Sunday, August 28th, 2011
A massive typhoon sliced through Philippines on Friday at speeds of 185 km/h (115 mph) and producing gusts unto 220 km/h (138 mph). The typhoon sliced through the northern part of the island on Friday and is headed to the South China Sea, off the Taiwanese coast it is expected to travel in the northwestward
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
GEM is a five-year (2008-2013), $100-million geological mapping program administered by Natural Resources Canada’s Geological Survey of Canada. The program is designed to significantly advance and modernize geological knowledge in the North to support increased exploration for new resources. Scientific information gathered through GEM also further informs decisions on land use, such as the creation
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
St. John’s Antigua- Residents are invited to join the discussions on the Antigua & Barbuda Land Use Plan during a series of public consultations to be held between August 29 and September 2, 2011.
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
A clearer picture of Antarctic ice sheets has emerged thanks in part to a Canadian satellite. Using billions of data points collected by Canada’s RADARSAT-2 satellite, as well as European and Japanese satellites, researchers at the University of California Irvine managed to map previously uncharted glaciers on the continent. “It was like a puzzle but (without knowing)
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Engineers in Slovenia have devised a system for testing the boom cranes needed for loading cargo on and off ships using Leica Geosystems total stations. A team of engineers and engineering students, led by Professor Jozef Predan from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maribor, Slovenia, carried out a series of tests
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
The phytoplankton bloom pictured in this Envisat image stretches across the Barents Sea off the coast of mainland Europe’s most northern point, Cape Nordkinn. The southern area of this deep shelf sea – with an average depth of 230 m – remains mostly ice-free due to the warm North Atlantic Drift. This contributes to its high
Friday, August 26th, 2011
The results of Europe’s largest chip reader research project are in, and things look good for the future of electronic identification (ID) documents in the EU. An outcome of the BIOP@SS project, the results lay the technical foundations for such documents, helping the region move towards electronic communication and away from paper correspondence that burdens
Friday, August 26th, 2011
The WOW project is funded by the GEF (Global Environment Facility), The German Government and several other donors, and it is implemented by UNEP as a joint effort by leading global conservation organizations and partners such as Wetlands International, BirdLife International, the AEWA, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, and UNEP-WCMC (World Conservation Monitoring Centre) and
Friday, August 26th, 2011
As World Water Week (21 – 29 August) gets under way, Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs reaffirms the EU’s commitment to meeting the Millennium Development Goal pledge of halving the proportion of people without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation by 2015:
Friday, August 26th, 2011
Two major Arctic shipping routes have opened as summer sea ice melts, European satellites have found. Data recorded by the European Space Agency’s (Esa) Envisat shows both Canada’s Northwest Passage and Russia’s Northern Sea Route open simultaneously. This summer’s melt could break the 2007 record for the smallest area of sea ice since the satellite era began
