Monday, December 27th, 2010
GCC countries plan to invest about $3 trillion on infrastructure, leisure and tourism sector by 2020 to diversify their economies and exports as well to get the advantage of growing trade and investment ties with China and India, says a report. “Having realised the urgent need for economic diversification since the past few years, focus on
Monday, December 27th, 2010
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond today confirmed that the Government’s proposed high speed rail network – which would link London to the West Midlands, Manchester and Leeds – will include a direct link to Heathrow and to the European high speed rail network. Read More
Monday, December 27th, 2010
Karre further expressed hopes that a Memorandum of Understanding on environment and energy technology and sustainable urban development cooperation will be shortly signed with the UAE. A Swedish presence in Masdar City is also under way and will be realised in 2011, with several companies already interested,” she stressed adding that a “SymbioCity – Sustainability
Monday, December 27th, 2010
In what could revive controversy over the state of glaciers in the Himalayas, researchers associated with the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) and the government-run Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology suggest that aerosols such as soot—tiny particles that are often the result of insufficiently burnt gases—may be playing a key role in affecting glacier health.
Monday, December 27th, 2010
The year started badly after the failure of the Copenhagen climate summit and got worse with the ‘climategate’ scandal and the largest oil spill in US history. But it was a good year for tigers and wildlife. Read More
Saturday, December 25th, 2010
For years, Nokia effortlessly dominated the cell phone market. But then Apple and Google muscled in on its turf and changed the game forever. The Finnish company is pinning its hopes on a new operating system, but it might be too little, too late. Read More
Saturday, December 25th, 2010
Leader Kim Jong Il of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has lately called for a “great offensive” to boost the country’s infrastructure construction. The general secretary of the ruling Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) made the appeal when inspecting a power station under construction in the northern city of Huichon, leading daily Rodong
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
The Geospatial Information Authority of Japan has created a set of 13 topographic maps of the northern territories, the first time such maps have been produced in 88 years. The authority, which created the maps using satellite pictures, started selling them this month. As the islands have been illegally occupied by Russia since the end of World
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010
A collection of scientists is claiming that 1.5 billion hectares of land—or roughly the size of Russia—could be reforested with a combined effort. When you follow the news on a daily basis, it can be easy to surrender yourself to the gloom of the future being presented. Wars rage around the world, fossil fuels are
Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
To help authorities and emergency services plan for the risk of flooding in the unlikely event that a reservoir failed, maps showing areas that could flood have now been published online. Dam breach and flood modelling techniques were used to produce a national set of reservoir flood maps for England and Wales. The maps were created
