Friday, August 26th, 2011
In Kenya, a Chinese-manufactured Android phone has taken the mobile market by storm. Starting in September, frugal Germans will be able to buy a similar discount Android from the same company — for a hundred euros. Read More
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
The failure of the Progress M-12M cargo ship launch on Wednesday may raise questions about the future of the Russian space program, as the Soyuz carrier is currently the only rocket used to supply the ISS. The recovery process and search for the crashed cargo has been hampered at the moment by severe bad weather in
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Bulgaria’s Cabinet has declared the road from the Danube city of Ruse on the Romanian border to the Makaza Pass on the Greece border to be a project “of national importance” in a long-awaited move. The Ruse-Makaza road linking Romania and Greece through Central Bulgaria is supposed to be part of the Pan-European Transport Corridor No. 9 leading from Helsinki, the Baltic states, Moscow, Kiev, and Bucharest to the Greek port
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Alcoa is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Alumar Environmental Park in São Luis, Brazil, located on the site of the Alumar complex, one of the world’s largest primary aluminum and alumina facilities. This ecological sanctuary, which covers 1,800 hectares (4,447 acres), is an example of Alcoa’s “Smelter in the Park” model of industrial and environmental
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Australia’s parliament yesterday endorsed the world’s first national scheme that regulates the creation and trade of carbon credits from farming and forestry, complementing government plans to put a price on carbon emissions from mid-2012. The laws, the first major bills passed by the government with the Greens’ support in the Senate since the Greens took the
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Leading water service providers in the country have been urged to plough back their revenue into catchment protection activities. According to the Tana Water Service Provider chairman Charles Muthuri, the water service providers should resuscitate some of its income to activities such as educating the community on importance of planting trees. “According to research, it is
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Conservation groups are far from pleased with draft sanctuaries for northern Australian waters. Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke released the details today, saying the ocean’s fragile marine life deserved protection. A proposed network of reserves covers global refuges for turtles, dugongs and sawfish as well as the world’s largest breeding and feeding ground for whale sharks. Read
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
The Moscow city government plans to equip the city’s municipal vehicles with Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) by the end of 2013, according to a project released on the city government’s transport and transport infrastructure department’s Web site Tuesday. The Moscow city government also plans to start equipping the city’s public transport with GLONASS in
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Our planet has about 8.7 million living species, of which 6.5 million evolve on land and 2.2 million in the aquatic environment, according to the most accurate estimate ever done and published Tuesday, August 23 United States . Only 1.23 million (or 14.1% of total) of them have so far been discovered, described and cataloged, the
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
The Resources Ministry has issued an international call for applications for oil exploration licences in areas south and west of Malta. The government is offering exploration licences and exploration and production licences in Area 1, Area 4, Area 5 and Area 6. The offer closes in December. Mediterranean Oil & Gas and Heritage Oil currently holds an oil
