Thursday, May 20th, 2010
RIA NOVOSTI – “Ukraine needs an alternative – apart from GPS, the GLONASS system is needed. This fits with the national interests of Ukraine – we cannot depend on only one system,” Semynozhenko said at a news briefing. Russia has proposed setting up a joint venture with Ukraine for the development and implementation of the
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
ENV COMM ONTARIO – Ontario’s land use planning system shapes how our communities develop and what activities may take place on the broader landscape. At the core of this system is the Planning Act, which is the primary land use planning law that affects municipalities and privately-owned lands. Under the authority of this law, detailed
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
HINDUSTAN TIMES – Geography as a discipline is an interesting and useful course dwelling on natural attributes, human dimensions and interrelations between both that is nature and man. The subject along with theoretical aspects also deals with applications and practical work. It instills in you the holistic vision if you want to deal with any
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
ALL AFRICA – The raging now over the sharing of the River Nile’s waters is nothing new. It is over 10 years now, since Nile Basin countries started negotiations to reach an agreement on how best to share this vital resource. While four countries – Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Ethiopia -out of 10 have this
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – More than four billion rubles of federal money will over the next two years be invested in a new electrical substation and new transmission lines in Murmansk Oblast. It is the Federal Grid Company UES, which will construct the substation with a projected capacity of 333 kW, MBnews.ru reports. Read More
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – Water supply is one of the biggest development challenges in Jordan. A large share of the water reserves are in the Jordan Valley, located below sea level. The water has to be piped from there to the consumers – often to cities at an altitude of more than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) above
Monday, May 17th, 2010
MSN AUSTRALIA – In March 2010, social researcher Mark McCrindle finished up a survey of 500 under-18 Australians. He asked participants to keep a media diary mapping all their entertainment activities for a week and discovered that they were spending an average of seven hours and six minutes using entertainment media everyday – that means
Monday, May 17th, 2010
BBC – Scientists have devised a new way to peer into the inner workings of a live honeybee colony, without disturbing the insects inside. The technique, known as Diagnostic Radioentomology (DR), scans a beehive, taking a series of 3D images. This reveals in real-time how many bees are inside, where they are, and gives clues
Monday, May 17th, 2010
L’EXPRESS FRANCE – Armed with GPS by an NGO, Pygmies and Bantu of the world’s second forest mapped the natural heritage. They hope to prevent companies to plunder their resources and to warm the planet a little more. Knee-deep in the waters of a river of amber the Congolese rainforest, three men in thongs scan
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
ETHIOPIAN REVIEW – Embedding a “super” microprocessor from video games into cars will provide drivers with traffic management information McMaster and IBM (IBM) have launched a research project to investigate how the automotive industry can connect a vehicle’s multiple microprocessors, which currently work in isolation, to create a “cognitive car” that can predict vehicle failures
