Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
The four clean projects will produce electricity using sawmill and manufacturing debris, roadside debris, logging slash, sort yard debris and biomass derived from standing timber. The projects have been selected under the second phase of the Bioenergy Call for Power, a program designed to facilitate the acquisition of clean, renewable and cost-effective energy, the company
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
The federal government has announced a $53 million investment to help 17 new clean technology projects from across the country to reach the stage of commercialization. The announcement was made today by Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, and Sustainable Development Technology Canada’s (SDTC) President and CEO Vicky Sharpe.
Monday, August 1st, 2011
It’s paint-by-numbers for neuroscientists. At the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, researchers have devised a faster way of computing the neural connections that make up the brain. Mapping out this intricate web previously depended on the human eye as no computer was powerful enough to handle the brain’s complex network of 70
Monday, August 1st, 2011
The Institute possesses know-how and expertise to passive and active microwave and contributes significantly to the development and improvement of ground-based, airborne and satellite sensors. His research focuses on the conceptualization and development of new microwave techniques and systems and the associated sensor-specific applications. The tasks of the Institute to implement long-term research programs is in the
Friday, July 29th, 2011
The International Hydrological Programme of UNESCO and the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) jointly organized the Symposium on “Water Quality: Current Trends and Expected Climate Change Impacts” during the XXV IUGG General Assembly “Earth on the Edge: Science for a Sustainable Planet” in Melbourne, Australia, on 4-5 July. The objective of the Symposium was to
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
The role of a facilitator is to provide technical guidance and assist in the organisation of the data specification activities that take place in one of the Thematic Working Groups, while the editor prepares the UML schema and documents the data specifications according to the agreed pre-defined format. More information on the terms of reference
Friday, July 22nd, 2011
With approximately 600 articles in 4 volumes, Biomes and Ecosystems: An Encyclopedia is a comprehensive review of key biological and geographic classifications tied to the high-school and college curriculum. The reference work will cover the broad scope of biomes and ecosystems around the world, from puddles on the street to coral reefs in Australia to rain forests
Friday, July 15th, 2011
The methodology was developed by the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation (FAS) and the World Bank’s BioCarbon Fund and can be used to estimate the greenhouse gas emissions from areas where unplanned deforestation is taking place and to quantify the emission reductions that occur when such deforestation is curbed. The new methodology provides a way to address simultaneously both frontier and mosaic deforestation,
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Project idea on developing methods for assessing land degradation in Thailand started after the disaster caused by landslides and followed by flash floods which destroyed lot of properties including loss of human lives in various places of Thailand in 2001.The heavy rains of 11 August 2001 caused landslides and flooding in the lowlands. Many trees
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
The project DEMOCHANGE is co-funded by the “Alpine Space Programme”, the EU transnational co-operation programme for the Alps. The Alpine Space “DEMOCHANGE” project’s aim is to better understand the past, current and future regional and spatial impacts of demographic change specifically within the mountain regions. Therefore, it is allocated to the programmes priority “Competitiveness and Attractiveness”,
