Friday, March 9th, 2012
A proposal is gaining steam to designate 330,000 acres of federal land in Napa and five adjacent counties as a national conservation area, with the goal of improving public management and public access. The Berryessa Snow Mountain proposal would be a patchwork of federal lands stretching from Snow Mountain in the Mendocino National Forest to Cold
Friday, March 9th, 2012
Federal land managers want to know how Colorado residents feel about a revised plan for oil shale and tar sands development that would cut acreage for leases by 75 percent compared to a plan approved in 2008. To gather public comments, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will host an open house Monday evening in Silt
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
By tracking the dynamics of the dominant antigenic clusters, we not only find that dominant antigenic clusters change more frequently in China than in the United States/Europe, but also characterize the antigenic patterns of seasonal H3N2 viruses within China. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the coupling of large-scale HA sequencing with PREDAC can significantly improve vaccine
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
The first emergency rescue center on Russia’s Arctic coast will open in August, the head of the Russian emergencies ministry’s firefighting and rescue department said. “The first center will open this year in August in the city of Dudinka in northern Krasnoyarsk Territory,” Maxim Vladimirov said. Read More
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
An enormous solar flare is heading toward Earth and could disrupt power grids, satellite navigating systems and aeroplane flights. Forecasters at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Space Weather Prediction Centre said the sun erupted yesterday evening and the effects should start smacking Earth today. They say it is the biggest in five years and
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
The City of Helsinki is experimenting for the first time with a new way of visualising what the planned 33-storey tower hotel in the Jätkäsaari former docklands neighbourhood would look like from various directions. Before their Tuesday meeting, the members of the City Planning Board will pay a visit to the area. They will tour on a bus
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Real freedom of information is about “the money that goes in, the results that come out”, as opposed to “FOI requests that are all about processes”. That’s the view of David Cameron, which he expressed yesterday at the end of his evidence session in front of a House of Commons committee. He distinguished between the increased transparency that derives
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
Since 1998, the World Resources Institute (WRI) has been using GIS (Geographic Information System) models to develop map-based assessments of threats to the world’s coral reefs. Reefs at Risk Revisited, released in February 2011, is the latest assessment in the series and is based on a nearly three-year study that produced the most highly-detailed global
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
By all accounts the late Francis Alexander Garraway was a man well ahead of his time. The consummate professional land surveyor, Garraway’s resourcefulness, creativity and insatiable desire for knowledge will be memorialized through a special endowment established in his name at The College of The Bahamas.
Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
EU foreign Policy Chief Catherine Ashton travels the Barents Region this week to discuss EU’s application for permanent observer status in the Arctic Council. Catherine Ashton first travels to Rovaniemi, then Kiruna and finally Svalbard. Read More
