Friday, August 13th, 2010
BBC – A cable which will link wave energy machines off the Cornwall coast with the national grid is about 200m (650ft) from the shore. The cable for the £42m Wave Hub project was dragged by tug from a ship 2km (1.25 miles) offshore and was connected to a winch on land. The winch is
Friday, August 13th, 2010
AP – Floods, fires, melting ice and feverish heat: From smoke-choked Moscow to water-soaked Iowa and the High Arctic, the planet seems to be having a midsummer breakdown. It’s not just a portent of things to come, scientists say, but a sign of troubling climate change already under way. The weather-related cataclysms of July and
Friday, August 13th, 2010
INDEPENDENT UK – China’s growing thirst for water is driving one of the world’s biggest mass relocations, with 440,000 people leaving their homes to make way for a huge man-made canal project to channel water to drought-prone Beijing. An advance party of 499 villagers were moved yesterday from their homes near Wuhan in Hubei
Friday, August 13th, 2010
RIA NOVOSTI – Satellite monitoring showed a significant drop in the number of wildfire hotspots on the Russian territory with only 359 registered on Thursday, according to the ScanEx website that receives information from two NASA satellites. The Aqua satellite, equipped with an atmospheric infrared sounder, and Terra, equipped with a thermal emission and reflection
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
GLASGOW EVENING TIMES – Hopes are high that a final plan will be complete by the end of this year to allow an early decision and work to start as soon as possible. It would be the first significant modernisation in more than 30 years. Glasgow SNP MSP Bob Doris met with Transport Minister Stewart
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
L’EXPRESS FRANCE – No problem – according to the Institute of Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety (IRSN). Almost 4,000 hectares of land polluted by nuclear fallout from Chernobyl have been affected by fires in Russia since July. This was announced by the Forest Service monitoring the Russian Wednesday, August 11. Read More
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica says her department is concerned about the impact of deteriorating water quality in the country and has called on role players to come up with ways to avert the situation. Speaking at an AgriSA Water Conference on Wednesday, Sonjica said one of the successful intervention
Thursday, August 12th, 2010
JERUSALEM POST – Airborne sensors developed in Israel are helping to detect land mines in Angola, one of the most heavily mined countries in the world. While the civil war in the east African nation ended in 1994, the loss of life and limbs continue till this day because of the estimated millions of land mines
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
L’MONDE FRANCE – Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday new cars in Russia will be equipped by 2012 with the Russian system GLONASS satellite navigation, presented as a competitor to the American GPS. “I think that from 2012 all new cars could sell with this integrated system to raise the level of safety on roads,
Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
MALTA TIMES – A total 2,087 applications for subsidies on the purchase of photovoltaic systems for domestic use have been received by the Malta Resources Authority. A grant letter will be issued to those applicants who have satisfied all the requirements established by government notice published in the Government Gazette on July 22. Once the grant
