Monday, October 11th, 2010
CSIRO – The authors of a new book have called for the development of more robust international ocean and ice sheet monitoring and modelling programs designed to help community adaptation planning keep pace with the threatof rising sea levels. Read More
Monday, October 11th, 2010
IFREMER – Unprecedented program of the World Census of marine life carried out since 2000, Census of Marine Life (CoML) concludes today in London. He has documented a sea change in diversity with richer and more suffering greatly impacts caused by humans than previously thought. Ifremer has participated in this program during these ten years, particularly through exploration
Monday, October 11th, 2010
GLOBAL ARAB NETWORK – Participants in the first session of the 26th GCC environmental coordination committee meeting discussed on Sunday here a number of key issues, mainly the GCC ‘Green’ initiative and sustainable development. During the session, outcomes of the third committee meeting of the initiative, as well as recommendations of the 25th GCC environmental coordination committee
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
INDEPENDENT UK – Water, sun and wind: Morocco has launched an ambitious programme to harness the elements to produce “green” electricity to reduce its dependence on energy imports. And eventually it even hopes to export the energy produced. Lining the hills of Dhar Saadane, 126 windmills overlook the city of Tangiers, in what site manager Loubna Farabi says
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
THE HIMALAYAN – Ecosystem services build on ecological values like clean air, clean and abundant water, and wildlife habitat that benefits human communities to enjoy natural process and biological diversity can create ecosystem market that helps to provide biodiversity conservation and economic development of human community. Read More
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
building co uk – Paul Morrell, the government’s chief construction adviser, has indicated that publically procured building projects will be required to adopt building information modelling. The concept behind building information modelling or BIM is that everyone on the project shares the same 3D CAD model to design, build and, ultimately, run the building. Read More
Sunday, October 10th, 2010
BBC – A lightweight pair of augmented reality glasses that overlay the world with digital content, such as directions or a travel guide, has debuted in Japan. The headset, created by Olympus and phone-maker NTT Docomo, uses augmented reality software on an attached phone. Read More
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
HURRIYET TURKEY – Hungarian police and soldiers evacuated 800 villagers Saturday as authorities said a second flood of toxic sludge from a chemicals plant was likely after new cracks appeared in a dyke. Read More
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
EL PAIS – The Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade has set a 2015 deadline to completely eliminate the role of the public administration. To implement e-Government by 2015 records will be digitized for all paperwork with complete integration of electronic signatures (electronic ID) and there will be a migration of all records into digital format. Read
Saturday, October 9th, 2010
RIA NOVOSTI – People still have not destroyed the biological diversity of Lake Baikal, deputy director of the Limnological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said on Saturday. “The level of Lake Baikal’s biological pollution is low, it can be compared to the pollution of the Arctic Ocean,” Alexander Suturin said. Read More
