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Astrium Purchases Majority Share In Spot Image
Farnborough, UK (SPX) Jul 16, 2008Astrium has announced the purchase of further shares in Spot Image from the French Space Agency. This is a significant deal resulting in Astrium holding 81% of Spot Image and therefore becoming the majority shareholder. As part of Astrium, Infoterra and Spot Image will work together within the Earth Observation Division of Astrium Services. This purchase reaffirms Astrium's commitme ... more NASA Robots Perform Well During Arctic Ice Deployment Testing 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jul 16, 2008Several snowmobiles navigated speedily over arctic ice and snow in Alaska's outback in late June. This scene might seem ordinary except that the recently unveiled snowmobiles are unmanned, autonomous, toy-size robots called SnoMotes - the first prototype network of their kind envisioned to rove treacherous areas of the Arctic and Antarctic capturing more accurate measurements that will help scie ... more ESA Launches Program In Support Of Earth Observation Science 
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 16, 2008Since the advent of Earth observation from space, satellite missions have become central to monitoring and learning about how the Earth works, resulting in significant progress in a broad range of scientific areas. In the mid-1990s, ESA set up its Living Planet Programme and established a new approach to satellite observations for Earth science by working in close cooperation with the scie ... more GeoEarthScope NorCal LiDAR Topography Data Available 
LaJolla, CA (SPX) Jul 17, 2008All data acquired by the GeoEarthScope Northern California Airborne LiDAR project are now available for download to researchers, engineers, planners, students, and others via the GEON portal at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego. The GeoEarthScope Northern California LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) project acquired high resolution topography data starting in ... more U.N. to do global deforestation survey 
Rome (UPI) Jul 16, 2008 A global survey to assess deforestation will be conducted by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and its partners, the U.N. organization in Rome said. Concern has grown in recent years about deforestation, loss of carbon stored in forests and the role of forests in climate change, increasing interest in forest monitoring and tracking emissions created by deforestation, the United ... more |
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Taipei (AFP) July 16, 2008Storm Kalmaegi has gained momentum as it approaches Taiwan, threatening the island's east, the Central Weather Bureau said Wednesday. The edge of the storm may hit eastern Taiwan and unleash downpours in the east and north, an official at the bureau said. "Ships sailing on the Bashih Channel and waters east of Taiwan must heighten their vigilance," the official said. The storm was 37 ... more Mitigating Climate Change By Improving Forest Management In The Tropics 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 17, 2008A key aspect of the international climate change agreement slated to replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2012 focuses on reducing carbon emissions due to deforestation and degradation (REDD). But most REDD discussions focus on tropical deforestation while ignoring the potential carbon savings that could be realized from reduced forest degradation. In a new article published this week in the open ... more Brazil agribusiness wants looser ties to China, India in WTO talks 
Brasilia (AFP) July 16, 2008Brazil's powerful agribusiness sector on Wednesday called for the country to step away from an alliance with China and India in WTO talks next week to concentrate on securing immediate farm trade deals. "The most productive sector in the Brazilian economy must not be held back by the drive to secure a greater trade opening for less competitive sectors," the Permanent Forum for Agricultural ... more Australia to set up carbon trading scheme by 2010 
Sydney (AFP) July 16, 2008The Australian government announced plans Wednesday for a carbon emissions trading scheme by 2010 that it described as the biggest economic reform for a generation. But the plan -- aimed at reducing the greenhouse gas pollution blamed for global warming -- immediately came under fire from economists and green groups who said it shied away from tough decisions needed to tackle the problem. ... more Analysis: More Bush library sleaze charges 
Washington (UPI) Jul 15, 2008 A GOP lobbyist and fundraiser with close ties to the White House has quit a Homeland Security Department advisory committee following allegations of influence peddling and quid pro quo donations to the Bush presidential library. Department spokeswoman Laura Keehner confirmed to United Press International that Stephen Payne was asked to resign after being surreptitiously videotaped by a ... more |
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Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jul 17, 2008Russia has overtaken Niger to become the world's fourth largest uranium producer, after Canada, Australia, and Kazakhstan. Russia received its new rating in 2007, when it produced 3,527 tons of uranium. It has ambitious plans to mover even further up the league, based on promising deposits in Eastern Siberia and other regions, and opportunities for mutually advantageous cooperation with ... more The Current Biofuel Market In India 
Dublin, Ireland (SPX) Jul 17, 2008The 'Indian Biofuel Industry' report analyzes the current biofuel market in India. It focuses on the causes for the growing demand of biofuels, the manufacturing technologies for the production of biofuels and government regulations. This report also enumerates the opportunities and challenges faced by the biofuel industry in India along with the current trends, addressing the client needs ... more OECD issues report critical of biofuels, favours moratorium 
Paris (AFP) July 16, 2008The OECD favours a moratorium on expanding biofuel production, a senior official with the Paris-based body said on Wednesday following the release of a report critical of vegetable-based fuels. "It would make a lot of sense to have a moratorium," Stefan Tangermann, head of agriculture and trade analysis at the OECD told AFP. "All these programmes should be reconsidered because we found ... more New French giant GDF Suez interested in British nuclear sites 
Paris (AFP) July 16, 2008Newly formed global energy giant GDF Suez of France is interested in nuclear power operator British Energy but only if the company is split up and sold off site by site. "If the plan remains to sell British Energy in one go, then it will be sold without us," said GDF Suez head Gerard Mestrallet in an interview with Les Echos daily to appear Thursday. To acquire the company in a bloc ... more Analysis: Nuclear revival without Germany 
Berlin (UPI) Jul 16, 2008 Global warming and rising energy prices have sparked a worldwide renaissance of nuclear energy -- but not in Germany, where the grand coalition government is still bickering over the planned phase-out of nuclear power by 2021. The United States, China, India, Russia, France, Canada, Britain, Finland, Sweden -- the list of countries aiming to build new nuclear power plants or at least ... more
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