Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
Despite cranes dotted around the city, relatively few new buildings actually opened their doors to the public in 2010. There was lots of talk: Lansdowne, light rail and a new central library. But, with infrastructure money flowing and a tight deadline to spend it, more seems to have been built below ground than above. The
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
The objectives of the paper are to summarise: (1) observed 20th-century and projected 21st-century changes in key components of the Arctic climate system and (2) probable impacts on the Arctic marine environment, with emphasis on the vulnerabilities of marine and sea ice–based ecosystems.
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
The cabinet under Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif has decided to establish a company to undertake water and sanitary drainage services in the Suez Canal area. The new company will work under the umbrella of an organizational body to be affiliated to the Housing Ministry, Cabinet Spokesman Magdi Radi said. The meeting was attended by Finance Minster Youssef
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
The UAE’s connection to the rest of the online world will receive a boost after a major submarine telecommunications cable was switched on. Etisalat said the India-Middle East-western Europe (I-ME-WE) cable, a 13,000km submarine broadband connection that crosses three continents, has been activated this month. Read More
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
Carbon offset schemes are linking Western consumers with Nepali farmers, and helping both arrive at a better accommodation with nature. But do they just amount to an expensive way to make a worthy donation? Read More
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
2010 was a year of ups and downs for the smart grid industry. While the sector had one of the hottest acquisition records out of the greentech world (OK, that’s not saying much), most of the startups that were bought seemed to have gone for a small to modest price tag. While the stimulus funds
Wednesday, December 29th, 2010
The GeoInformation Group, publishers of Cities Revealed and UKMap, are pleased to announce the release of Solar Energy Mapping, a brand new product that identifies buildings potentially suitable for solar panel installation. Using highly accurate 3D building information and mapping techniques buildings are identified and graded by the amount of sun they receive to determine their
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
The population of the Netherlands has grown in the northern central belt and around other urban centres but is shrinking in some border areas, the national statistics office CBS said on Monday. The population has grown by 269,000 or 1.6% since 2005, the CBS said. The population of Utrecht has grown by 30,000 and Amsterdam
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Outwardly, it looked like just another big space launch — and those happen about once a week, from spaceports all around the world. But Friday’s blast-off of a rocket, carrying a Chinese GPS-style navigation satellite, from the Xi Chang Satellite Launch Center was different. It set a record for successful Chinese launches in one year:
Monday, December 27th, 2010
The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that it has started commercial operation of eco-friendly full-size electric buses on the Mt. Namsan circular routes as of December 21. It is the first time in the world that electronic buses have been put into commercial operations. Read More
