Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
DER SPIEGEL – Rather than an annual road tax for their cars, drivers in the Netherlands will soon pay a few cents for every kilometer on the road, in a plan aimed at eliminating chronic traffic jams and cutting carbon emissions. Read More
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
INDEPENDENT UK – Bees are being fitted with tiny radio ID tags to monitor their movements as part of research into whether pesticides could be giving the insects brain disorders, scientists said today. The study is examining concerns that pesticides could be damaging bees’ abilities to gather food, navigate and even perform their famous
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
CBC – The Alberta government is earmarking $2 billion to promote public transit in cities and towns across the province, with the lion’s share going to Calgary and Edmonton, officials said Tuesday. The Green Transit Incentives Program — or GreenTrip — will make $800 million available to the Calgary area and the same amount for
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
DER TAGESSPIEGEL – Athe the end of the 19th Century Berlin became the world city, but also to those tenements metropolis, which was the verdict of the generation of the 1920s as a haphazard, pretentious and anti-social. The capital has grown to become the largest industrial center of Europe, it flourished most part, that’s right. But alongside the
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
TELEGRAPH UK – Scientists who believe in man-made climate change are more esteemed than those who actively oppose the concept, according to a new paper. Read More
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
ALL AFRICA – Kenya could soon tap more into its huge wind energy potential if ongoing feasibility studies turn out successful. All then seems set fair for a multimillion dollar infrastructure spending spree in wind energy in the region. These prospects are already attracting some of the world’s most powerful corporations as the renewal energy
Monday, June 21st, 2010
THE ECONOMIST – Hardly a day passes without new data on mobile apps, the small applications that can be downloaded to smart-phones to perform all kinds of feats, such as accessing social networks, playing games and identifying unknown music. Apple recently announced that its App Store now offers 225,000 apps, which collectively have been downloaded
Monday, June 21st, 2010
DUTCH NEWS – Amsterdam’s historic canal rings will be included on the Unesco World Heritage listing a Unesco official reportedly said on Monday. Deputy director Kishore Rao was speaking at the official announcement of the inclusion of the Wadden Sea on the heritage list, the Parool reports. Amsterdam city council has been keen to be
Monday, June 21st, 2010
L’EXPRESS FRANCE – The 6B is a new place of creation and dissemination. Recycling an old office building, the project supports the transformation of the neighborhood “station-confluence” in Saint-Denis. Read More
Monday, June 21st, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – 23 years after Mikhail Gorbachev suggested setting up a Soviet-Norwegian cooperation to jointly explore the energy resources in the Arctic, Statoil and Gazprom have signed an agreement that opens for cooperation in such area as geological exploration in the Barents Sea. The Statoil – Gazprom agreement on scientific and technological cooperation was signed
