Sunday, May 16th, 2010
DAILY TIMES – India will set up a $11 billion dollar fund to upgrade its creaking infrastructure, refinance high cost debt and develop the debt market by issuing more long-term paper, a planning commission adviser said. India has possibly grown 7.2 percent in the fiscal year which ended in March and is expected to grow
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
TIMES OF MALTA – Despite the recent increase in the number of University science graduates and intermittent public educational campaigns, crass misinformation seems to be the order of the day when it comes to environmental management. Two cases illustrate this point. Read More
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
BARENTS OBSERVER – Wave-generated electricity could become more affordable and widely-used, even in the Arctic. Thanks to a Norwegian researcher, a new and unique machine can test the three main methods of wave energy conversion to determine which is the most effective, affordable and ultimately, worth research and development investment. Read More
Sunday, May 16th, 2010
DEUTSCHE WELLE – It is merely 11 years, but in terms of the geopolitical developments that have occurred since NATO last adapted its strategic concept, it was a different era. Read More
Friday, May 14th, 2010
L’MONDE FRANCE – The elements of high technology, solar energy and social glue, luxury and poverty: the five architectural firms rewarded with the fourth edition of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture, Tuesday, May 11 in Paris embody the diversity of approaches and issues of sustainable development in architecture. Read More
Friday, May 14th, 2010
UCL UK – UCL scientists are researching the quality of England’s lakes and ponds and asking everyone to get involved in a project led by UCL’s OPAL (Open Air Laboratories) Water Centre based at the Environmental Change Research Centre within UCL Geography. The project aims to assess existing research which suggests that many ponds and
Friday, May 14th, 2010
RUSSIA & CIS DEFENSE – A plan for replenishing the GLONASS orbital navigation constellation envisions the launch of 14 Glonass-M satellites in 2010-12, Nikolai Testoyedov, the general designer and general director of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems (Reshetnev-ISS, based in Krasnoyarsk territory), told Interfax-AVN. Read More
Friday, May 14th, 2010
IISD – The forest sector in Ghana is the fourth largest foreign exchange earner for the country. The main contributor is the formal forest sub-sector, consisting of regulated industries in timber and timber products. The informal sub-sector, characterised by small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs), has been largely left out in forest planning and management
Friday, May 14th, 2010
DEWHA – The Rudd Government will invest $18.0 million over four years to establish a groundbreaking National Plan for Environmental Information to help protect our precious environmental assets into the future. “The National Plan for Environmental Information is the first step towards long term reform of Australia’s environmental information base, building this critical infrastructure for
Thursday, May 13th, 2010
UNSDI – ESA’s TIGER II initiative has selected 20 project proposals across Africa to receive support from Earth-observation technology to learn more about the water cycle and to improve water-monitoring resources.ESA’s TIGER Capacity Building Facility (TCBF) has been established to support the 20 project proposals, which will receive specific technical assistance, training and scientific support
