Monday, March 14th, 2011
It’s considered an achievement to host the Olympics for your country, but often the host city is the least excited about the whole undertaking. The Floating Olympic Complex proposed for the Rio de Janeiro games in Brazil aims to solve the problem of later unused buildings in these incredible inverted structures. Pouring enormous amounts of money
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
Model runs from the Center for Tsunami Research at the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory show the expected wave heights of the tsunami as it travels across the Pacific basin. The largest wave heights are expected near the earthquake epicenter, off Japan. The wave will decrease in height as it travels across the deep Pacific
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
Britain risks losing hundreds of billions of pounds needed to build wind farms and other renewable energy resources if the Government fails to set up a Green Investment Bank, MPs have warned. The Coalition Agreement promised to put aside at least £1 billion to raise money from the private sector for building new green power sources
Sunday, March 13th, 2011
RapidEye has acquired two scenes over the West Coast of Honshu Island on Marth 12th. The satellites are already tasked again to image on Sunday, March 13th. The Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI) which is part of the German Aerospace Agency (DLR) contacted RapidEye shortly following the breaking news of the earthquake and resulting
Saturday, March 12th, 2011
The maps, which are downloadable, allow layering of data — so scientists can overlay, say, major wheat production centers with concentrations of Russian wheat aphids, a crop pest. The idea behind the Internet-based, bilingual maps, collectively called AgroAtlas, is to promote world food security — with specific attention to nations who were a part of the former
Friday, March 11th, 2011
Australia’s coastal zone includes major cities and supports major industries such as agriculture, fisheries, and tourism. The zone also includes coastal wetlands and estuaries, mangroves and other coastal vegetation, coral reefs, heritage areas and threatened species or habitats. Read More
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Analytics has identified that not all Canadian neighbourhoods are equal in terms of numerical literacy using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) analysis of Statistics Canada Census data and literacy survey research.
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Two of the world’s leading science agencies, CSIRO and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), are joining forces to tackle one of the world’s biggest problems – how to feed a global population that is growing by 75 million people per year. Scientists from CSIRO and CAS will meet in Australia next week to discuss
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
To ensure that a continuous flow of accurate and timely satellite data is available to forecast the weather and study climate change in the coming decades, ESA is looking to the future by preparing the next generation of MetOp satellites. The current MetOp series has three identical satellites. Launched in 2006, MetOp-A is Europe’s first polar-orbiting
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
The report, “Infrastructure and Growth in Zimbabwe: An Action Plan for Strengthened Recovery,” was released today, 7 March 2011, at an international investors’ conference in Harare. It is part of the analytical work aimed at helping to strengthen the AfDB’s leadership in Zimbabwe’s infrastructure sector.
