Saturday, March 24th, 2012
The state spends a fraction of what countries like Mexico and Japan spend on their systems. One reason for the lack of interest, experts say, is that California has not experienced a catastrophic quake in more than a century. Read More
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Recent studies show that satellite radar data can be exploited to map forest height, 3D forest structure and their natural or anthropogenic disturbance with high spatial resolution and accuracy. Since forests assist in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, this could prove to be an important tool for assessing carbon stocks and monitoring our planet’s resources. Polarimetric
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Norway’s oil major Statoil announces it will be opening an office in Harstad, Northern Norway, as part of its push towards the north. Statoil is setting up a separate operational area in Northern Norway due to the considerable increase in activities taking place off the three northernmost counties in Norway. Read More
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
A wind farm developer has paid for archaeologists to scan a cluster of seven Neolithic horned cairns near to where 21 turbines will be erected. The 5,000 year old structures at Hill of Shebster, near Thurso, in Caithness, were used for burials and rituals. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) equipment was used to map the cairns. Read
Saturday, March 24th, 2012
Over 56 million jobs worldwide and $2.2 trillion in GDP are supported by aviation, according to a new report released today at the global Aviation & Environment Summit in Geneva. The report, Aviation: benefits beyond borders, was produced by the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG) and Oxford Economics. It outlines an industry that plays a larger role in the global
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Environment Action Programmes have guided the development of EU environment policy since the early seventies. During this period, environment legislation was consolidated and completed to cover almost all environmental media, with the exception of soil. With the 6th EAP in its final year, the Commission continues to pursue an ambitious environment policy aimed at ensuring
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
The image shows the longest bridge in Europe (including viaducts),located in the Portuguese capital. At the North of the image shows the mouth of the Tagus river. Read More
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Spanish construction company FCC has erected the last pole of the so calledDanube Bridge 2, the so second bridge linking Bulgaria and Romania across the Danube. The last beam of the Vidin-Calafat bridge completed on Wednesday is 44.76 m in height, the FCC company said. The builder is working on completing the bridge platform, the road lanes, and the railway line. As of the end of February 2011, Danube
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
A new study says the cost of damaging our oceans could run up to $2 trillion. Pollution, overfishing and climate change are severely compounding each other and shouldn’t be tackled individually, the report warns. Pollution, overfishing and climate change are just some of the environmental pressures that are amplifying each other more than previously assumed, according
