Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
BBC – The UN’s climate science body needs stricter checks to prevent damage to the organisation’s credibility, an independent review has concluded. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has faced mounting pressure over errors in its last major assessment of climate science in 2007. The review said guidelines were needed to ensure IPCC leaders
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
SNIG PORTUGAL – The Portuguese Geographic Institute was awarded in July last, with the Special Achievement in GIS Award, which recognizes organizations that have gone further in using the technology of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The distinction occurred at ESRI International User Meeting – ESRI UC , held in San Diego. Read More
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
TELEGRAPH UK – For 500 years, commodity traders have been trying to conquer the treacherous waters of the Russian Arctic passage – aware of its potential as a lucrative short-cut shipping route. Read More
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – Russian wants joint mapping, joint resource management and joint development with Norway in the Border areas of the Barents Sea. Head of the Russian state university for oil and gas, Anatoly Zolotukhin, underlines the importance of a joint development plan for the former disputed areas of the Barents Sea. In April this year a
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
IRISH TIMES – Madam, – Aris Venetikidis’s new maps of public transport in Dublin are absolutely brilliant! (“Capital idea imagines new way forward”, Home News, August 30th). But isn’t it extraordinary that it takes a foreigner to come up with such an idea, rather than Dublin Bus and Iarnród Éireann, given that such maps have long
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
DER SPIEGEL – It used to be that farmers were concerned about the health of their fields as a whole. New technologies now enable them to care for plants on an individual basis. From fighting fungus to adjusting soil acidity, smart tractors can do it all. Read More
Monday, August 30th, 2010
RapidEye, the only geospatial solutions provider to own and operate a constellation of five identical Earth Observation satellites, announced today that it is celebrating its second year in space after its successful satellite launch in August 2008.As a major milestone, RapidEye imaged its one billionth square kilometer of the surface of the Earth this year
Monday, August 30th, 2010
RIA NOVOSTI – The number of hotspots, visible in infrared light and possibly indicating wildfires, grew from 121 to 131 on Sunday, the fires.kosmosnimki.ru website receiving data from two NASA satellites said. The number of wildfires, which stood at 400-500 in early August, has been gradually decreasing in the past weeks amid a cold spell
Monday, August 30th, 2010
NEW STATESMAN – The UK’s tax authority, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), has said that it will launch reverse value-added tax (VAT) charges for carbon emissions trading from 1 November, replacing a zero tax rate put in place in July 2009 to check fraud. As per the proposed implementation of a reverse charge accounting mechanism,
Monday, August 30th, 2010
ST PETERSBURG TIMES – Buckwheat disappeared from some St. Petersburg stores this week as prices for a number of basic food items in the city grew by an average of 12 percent in August. The reasons behind the shortage are not only the drought, which has damaged many crops in Russia this summer, but also
