Tuesday, January 11th, 2011
Learning from the chaos caused by snow on the roads and trains in early December. That was the purpose of the roundtable, Monday, January 10, Department of Ecology. Read More
Monday, January 10th, 2011
The Finnish city of Turku and Tallinn in Estonia – European Capitals of Culture for 2011 – have decided to cooperate to draw wider attention to the poor state of the Baltic Sea. Turku and Tallinn share approximately ten mutual projects to showcase their geographical proximity as well as cultural and ethnic affinity. According to
Monday, January 10th, 2011
The telephone line connecting a residence to a local exchange (called “central office” in America) consists of a pair of plastic-coated copper wires that are twisted together along their length. The idea of the twisted-pair was invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1881 to cancel out any electromagnetic interference and crosstalk between adjacent lines. Read
Monday, January 10th, 2011
People act differently when they are being watched. It’s a fact that authoritarian regimes have long exploited to suppress dissent. But watchfulness can also work to the good and perhaps even stop atrocities. That’s the premise behind the Satellite Sentinel Project, a collaboration between Google, the United Nations Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT), the Harvard Humanitarian
Monday, January 10th, 2011
The water level in the Maas river in Limburg province will remain high or week but no major floods are expected, the local waterboard said on Sunday. ‘The peak in Roermond went by without problems and we expect the river to be at its highest in Venlo on Monday evening,’ the spokesman told the Volkskrant. Read
Monday, January 10th, 2011
As per report of sources, a group of 54 students has been working on the project ‘SRMSAT’ since 2008 to develop a nano-satellite. The report further added that the weight of satellite was only 10 Kg and it was being develop to monitor greenhouse gases. Reportedly, the estimated cost of project is 1 crore. The satellite
Monday, January 10th, 2011
SCOTSMAN – The appointment of a minister is required to ensure government decisions are environmentally sustainable and to hold departments to account when they fail to meet green targets. A committee of MPs said green issues had not been fully embedded into government because of a lack of political will, and called for a minister for sustainable
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
The availability of labour to help make construction opportunities in Canada’s north a reality is as crucial as government investment there, says a Conference Board of Canada report. “All in all, the funding initiatives for the territories, should they all go forward, will have a considerable temporary impact on the size and strength of the
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
Japanese Mitsubishi Corp and Nippon Oil have received rights for 290,000 tones of CO2 emission from a joint Kyoto project with Russian Gazprom Neft, the Japanese companies said in a statement. This became the first time when Russia awards its quotas on greenhouse gas emissions generated from implementation of the joint implementation project (JI), emission
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
The European Parliament in a new report calls for the establishment of a permanent EU inter-service structure for Arctic affairs. It also wants an Arctic unit to be established within the European External Action Service (EEAS). Read More
