Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
The number of individual cases of critical air pollution in Russia increased by around 35% in 2010 year-on-year, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said on Friday. The main cause of the increase was the forest fires that swept the country for two months during a heat wave last summer, the ministry said. Industrial emissions and
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Sustainability has been at the centre of the work of Foster + Partners for over four decades from Willis Faber and Dumas and the Sainsbury Centre in the 1970’s to our Abu Dhabi eco-city, Masdar most recently. Creating a sustainable built environment is crucial if we are to work towards ‘one planet living’. To achieve
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Environment Secretary Caroline Spelman today announced plans to embed sustainable development at the heart of Government. The Mainstreaming Sustainable Development package sets out the Government’s vision and measures to deliver it. Nick Clegg described the ambition to “take our place among the greenest governments in the world”. Caroline Spelman explained that it’s time to
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
Demand for water in agriculture and energy production could spike in the coming decades while catastrophic floods and droughts strike more often, a water conference in Canada is to hear this week. “At unpredictable times, too much water will arrive in some places and too little in others,” said Zafar Adeel, chair of UN Water which
Monday, February 28th, 2011
The GLONASS satellite communications system on Monday started operation on Vladivostok’s municipal transport. The satellite equipment is installed in all 78 Vladivostok municipal buses, trolleybuses and trams, as well as in dozens of buses of commercial carriers. At the next stage passenger boats, ferries and more than two hundred commercial buses will also be equipped
Monday, February 28th, 2011
According to a report in Al-Madinah newspaper recently, they said nearly 70 percent of buildings situated in districts with the presence of groundwater are on the verge of collapse. The warning came at a time when a number of building owners urged the authorities to take urgent measures to protect their residential buildings from the
Monday, February 28th, 2011
Dublin is the European City of Science next year and will host the biennial EuroScience Open Forum (Esof 2012) from July 12th to 15th. The event is expected to bring together more than 5,000 scientists, business leaders, government officials, policy- makers and international scientific media representatives to discuss the best of European science. It will
Monday, February 28th, 2011
The all clear has been given for Europe to press ahead with the 3.4bn-euro (£2.9bn) project to build a next-generation weather satellite system. Eumetsat, the international agency charged with looking after Europe’s Meteosats, said on Friday that all participating nations had now agreed to the programme and its financing. The new system should bring a step change
Monday, February 28th, 2011
The European Commission has today adopted rules to harmonise information between all the actors involved in creating the Single European Sky (SES). Member States decided to put an end to the fragmentation of Europe’s air space by creating between themselves nine common geographical air spaces by December 2012: the Functional Airspace Blocks (FABs). The Regulation
Sunday, February 27th, 2011
Net cash flow to the government from the State’s Direct Financial Interest (SDFI) on the Norwegian continental shelf in 2010 was NOK 104 billion, up almost NOK 7 billion from the year before, Petoro reports. Read More
