Monday, December 6th, 2010
ICIMOD – Experts from leading institutions and government organisations working in the field of climate change in the Himalayan region called attention to mountain issues and challenges in the light of climate change. They linked these issues to the debate on how to mainstream the sustainable development agenda while planning adaptation and mitigation activities, including
Monday, December 6th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – With each year that passes, the global population becomes increasingly reliant upon the Internet and its sparkling array of downloadables. In the context of climate change, that growing dependency has prompted calls for the major players in cloud computing and big data to watch their carbon steps. Read More
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
CNN – Russia’s space agency is investigating the failed launch of three navigational satellites, the agency reported Sunday. The satellites were meant to complete the Russian GLONASS satellite navigation system. But they went into a “non-targeted orbit” following their launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday afternoon, the Federal Space Agency reported. Read More
Sunday, December 5th, 2010
TIMES OF INDIA – “The central government has insisted that urban transportation be given as much attention as basic infrastructure, said municipal commissioner Mahesh Zagade, speaking to TOI from New Delhi after a workshop on urban transportation organised by the central government. “Multi-mode transport is being implemented in growing cities and we have to bring this home
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – New automated weather stations could boost Ethiopia’s fledgling agricultural insurance schemes, expanding the use of payouts triggered by abnormally low rainfall and reducing costly visual verification of yield losses. Read More
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
ABC.AZ – The State Committee for Land &and Cartography of Azerbaijan has conducted work on the opening of a new riverbed of the Arax River. Committee’s head Garib Mammadov says that in this connection it was carried out work on inventory of lands with total area of 11,800 hectares. Read More
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
AAG – Stanford University humanities professors Dan Edlestein and Paula Findlen are currently working with academic technology specialist Nicole Coleman and other colleagues to map the flow of tens of thousands letters across Europe sent by key Enlightenment thinkers during the eighteenth century. Read More
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
BALTIC TIMES – The company Aerodium, maker of the vertical wind tunnel, has acquired 20 new potential customers in China through its participation in the Shanghai World Expo 2010, reports Nozare.lv. Specific details still have to be agreed on within the next few months, says company Chairman Ivars Beitans. Read More
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
IRISH TIMES – ‘Mapping” has become one of the great metaphors of this age. Running parallel to this trend has been a renewed interest in the history of mapping. Rachel Hewitt’s Map of a Nation is a valuable addition to this genre. Her Biography of the Ordnance Survey , is a lively, well-written and carefully researched evocation of
Saturday, December 4th, 2010
GLOBAL VOICES – “Help Map” is a project to crowdsource and map unprecedented wildfires outside of Moscow in summer 2010. The project quickly became an important base for volunteers to provide resources and lend a hand during weeks of crisis. Global Voices articles covering the “Help Map” can be found in Global Voices ‘ Russian Wildfires 2010
