Friday, March 25th, 2011
Marine scientists from five research agencies have pooled their skills and resources to compile a directory of life on Australia’s continental shelf. They examined the shelf seascape during a three-year program of the Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities (CERF) Marine Biodiversity Hub....
Friday, March 25th, 2011
A national standard will be drafted that limits pollutant discharge into the sea as part of a campaign to protect the fragile maritime environment, a top administrator said. Local regulations in coastal provinces are the only code of...
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
An earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale followed by 10-meter high tsunami in Japan, last week managed to remove the perception of the international community since the beginning of this year's protest focused on the disaster...
Monday, March 21st, 2011
This type of simulation is quite rare. Only researchers from NOAA (U.S. Agency study of the ocean and atmosphere) have carried out such simulations in the days that followed the tsunami.In Europe, UCL is one of the...
Monday, March 21st, 2011
A shrill alarm goes off, a giant screen comes to life and an earthquake strikes—measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale in the Pacific islands of Vanuatu. At the Tsunami Early Warning Centre of the Indian National Centre...
Monday, March 21st, 2011
National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Caraga will launch its Regional Geographic Information System Center (RGISC) on March 22. The RGISC promotes Geographic Information System (GIS) as a tool for effective planning, decision-making, policy formulation, investment programming and...
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
Stakeholders and landowners present at the launch of the Fiji National REDD-plus policy were in a collective agreement that significant progress had been made towards the establishment of a national MRV (measuring, reporting, and verification) system. The two...
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) has develop an environmental resource information data base for each district as environmental profile by using its expertise knowledge on remote sensing and spatial data bases. The data base will allow identifying spatial...
Sunday, March 20th, 2011
The Prime Minister today said a new government department could be set up to deal with rebuilding Christchurch. John Key said the Government was going to play a leading role because no city council in New Zealand had...
