Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
Almost a year after the Japanese Tohoku earthquake and mega-tsunami, the Pacific Ocean is still dealing with the consequences of the catastrophe. A mass of debris was washed out to sea as floodwaters receded from the land, and some of that wreckage continues to float around the ocean. Most of it headed eastwards, according to modelling
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
The Indian Space Research Organisation’s launching of Chandrayaan-1, the country’s first-ever moon probe, that detected water on the moon and its subsequent announcement that it would land an Indian on the planet by 2020 were celebrated events that sent sky-high the scientific community’s fame a couple of years back. So any fall from such dizzying and
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
The 28th Chinese expedition to the South Pole took aerial photos of the Dark Glacier on the fringes of the Antarctic Ice Sheet with the use of a helicopter, Xinhua reports. Mo Yubing, from the Heilongjiang Geographical Mapping Bureau, said that the whole process was carried out using a 60 million pixel digital camera attached to
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
“Italian agriculture is now in a real situation of emergency. One farm out of three is at risk. Budgets are more and more ‘in the red’. Production costs (especially beacuse of the increase in the price of diesel), are uncomfortably soaring and so are contributions and the suffocating ‘weight’ of bureaucracy. In 2011, more than
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
According to The Huffington Post, a report commissioned by the Netherlands-based Wetlands International said Malaysia is uprooting an average of 2% of its rainforests in Sarawak every year, its largest state located on the island of Borneo, or nearly 10% in the past five years. Read More
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
An out-of-date chart at St Angelo airport may have been consulted by the pilot of a helicopter that crashed killing three men, an inquest heard. Charles Stisted, Ian Wooldridge, and their pilot Anthony Smith died when their aircraft hit Shanlieve Mountain in the Mournes in October 2010. Read More
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
Satelite navigation systems are at risk from criminals, terrorists or even just bored teenagers, with the potential to cause major incidents from maritime disasters to chaos in financial markets, leading experts warned on Wednesday. From maps on car dashboards and mobile phones, to road tolls, aviation and marine navigation systems and even financial exchanges, much of
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
The climate of 2011 was dominated by two La Niña events: a strong event peaking over the summer of 2010–11 and a second La Niña which developed in late 2011. This contributed to record rainfall for Australia over a two-year period and cooler than average temperatures over most of Australia last year, particularly in the
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Oman represents one of the fastest growing power and water sectors in the Middle East region with electricity and desalinated water demand expected to increase until 2017 at an average growth rate of about 9% per year according to the Oman Power and Water Procurement Company’s 7-Year Statement 2011-1017. To face the increasing demand, Oman
Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Biomass accounts for less than 2pc of Ireland’s total final energy consumption, whereas it is nearly six times this figure (11.6pc) across the EU. And Ireland will be the last country in the EU to introduce elevated prices for renewables such as Renewable Energy Feed In Tariffs (REFIT). Read More
