Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Russia will test a next-generation spacecraft, build a new cosmodrome and even consider a manned mission to Mars after 2035, the nation’s space chief said Wednesday. But Anatoly Perminov conceded that Russian spacecraft depend on imported electronics, speaking to lawmakers a day after the nation celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight by Yuri
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
Envisat captures dust and sand from the Algerian Sahara Desert, located in northern Africa, blowing west across the Atlantic Ocean last week. Stretching across the eastern Atlantic, strong winds carry the plume over the northwestern tip of the Iberian Peninsula (bottom), the western tip of France, the southwestern tip of England (top right) and the southwestern
Saturday, April 16th, 2011
The German cabinet has agreed on a bill that calls for capturing carbon dioxide and storing it underground. However, Germany’s states aren’t eager to implement the plan – and have a backdoor to get out of it. Months of discussions have come to an end with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government reaching an agreement on Wednesday
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Kazakhstan has benefited from the global nuclear renaissance in recent years. High oil prices and fears about the future availability of fossil fuels have encouraged a growing number of countries to turn back to nuclear energy. Kazakhstan shot ahead of both Australia and Canada to become the world’s largest producer of uranium in 2009 –
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Tens of thousands of residents of Magomeni and Mburahati in Dar es Salaam can now afford to smile again after braving for three months without reliable water supply, after pipes were disconnected at the area to pave the way for construction of a new bridge. Over 100,000 residents at Mburahati First Inn area were forced to
Friday, April 15th, 2011
Abant Natural Park in northwestern Turkey will only be opened to pedestrians following the decision of the Sakarya Regional Administrative Court to hand over the management of the Abant Natural Park to the Ministry of Environment and Forestry. The park had formerly been under the management of the Bolu provincial administration whom critics accused of mishandling
Friday, April 15th, 2011
A majority of MPs want transport minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen to put passengers first by not cutting railway investment and leaving reduction cards as they are, reports the Volkskrant. Their demand follows an interview with the new boss of infrastructure company ProRail in the NRC in which she refused to make promises on an improvement
Friday, April 15th, 2011
The 745-mile (1,200km) route follows the watershed, the line dividing river systems that flow west to the Atlantic from those that end up in the North Sea. “Imagine you are a raindrop”, Peter Wright, the new route’s author, told me. Frankly, that wasn’t difficult. On the day I met him in the Campsie Fells the cloud was low.
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Malaysia has adopted a new GIS crime mapping system called “Safe City Monitoring System” as part of the country’s on-going efforts to ensure that crime prevention initiatives under the Government Transformation Program’s National Key Results Area are on track and sustainable. “This clearly shows that we are very serious about ensuring that our cities are safe and free from
Thursday, April 14th, 2011
Since its inception Map Middle East has provided an international platform for building networks to enable g-lateral ties in the Middle East region for geo-spatial community. It aims to look into many aspects of geo-spatial technologies by bringing in field experts from across the length and breadth of the region. In the past Map Middle East
