Saturday, November 27th, 2010
BELFAST TELEGRAPH – They are the architectural treasures you glimpse out of the corner of your eye as you’re driving through the countryside or walking through town. But hundreds of them are being allowed to fall into ruin. Ulster Architectural Heritage Society (UAHS) has listed its ‘dirty dozen’ — the worst of the more than 500 once-beautiful buildings
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
ARABIAN BUSINESS – The UAE likes to set records, but some firsts are not as glorious as others. These include having the number-two highest carbon footprint, the number-two highest electricity consumption per capita (in Abu Dhabi) and the number-one highest ecological footprint. “I think a lot of this is caused by the lack of a real
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
COASTWEEK – The Africa Water Atlas uses hundreds of “before and after” shots, detailed new maps and satellite images from 53 countries to show the problems facing Africa’s water supplies, such as the drying of Lake Chad and the erosion of the Nile Delta, as well as new, successful methods of conserving water. Read More
Saturday, November 27th, 2010
ESA- ESA PR 27-2010 A flawless launch has delivered Hylas-1, ESA’s first public-private partnership in a full satellite system, into space. The satellite was released today into its transfer orbit after a textbook launch by an Ariane 5 vehicle from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Read More
Friday, November 26th, 2010
Construction work on Länsimetro, the western extension of the Helsinki Metro system, started with the excavation work of the tunnels in Ruoholahti in November 2009. Today the western metro tunnel is already one kilometre long. According to the plan, excavation is to continue towards the Salmisaari shoreline, which is expected to be reached after year’s end. Tunnelling work
Friday, November 26th, 2010
LE MONDE FRANCE – Astrium, a subsidiary of European aerospace group EADS Space, and the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology have finally sealed Friday in Hanoi a contract for the construction of a Vietnamese satellite observation of Earth. This contract of 56 million euros was signed during the visit of the new French State Secretary for
Friday, November 26th, 2010
TIMES OF INDIA – It has been almost two years now, since the southern railway began the construction of an 18-m wide road along the city’s ambitious mass rail transit system, dubbed as the city’s first ever multi-modal transport system, primarily to help people to transfer smoothly between bus and rail transport. The integration of road and
Friday, November 26th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – A team of Meteorologists from the British Met Office are in the country to support the country’s capacity in climate science. A statement released by the British High Commission in Kigali indicates that the Met Office, UK’s National Weather Service, has been working on climate change for more than two decades. The meteorologists, one of
Friday, November 26th, 2010
VOR – We propose to create a “road map” of joint actions for the next decade and to define concrete steps to implement a program of trade and economic cooperation between the SCO member-states. I believe we have all the opportunities for such joint development, for instance huge transport and transit potential within the SCO. I
Thursday, November 25th, 2010
VEOLIA FRANCE – At the Salon of mayors, Jean-Pierre Fréchette, Deputy Managing Director of Veolia Environnement in charge of local authorities, and Jérôme Bignon, President of the Coastal Shores and France, signed an agreement for three years, for the protection and enhancement of wetlands Coastal Conservancy. Wetlands perform many ecological functions in the territories: regulating and self-purification
