Monday, November 21st, 2011
ESA has recently provided Air France with over 1200 new images to incorporate into the in-flight Geovision programme which displays captivating satellite views that link to the route on the onboard screens. The mesmerising scenes have been selected by ESA from various Earth observation satellites, including ESA’s Envisat and Proba, Korea’s Kompsat and France’s Spot. Read
Monday, November 21st, 2011
A new £20 million fund to help rural businesses increase profits and reduce their impact on the environment has been launched today by Agriculture Minister Jim Paice. Farmers, foresters and horticulturalists can apply for grants of up to £25,000 to invest in green projects and new machinery so their businesses can grow in an environmentally friendly
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
Osama Al Bar, the mayor of Makkah has said the Saudi government plans to spend an estimated SR100bn ($26.66bn) on implementing mega infrastructure and housing projects in the holy city of Mecca, Arabic al-Riyadh daily has reported. The infrastructure projects include the construction of roads and restroom complexes, and the expansion of open areas, roads
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
In the flat world of maps, sharp lines show where one country ends and another begins. The real world is more fluid. Peoples do not have borders the way that parcels of land do. They seep from place to place; they wander; they migrate. Consider the difference between China and the Chinese people. One is an
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
n a withering assault on the onshore wind turbine industry, the Duke said the farms were “a disgrace”. He also criticised the industry’s reliance on subsidies from electricity customers, claimed wind farms would “never work” and accused people who support them of believing in a “fairy tale”. Read More
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
A documentary on Maltese wildlife was recently launched at St James Cavalier, Valletta. Entitled Man Marries Nature, the documentary has been three years in the making and features high-definition footage of all forms of Maltese biodiversity, including a number of rarely seen animal species , such as the chameleon, the leopard snake, the ocellated skink, the
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
For decades, oil was the engine of development in the Arab world. But the oil era is drawing to a close and Arab societies are poorly prepared for this change, according to the Arab Forum for Environment and Development. Read More
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Australia will play a lead role in co-ordinating rapid response natural disaster teams across the Asia Pacific under a new international agreement expected to be signed in the coming days. The region-wide disaster plan will push for quarantine laws to be relaxed for quick deployment of Australian sniffer dogs as well as flood and disaster mapping
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
Using Geographic Information System (GIS) nowadays has been significant and relevant considering how the world has become so technology-oriented, and its impact on development planning necessary. Thus said City Mayor Maloney Samaco in his welcome remarks yesterday during the conduct of the first-ever GIS celebration held at the city gym here that carried the theme “GIS
Saturday, November 19th, 2011
The UK consists of 60m acres of land, of which two-thirds is owned by 0.36% of the population, or 158,000 households. By contrast, 24m households live on 3m urban acres – just 5% of UK’s total acreage. If economist Kate Barker’s target of 250,000 homes were built annually for 25 years (creating of 6.3m new
