Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
The world’s big cities are already bursting at the seams but are set to grow even larger, with experts predicting that about 70% of the world’s population will be urban by 2050. This will put great strains on infrastructure and the environment, and presents a major challenge to city planners, developers and mayors who gathered
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011
Qantas Airways Ltd. added Hong Kong stopovers to six flights serving Tokyo’s Narita Airport after an earthquake and nuclear-power plant emergency disrupted transport links in Japan. Tokyo flights linking Sydney and Perth will stop in Hong Kong through March 19, according to a statement on the airline’s website. There are no plans to cancel any
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
President Lee Myung-bak’s achievement in enshrining sustainable development in a legal framework was recognised with the $500,000 Zayed Prize for Global Leadership in Environment. “Climate change is undoubtedly the challenge of our times,” Mr Lee said. “We believe protecting the environment and attaining sustainable growth can go together and we believe it must.” Read More
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Tsunamis on the scale that hit north-east Japan last week may strike the region about once every 1,000 years, a leading seismologist has said. Dr Roger Musson said there were similarities between the last week’s event and another giant wave that hit the Sendai coast in 869AD. It is not unusual for undersea earthquakes to generate tsunamis
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
The Russian-English Agricultural Atlas is the world’s most comprehensive source of information on the geographic distribution of plant-based agriculture in Russia and neighboring countries. The Atlas contains 1500 maps that illustrate the distribution of 100 crops, 560 wild crop relatives, 640 diseases, pests and weeds, and 200 environmental parameters. Additionally, the Atlas provides detailed biological
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Japanese corporation Toshiba has declared interest in building two new thermal power facilities in Bulgaria’s Maritsa East TPP complex, Economy Minister Traicho Traikov has announced. Traikov was in the state-owned Maritsa East 2 plant on Monday with Japanese Ambassador to Bulgaria Makoto Ito where the two of them opened the rehabilitated unit 8 of the TPP, whose repairs were completed by Toshiba 32
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Six URISA’s GISCorps volunteers were recruited to assist in mining various datasets in earthquake stricken areas of Japan. This mission is in collaboration with Crisis Commons http://crisiscommons.org. The mined and organized datasets will become available to the humanitarian relief community. For specific details about this project, click here.
Monday, March 14th, 2011
Britain’s fledgling solar power industry is gearing up for a fight over the Government’s review of the solar subsidies scheme. The consultation setting out how the Government proposes to change the “feed-in tariff” (FIT) system for solar arrays producing 50 kilowatts (kW) or more of power could be published as early as this week. And green
Monday, March 14th, 2011
Experts met at the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Interference, Detection and Monitoring Conference 2011 in London to discuss this issue, following a report from the Royal Academy of Engineering which laid out the risks of GPS disruption. eLORAN (Enhanced Long Range Navigation) was among the most actively discussed solutions to GPS jamming.
Monday, March 14th, 2011
The GOES-11 satellite captured a stunning image of the Pacific Ocean as tsunami-generated waves move through the ocean basin. The waves were generated from this morning’s earthquake near Japan. At 0546 UTC on March 11 (12:46 a.m. EST/2:46 p.m. local time/Japan) an earthquake with the preliminary magnitude 8.9 occurred near the east coast of Honshu, Japan.
