Friday, August 19th, 2011
A huge network of glaciers, carrying ice thousands of kilometres across Antarctica, has been discovered as a result of space agencies’ efforts to focus their satellites on Earth’s icy regions during the International Polar Year. These new findings are critical to understanding sea-level rise. The International Polar Year (IPY) was an ambitious science programme carried out
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
Riots always happen when cities consider themselves to be at a high point in terms of their urban development,” says Dutch architectural historian Wouter Vanstiphout, speaking to me from his home in Rotterdam. “We’ve studied riots in every decade since the 1960s, and every time you can see that the officials of the city felt
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
The key goal of transport projects under the National Urban Transport Policy (NUTP) is “moving people not vehicles”. As transport projects receiving assistance under JNNURM (Jawaharlal Nehru Urban Renewal Mission) are required to confirm to NUTP, they need to be people-centric. This implies investment priorities favouring public transport and non-motorised transport (NMT). To plan transport infrastructure,
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
EduSat will be controlled by Morehead students from the lead Kentucky Space on-orbit ground operations facility at the university. During its first 30 days in orbit, EduSat will test a new type of orbital deployer designed to release numerous smaller satellites called PocketQubs, invented by Bob Twiggs, former director of the Space Systems Development Lab at
Thursday, August 18th, 2011
The National Trust is launching a survey of all its tree avenues in an attempt to find out more about where they are and the condition they are in. It estimates it has around 500 avenues, which were first planted to provide a natural picture frame to improve views. The trust said tree avenues exemplify “man and
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
The Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA) has recently carried out a number of significant improvements to its website, offering customers and the public alike, a less complex structure for them to have public access and navigate through information for planning applications that require an EIA.
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
This Envisat image shows southern Namibia and northern South Africa on Africa’s lower-west coast. We can clearly see the sand dunes of the Namib Desert – considered to be the oldest desert in the world. Partially located within the Namib-Naukluft National Park, it is also the site of some of the world’s tallest dunes, rising over
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
With the presentation of the European Commission proposals for the Multi-Annual Financial Framework for 2014-2020, we have taken an important step for the future of the CAP. In the current context of economic and budgetary pressure, the European Commission is proposing to maintain CAP spending at 2013 levels, namely €371.7 billion, to which we add
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011
Indonesia has one of the world’s highest deforestation rates and is the worst emitter of greenhouse gases when it comes to slash-and-burn land clearances. The government has taken note. This year President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono tried to put the brakes on these troubling trends by announcing a moratorium on new logging permits. But as Indonesian forests continue to vanish, some experts say a moratorium
Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
After analysis of the industry in the new leadership of the Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) have formed quite a clear view on what you need to change it. The head of Russian Federal Space Agency, Vladimir Popovkin told “Kommersant” on what he sees prospects in his department and what – in the entire Russian space as
