Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Nick Pidgeon, Professor of Environmental Psychology at Cardiff University, showed for the first time that people with a direct experience of flooding are more likely to believe in man made climate change. He said “scare” tactics, such as warning people of floods in Bangladesh or desertification in Sudan, are less likely to motivate people to take
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
A €4.4bn project to widen and improve the motorway connections between Amsterdam, Schiphol airport and Almere can start at the end of this year, transport minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen said on Monday. The project involves widening existing roads, building two tunnels and working on hundreds of bridges and viaducts, the ministry documents show. In total 63
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Farmers are being urged to become internet savvy when they make applications for farming subsidies which saw pay outs of 35.5 million euros in 2010 alone. The Cyprus Agricultural Payments Organisation (KOAP) announced last week that its newly improved internet system will make online applications to the subsidy scheme far easier and will mean farmers no
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
In a commentary article in the journal Nature Climate Change, US, Spanish and Australian researchers submit that biologists should, instead, aim to achieve a balance between understanding climate change impacts and planning for the consequences. “There is little point in focussing on fully identifying the climate impacts while losing species,” says co-author Dr Elvira Poloczanska, an environment
Monday, March 21st, 2011
As part of President Aquino’s transparency program in all transactions and programs of governance in various agencies of the government, the 1st Regional Geographic Information System Center (RGISC) is set to be launched Tuesday. The creation of RGISC is also expected to boost the full economic development in the Caraga Region, it was learned. The
Monday, March 21st, 2011
The Urban Explorer Inc.and work2future have unveiled a first-of-its-kind cloud-based geographic information tool that enables small businesses and agencies focused on planning and economic/workforce development to better understand the local economy and tap into opportunities for growth. EconoVue is the most accessible, intuitive and productive geographic information tool for dissecting the economy at the neighborhood,
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Esri’s new ArcGIS Viewer for Microsoft Silverlight can now be downloaded at no cost from the Esri Beta Community site. The viewer is a ready-to-use, configurable web mapping application built on ArcGIS API for Silverlight/WPF. Users can easily configure ArcGIS Viewer for Microsoft Silverlight without writing a single line of code or editing configuration files.
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Russian energy systems machine-building company OJSC Power Machines is to build hydroelectric power plants in Turkey with an energy-generation capacity of nearly 940 megawatts. The leading company in the power-plant industry has concluded a pre-agreement in Turkey to build four hydroelectric power plants. The company wants to build the technical infrastructure of these projects, which adds
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Bulgaria will build a super-fast railroad highway to connect the capital Sofia with the western city of Vidin and the new Danube Bridge there. The investment amount is estimated at EUR 2.7 B. The railway will be 222-km long; trains will travel with speeds up to 120 km per hour (or the trip between the
Monday, March 21st, 2011
Using the GPS data collected in two stations of the International GNSS Service (IGS), we computed the displacements of these stations due to the Earthquake. The stations are located in Mizusawa and Tsukuba at 140 km and 300 km far from the epicenter. The displacements are computed using kinematic Precise Point Positioning, with the software
