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Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Climate 4 Classrooms
Friday, 8 January 2010
Thursday, 7 January 2010
Tuesday, 5 January 2010
Defra, UK - Food and Farming - Food - Strategy
Food 2030, the Government’s new food strategy, is the first of its kind in over 50 years. In it we set out our vision of what we want the food system to look like in 2030, and how we can get there.
January 2010: Hilary Benn launches Food 2030. Government has published a number of documents:
Monday, 4 January 2010
iGuess | Introducing GIS Use in Education in Several Subjects
iGuess is a EU-funded project that aims at developing a teacher training course to promote GIS and instruct teachers in using it. Using GIS in class or in an extracurricular way will produce new, innovative approaches of teaching
iGuess | Introducing GIS Use in Education in Several Subjects
Friday, 1 January 2010
Live Ships Map - AIS - Vessel Traffic and Positions
- Study of marine telecommunications in respect of efficiency and propagation parameters
- Simulation of vessel movements in order to contribute to the safety of navigation and to cope with critical incidents
- Interactive information systems design
- Design of databases providing real-time information
- Statistical processing of ports traffic with applications in operational research
- Design of models for the spotting of the origin of a pollution
- Design of efficient algorithms for sea path evaluation and for determining the estimated time of ship arrivals
- Correlation of the collected information with weather data
- Cooperation with Institutes dedicated in the protection of the environment
It provides free real-time information to the public, about ship movements and ports, mainly across the coast-lines of Europe and N.America.
Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Monday, 28 December 2009
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Why Britain faces a bleak future of food shortages
Britain faces a 'perfect storm' of water shortage and lack of food, says the government's chief scientist, and climate change and crop and animal diseases will add to future woes. Science is now striving to find solutions
Why Britain faces a bleak future of food shortages | Science | The Observer
Monday, 14 December 2009
Weather satellite images
Sat24.com provides realtime satellite images. The images provide an excellent view on the clouds in the sky and an indication of the meteo weather over the European continent.
The website provides for a specific zoom for countries and regions like France , Germany , Netherlands , Spain , Sweden and Scandinavia, the UK , Italia , Greece , etc.
Sunday, 13 December 2009
1st World Ranking of Clean Energy Technology (CET) Sales — CET to Become 3rd Largest Global Sales Sector by 2020 : CleanTechnica
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) just released a comprehensive global report, and the first country by country ranking, of clean energy technology sales.
The clean energy sector is on the verge of becoming the third largest sector in the world now. The report — Clean Economy, Living Planet - Building Strong Clean Energy Technology Industries — finds that Denmark is currently the leading country in clean energy sales (relative to GDP), Brazil is second and Germany is third (the top three in absolute terms are Germany, the US and Japan).
Interactive: Voices from the edge of climate change
Thousands of negotiators, politicians and activists are discussing the climate change deal in Copenhagen this week - but what about those already at the sharp end? Click on the individuals to read their stories with stunning images
Interactive: Voices from the edge of climate change | Environment | guardian.co.uk
China struggles to treat youth net addicts
After Li Congcong’s parents stopped him going to an internet café, the 17-year-old poured pesticide into some cabbage soup. His mother and father were dead within hours after lunch. Mr Li will be more than 30 when he is released from prison.
His story is just one of 30 chilling tales told in Who Took Our Children?, a documentary that recently started showing in Jiyuan, Mr Li’s hometown in the central Chinese province of Henan.
FT.com / China / Society & People - China struggles to treat youth net addicts
Why Britain faces a bleak future of food shortages | Science | The Observer
Britain faces a 'perfect storm' of water shortage and lack of food, says the government's chief scientist, and climate change and crop and animal diseases will add to future woes. Science is now striving to find solutions
Why Britain faces a bleak future of food shortages | Science | The Observer
Thursday, 10 December 2009
'Rare earth'
Could a shortage of mud and minerals, essential to low carbon technologies, curtail the world's plans for a green future?The key to a low carbon future is not negotiations in Copenhagen but mud and minerals in China. All low carbon technologies, from wind turbines to electric cars and low energy lightbulbs, use elements known as 'rare earths'. And 95 per cent of these are found in China. Earlier this year the Chinese decided to restrict export of these essential metals and minerals and now a shortage is predicted which could effect the development of green technologies.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/newsnight/paulmason/2009/11/rare_earth_the_new_great_game.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8097845.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/8097931.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8366694.stm
'Rare earth' shortage threatens green revolution - Channel 4 News
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