Distribution Company (ADDC) to repair problems remotely. These updates to the system
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Wayne Gardner-Young hopes to build the attraction, along with a hotel, cafes and restaurants, to sit alongside a five-star touring caravan site with a spa, plus a variety of holiday apartments and lodges. The entrepreneur, whose interests range from Azure, formerly Victoria’s Nightclub, Glasgow, to the £23m transformation of a West Lothian wasteland into an adventure
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
One of the northernmost oil-drillings ever in the Arctic started this week, 250 kilometers of the coast of Finnmark. The only oil-company based in the Barents Region is partner. Optimism is again characterizing the petroleum industry drilling the northern areas after Norwegian oil major Statoil last month announced a large-scale oil discovery at the Skrugard field in the
Thursday, May 5th, 2011
Which do you value: production or consumption? The preference has long defined economic questions ranging from tax policies to development. Now it matters in national carbon accounting too. If you look at production, you count the carbon that comes from a territory’s smokestacks, exhaust pipes and forest fires. With consumption you tot up the carbon
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
Having established the largest non-industrial catalysis research and development effort in the U.S., a group of scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is making changes to better focus on key scientific problems that they believe will help the nation secure a strong, clean energy future. This renewed focus will be aimed
Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
A proposed 300-megawatts offshore wind power project that would be located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of North Carolina received an initial blessing from state regulators to move forward yesterday. The North Carolina Utilities Commission’s approval of the Desert Wind Energy Project, which plans to install an estimated 150 wind turbines in the Atlantic Ocean, will allow the project to begin the likely arduous
