Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) has received the report on the first phase of the N360 million World Geodetic Survey of the country’s four international airports for better airspace management and safe air navigation. The project was carried out for NAMA by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that currently
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
PEOPLES DAILY – Development Minister Miguel Jorge said Tuesday that Brazil will invest 735 billion U.S. dollars in the infrastructure, industry and construction sectors in the next three years.At a Brazil-Italy business seminar in Sao Paulo, Jorge said that it is now the best time to invest in the country, whose economy is expected to
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
LANCASHIRE EVENING POST – As many as 10% of Britain’s motorways and A-roads present an unacceptably high risk to drivers, a major report has revealed. Half of all crashes occur on just one tenth of Britain’s road network, the report from the Road Safety Foundation found. Most of the higher-risk roads are in north-west England,
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – Each year, thousands of tons of trees and shrubs are burned in the ovens and cooking fires of the inhabitants of the Puna highland desert plateau in northwestern Argentina. The country’s EcoAndina environmental group has been trying for years to slow the rate of deforestation by pushing solar systems. Today, several hundred
Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
SOFIA BULGARIA – The situation with the level of the river Danube in the Bulgarian stretch is still critical, especially in the Bulgarian north-west. Authorities in the town of Lom report a level of over 855 cm. The riverside town park has been flooded an more an more homes suffer from exceptionally high levels of underground water. The port
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
FLIGHTGLOBAL – With a new Soyuz launch site under construction at the Centre Spatial Guyanais outside Kourou, French Guiana, Arianespace and Russian space agency Roscosmos have signed a contract for 10 Soyuz launches. The additional launches and related support will run until 2016. The deal brings the total of number of Soyuz flights from the centre
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
BBC – Google has announced a “new approach” in its ongoing battle with China over censorship. Until recently, the firm automatically redirected Chinese users to its unfiltered search site in Hong Kong to get round censorship issues. Google has said it will now stop this after Beijing warned it could lose its licence to operate
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
NORWAY POST – Norway’s energy producer Statoil has this week installed the first foundations at sea for the new, large Sheringham Shoal offshore wind project off the Norfolk coast in Great Britain. Over the next nine months, the lift vessel “Svanen” will install the remaining 89 foundations ready for the mounting of two substations and
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
VOICE OF RUSSIA -The Russian research vessel ‘Akademik Fyodorov’ is leaving Murmansk July 15th on a mission to confirm conjectures that the undersea Lomonosov Ridge and the Mendeleev Rise in the Central Arctic Ocean are extensions of the Arctic shelf of Siberia. Under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, this
Monday, June 28th, 2010
TELEGRAPH UK – How on earth do we manage so regularly to run short of water? Here we are, living on a damp collection of islands, surrounded by sea, running with rivers, and slap bang in the way of the wet westerly winds. Yet every year, it seems, we are faced with restrictions. Read More
