Tuesday, October 26th, 2010
BUSINESS STANDARD – The Indo-Russian Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA), already planned to be loaded with top-end combat features like advanced stealth and super-cruise capability, could also be plugged, uniquely, into a network of satellites. With Moscow willing to grant India unprecedented access to military signals from Russia’s constellation of GLONASS (GLObal NAvigation Satellite System) satellites,
Monday, October 25th, 2010
NORWAY POST – Norway and Japan will increase cooperation in space. The Norwegian Space Centre (NSC) and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have now signed a new and broader agreement. Read More
Monday, October 25th, 2010
LIVING LB – The prize values Citilab as a citizen’s laboratory and the work of ValueCreation at SeniorLab. The project aims to overcome the digital gap older citizens suffer, include elders in the co-design of innovative solutions for their well being and create new professional profiles and jobs for citizens over 55 years. The project was
Monday, October 25th, 2010
EXAMINER – EurOCEAN 2010, through the European Science Foundation, published their latest report stating that Europe can derive 50% of its electricity demand from ocean and marine renewable energy by 2050. The Marine Board of the European Science Foundation (ESF) released its report earlier today stating its vision on marine renewable energy sources and how Europe could
Monday, October 25th, 2010
BBC – The UK government should create a new ministerial post for green economics, an international policy group that includes MPs past and present has said. The minister would play a role similar to the Treasury chief secretary, but looking after “natural capital”. Read More
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
UCL – Professor Hugh Clout has been elected to the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) for his sustained research and publication on the geography of France. With occasional forays into recent issues, over the past forty plus years he has concentrated on aspects of the historical geography of France, producing books and articles on
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
ISPRA ITALY – The fifth report on the climate in Italy shows the development in 2009 of the main climate indicators derived from the National System for the collection, compilation and dissemination of climatological data of environmental interest, created in collaboration with ISPRA data bodies retain the main observational networks on the national territory. Read
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
IFREMER – Mission accomplished: MoMARSAT oceanographic campaign, which began on 1 October 2010, jointly conducted by Ifremer and the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) (CNRS / Université Paris Diderot, UPMC), was completed Saturday, October 16 successfully. One of the first seafloor observatories has now been installed and transmits data to the Centre Ifremer de
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The future center for oil and gas lies in the eastern parts of the Barents Sea, believes the country’s Minister of Petroleum and Energy Terje Riis-Johansen. The minister called September 15, when Norway and Russian signed an agreement on delimitation of the Barents and Polar Sea “a historical date”, and said that
Saturday, October 23rd, 2010
HURRIYET TURKEY- Turkey has been experiencing a great housing evolution over the last 10 years, Erdoğan Bayraktar, head of the Housing Development Administration of Turkey, or TOKİ, said Thursday. Speaking at the Housing Conference held in Istanbul, Bayraktar said, “TOKİ has constructed a total of 460,000 houses over the decade and the institution is about
