Sunday, November 7th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The agreement between Russian and Norway on delimitation of the Barents Sea will result in Norway concentrating on more easily accessible resources and withdrawing from the development of the Shtokman gas field, a Russian scientist believes. Vladimir Selin, Chief Research Scientist at the Kola Science Center, believes that the agreement on delimitation of the
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
INHABITAT – Estuaries may be good for more than harboring wildlife and creating beautiful scenery; they could also supply power to the grid, according to researchers at the Dutch Center for Sustainable Water Technology, the University of Groningen and the University of Twente. Read More
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
CABE – There were no fewer than 750 entries and they present a striking urban kaleidoscope from across the country, from Holbeck in Leeds to Weymouth harbour in Dorset. People find beauty in carnivals and colourful street markets but many more entries celebrate nature in some way, from the well groomed Cambridge Backs to weeds randomly
Sunday, November 7th, 2010
LE MONDE FRANCE – After an earthquake, a hurricane but also of conflict, the urgency comes in medicines, tents and bottled water. But not only plead Unesco and the International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP), which makes the reconstruction of education and continuity of school life priorities. To help States to better anticipate and react quickly, the
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
WEEKLY TRUST – After yet another round of disbursement from the N200 billion Commercial Agricultural Credit Scheme (CACS) loan that was hitherto laying in banks’ coffers, farmers across the country – especially peasant farmers who produce the bulk of agricultural produce – are still unaware and also finding it difficult to have a piece of the
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – In the Nile Delta town of New Nubaria, about 80 kilometers from the Mediterranean, donkeys, cattle and goats seek shelter in the shade of date palms. Around them, black irrigation tubes stick out of the hot sand. It was here that, in the 1980s, the government turned 250,000 hectares of desert into arable land
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
NORWAY POST – SN Power, owned by Norway’s Statkraft (60%) and Norfund (40%), has inaugurated two hydro power plants in Chile, which will contribute with more than 310 MW of clean energy. This is enough to supply more than 900 thousand Chilean households with renewable electricity. Read More
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
RELIEFWEB – The analysis has been conducted over a period of years, and it brings into light new aspects of pirates’ behavioural patterns. The output of this particular activity of UNOSAT consists of periodical updates and maps including statistical analyses as well as evidence based conclusions that in some cases challenge common perceptions concerning the security
Saturday, November 6th, 2010
Engineers at Microsoft Research Asia are analyzing GPS data culled from 30,000 Beijing cab drivers, hoping to find faster and shorter routes. They built a software program called T-Drive that uses real cabbies’ trajectories gathered over a period of three months. On average, the cabbies’ routes shave off 16 percent of a trip, saving 5 minutes
Friday, November 5th, 2010
ESA – Once the world’s fourth-largest inland body of water, the Aral Sea has been steadily shrinking over the past 50 years since the rivers that fed it were diverted for irrigation projects. By the end of the 1980s, little water was reaching the lake causing it to split into two sections: the Small Aral
