Astrosat shows RAPID advances in the jungles of Malaysia
Glasgow, UK (SPX) Mar 23, 2016 -
Scottish space science and management company Astrosat has been invited to demonstrate the effectiveness of its revolutionary Recovery and Protection in Disaster (RAPID) system to the Malaysian government in field conditions.
RAPID is a technology solution designed to aggregate, manage, analyse and share critical infrastructure data designed to be a modular system of data layers. This maxi ...
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Philippine mountain fire forces hundreds to flee
Manila (AFP) March 27, 2016 -
A raging fire on the Philippines highest mountain forced hundreds of people to flee from the peak by foot, officials said Sunday.
Firefighters dug ditches that were seven-feet (two metres) deep in their battle to contain the blaze, which began Saturday afternoon and was ongoing 24 hours later, to stop it from spreading on the tourist hotspot of Mount Apo.
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Japan court orders dolphin-hunt town to pay damages to Australian
Tokyo (AFP) March 25, 2016 -
An anti-dolphin hunting activist is being paid damages by a Japanese town made notorious by the Oscar-winning film "The Cove," after it refused to let her into its aquarium.
Sarah Lucas, CEO of Australia for Dolphins, two years ago tried to enter a whaling museum in Taiji which keeps whales and dolphins, but was rejected after museum officials said those opposed to whaling cannot enter, news ...
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Research on near-earth space to start with first launch from Vostochny
Vostochny, Russia (Sputnik) Mar 25, 2016 -
Aist 2D will become the first satellite to reach orbit from the Vostochny Space Launch Center, jump starting a series of research projects on near-Earth space and the way it impacts materials used in spacecraft, the press service of the Samara State Aerospace University said in a statement released on Tuesday, March 15.
"Scientists from the Samara State Aerospace University will launch an ...
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The past, present and future of African dust
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 25, 2016 -
So much dust is scattered across the planet by the winds of the Sahara that it alters the climate. However, the emission and transport of this dust, which can reach the poles, fluctuate considerably. Although many hypotheses have been put forward to explain this phenomenon, no unambiguous relationship between this dust and the climate had been established until now.
According to research c ...
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NASA Gets Down to Earth with Globe-Spanning Campaigns
Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 25, 2016 -
NASA is sending scientists around the world in 2016 - from the edge of the Greenland ice sheet to the coral reefs of the South Pacific - to delve into challenging questions about how our planet is changing and what impacts humans are having on it.
While Earth science field experiments are nothing new for NASA, the next six months will be a particularly active period with eight major new ca ...
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Poland approves logging Europe's last primeval forest
Warsaw (AFP) March 25, 2016 -
Poland on Friday gave the go ahead for large-scale logging in the Bialowieza forest intended to combat a spruce bark beetle infestation, despite scientists, ecologists and the EU protesting the move in Europe's last primeval woodland.
"We're acting to curb the degradation of important habitats, to curb the disappearance and migration of important species from this site," Jan Szyszko, environ ...
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