Monday, December 26th, 2011
The Earth wobbles. Like a spinning top touched in mid-spin, its rotational axis fluctuates in relation to space. This is partly caused by gravitation from the sun and the moon. At the same time, the Earth's rotational...
Monday, December 26th, 2011
Insufficient human resources was a major challenge for Viet Nam in responding to climate change, said head of the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry's Personnel and Organisation Department Ta Dinh Thi. Thi said that although Viet Nam launched...
Monday, December 26th, 2011
The World Bank observed that power shortages has adversely affected the economic and commercial activities in Pakistan, as estimated production loss to the economy is two per cent of the GDP per annum or might be more...
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
The paper presents the on-going project on 3D cadastre modelling in Russia. The aim of this
project is to provide guidance in the development of a prototype and to create favourable legal
and institutional conditions...
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
Seasonally frozen ground across the former Soviet Republic extended 31.9 cm shallower in winter of 2000 than in the 1930s. That’s according to a comprehensive assessment of soil thermal conditions in the Eurasian high latitudes, which also found that the...
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
Japanese mobile carrier KDDI has announced that it will establish a data center in Sendai, one of the areas hit the hardest by the earthquake and tsunami this past March. The center will be for managing mobile customer data, and will...
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
"Gloucester Coal has entered into a merger proposal deed with Yanzhou Coal Mining Company Limited and its wholly owned Australian subsidiary, Yancoal Australia Limited, following an approach from Yanzhou," Gloucester Coal said on Friday. Yanzhou Coal Mining, China's...
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
Consider this: If humans had been able to go into orbit around the Earth 100 years ago, they could have seen the light from 16 concentrations of a million or more people. Today, as the crews of...
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
The majority of us live in cities, and the percentage is growing. Municipal leaders who run the complex network of diverse people, expected services and aging infrastructure are on a constant search for more efficient ways to...
