Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
24 DASH – The London Borough of Sutton has won a £150,000 grant to help make businesses inthe UK’s first ‘sustainable suburb’ greener and more cost effective. Sutton Council will work with environmental charity BioRegional to give local businesses in Hackbridge the skills they need to reduce their impact on the environment and make the
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
GUARDIAN UK – n the decades since, space has become rather more cluttered: in the same way that once-pristine countryside is now littered with fly-tipped fridges, rusting cars, soggy fag ends and squashed tinnies, space, thanks to humans, now boasts an estimated 5,500 tonnes of redundant spacecraft that were abandoned once their mission came to
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
NORWAY POST – Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg will succeed former UK prime minister Gordon Brown as co-chair of a U.N. group looking at ways to raise funds to help poor nations to combat climate. Read More
Monday, June 7th, 2010
ITAR TASS – Russia’s “High-Latitude Arctic” expedition is heading for the northern port of Murmansk. Russian polar explorers, members of the “High-Latitude Arctic-2010” expedition and the crew of the icebreaker ‘Rossia’ officially closed the North Pole – 37 drifting station in the Arctic on Saturday. Read More
Monday, June 7th, 2010
EU – The European Commission has launched Scientix, a new web-portal targeted towards teachers, researchers, policy makers, local actors, parents and anyone interested in science education. Scientix will give access to teaching materials, research results and policy documents from European science education projects financed by the European Union and by various national initiatives. The new
Monday, June 7th, 2010
NATIONAL UAE – Climate negotiators are in the German city of Bonn this week debating a stalled proposal to award UN-administered carbon credits to projects that capture and bury carbon dioxide. Read More
Monday, June 7th, 2010
IRISH TIMES – It is clear from the early pictures of the raw young university, engineers have been a feature of Stanford from its very launch. More that a quarter of its first 559 students were engineering students. A gathering of civil engineering students and faculty in 1891 looks like extras from the Hollywood western Tombstone
Monday, June 7th, 2010
L’MONDE FRANCE – The condition of the environment is improving in France on certain points, but the overall balance remains a concern. The 2010 report prepared every four years by statisticians at the Department of Ecology, posted Friday, June 4, only 130 pages (against 500). It is packed with data, and gives an overview the most complete
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
Syria and Turkey will establish a joint company to produce solar panels and other renewable energy equipment, it was announced. The company will be a joint venture between Syria’s General Organisation for Engineering Industries (GOEI) and the Turkish Barak Company. It will have an initial capital of SYP 184m (USD 4m), employ 100 workers and
Sunday, June 6th, 2010
SAUDI GAZETTE – The Ministry of Education is building 874 multi-purpose auditoriums for girls and boys all over the Kingdom for extracurricular activities at a cost of SR6.4 billon, said Fahd Al-Hamad, Supervisor General of the Building Agency at the Ministry of Education here.He said the projects being carried out by a Chinese consortium will
