The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) has released a second report in the series called Failure to Act. The first in the series dealt with transportation. Drinking water The ASCE points out that […]
I blogged earlier about Ontario and Quebec protecting a significant proportion of the world’s boreal forests and an agreement between environmental organizations and forest companies also designed to protect forest resources across Canada. According to […]
The world’s third GNSS, after the US GPS and the Russian GLONASS systems, China’s Beidou has become operational and is providing location, timing and navigation data for China and surrounding areas. Currently it relies on […]
Bangladesh is one of the most densely populated countries in the world. In 2005 79% of the population lived in rural areas where the main energy source is biomass. Biomass fuels (firewood, cow dung and […]
The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) has said that Brazil has surpassed the UK as the World’s 6th largest economy. The Brazilian GDP for 2011 is estimated to be $2.52 trillion. The CEBR is […]
An aquaintance of mine lives in northeast Ohio near Lake Erie. Recently he provided an interesting overview of the economics of natural gas production in northeastern Ohio. He has natural gas wells on his property […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), the first national standards for mercury, arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, and cyanide emissions from power plants under the Clean […]
Tomoyuki Taira (member of the House of Representatives) and Yukio Hatoyama (a former prime minister) in an article (Nature 480, 313–314,15 December 2011) recommend that the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant needs to be opened to […]