Monday, November 22nd, 2010
THE INDEPENDENT – The nation’s fleet of ageing Intercity trains is to be replaced, at a cost of £7.5bn, ministers will announce this week. A consortium including Hitachi and the British infrastructure project manager John Laingare the preferred bidders on the contract. Read More
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
DEFRA – Rescue services in England and Wales are to receive funding to help equip and train local flood rescue teams. The Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (Defra) has announced a total of £2million to improve flood rescue capability. Grants totalling approximately £650,000 have been awarded from the fund today. Read More
Saturday, November 20th, 2010
Before the celebration of the Territorial Pamplona 2010, Conference on Land Information Systems, SITNA renewed its offer of information and services to the people of Navarre. Read More
Friday, November 19th, 2010
DER SPIEGEL – European companies are facing serious shortages of vital raw materials. China is holding back the export of rare earths, which are needed for high-tech products. A new EU strategy paper, which has been obtained by SPIEGEL ONLINE, seeks to address the resource crunch. But critics say it does not go far enough. Read More
Friday, November 19th, 2010
RIA NOVOSTI – The polar bear tagged by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has rid himself of his tagged satellite collar, Vesti TV channel reported on Thursday, quoting the premier’s web site. Putin put the satellite collar on a polar bear during a trip in April 2010 to Alexandra Land, one of the islands of the Franz
Friday, November 19th, 2010
JERUSALEM POST – An int’l research team at urging of TAU, Hebrew U. professors will drill half a kilometer to study year-by-year climate change from 500,000 years ago. Read More
Friday, November 19th, 2010
BBC – Scientists think they can now explain the sequence of events deep inside the Earth that led to the major volcanic eruptions on Iceland earlier this year. Using data from satellite radar, GPS, and seismometers, the group has sketched a blueprint for the “plumbing” underneath Eyjafjallajokull. Read More
Friday, November 19th, 2010
ESA – Marking a significant milestone for Europe’s next fleet of meteorological satellites, ESA has given the go-ahead to Thales Alenia Space in France to start work on developing the Meteosat Third Generation. Read More
Friday, November 19th, 2010
CSIRO – CSIRO’s graphics processing unit (GPU) cluster is now Australia’s ‘greenest’ supercomputer ranking 11th on an internationally recognised list of the world’s 500 fastest and most energy efficient supercomputers – the Green500 List. Read More
Thursday, November 18th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The Norilsk-Nickel operated vessel Monchegorsk arrived at the port of Dudinka on Thuesday after a 41 day long round-trip to China via the Northern Sea Route. The ice-classed diesel-electric vessel sailed from Murmansk on September 15 via the port of Dudinka by the Yenisei River and further to Shanghai with metal. She became the first
