Friday, July 2nd, 2010
JERUSALEM POST – Video surveillance cameras have been installed in public and private places all over Israel and around the world to monitor crimes and accidents and to promote security around the clock. But going over the reams of images takes a great deal of manpower and is very time consuming.Now Hebrew University researchers have
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
BBC – Europe’s Smos mission is slowly but surely meeting the challenge of measuring soil moisture and ocean salinity from space. The satellite, launched late last year, is attempting to make global maps of these two important parameters using an innovative detection technique. Its sole instrument, an 8m-wide interferometric radiometer, gives Smos the look of
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
NATIONAL UAE – Abu Dhabi Ports Company (ADPC) will finish building within weeks the first phase of a 2.7 square km offshore port in Taweelah, part of the emirate’s largest infrastructure project.The initial phase of Khalifa Port and Industrial Zone (KPIZ) will open in late 2012 but later phases will not be fully completed for
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
JAKARTA POST – At the Oslo Climate and Forest Conference, the Indonesian and Norway governments had signed a partnership agreement on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) with an immediate two-year moratorium. The deal signed with Norway aimed at mitigating greenhouse gas emissions earnings worth US$1 billion. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono pledged that
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
ARECA – A common theory, is that, we as landowners, own everything “from the centre of the earth to heavens.” This may, or may not apply based on the concept of reasonable usage. Landowners own the surface of the land and the airspace above the surface, to the point where they can no longer prove
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – The world’s first floating nuclear power plant will be set afloat on Wednesday. The plant will be operational in the Russian Arctic by the end of 2012. The solemn ceremony marking the launching of the plant will take place at the Baltic shipyard in St. Petersburg on Wednesday June 30, reports the
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
EEA – Intensive farming has long been a major cause of biodiversity decline in Europe. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) new short assessment examines Europe’s efforts to strike a balance between producing sufficient food and maintaining agro-ecosystems that are rich in biodiversity above and below ground. Read More
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
EU – The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending CZK 500 million (approx. EUR 19 million) to the Vysočina Region (south-east Czech Republic) to improve regional infrastructure and upgrade the local road network. Long-term EIB funds, provided on favourable terms at a time of difficult market conditions, will help the Vysočina Region to implement priority
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
CBC -Ontario and Quebec residents shaken by the magnitude 5.0 earthquake last week are being asked to share their experiences with a federal research project. The epicentre of the June 23 earthquake was about 50 kilometres north of Ottawa, and it was felt across southern and eastern Ontario and western Quebec, as well as in
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
BC GOV – The Province is inviting input until July 9 to develop an implementation plan for the Zero Net Deforestation Act passed earlier this year. The act’s main goal is to achieve zero net deforestation in British Columbia by 2015. Planting trees to convert non-forest lands into forested areas and finding ways to
