The extent of Arctic sea ice is one of the most accessible sources of data showing the effect of global climate change. The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) began monitoring Arctic sea ice […]
With 90,029 confirmed registrations, Ontario has reached a new record for the number of incoming undergraduates according to the Ontario Universities’ Application Centre. Enrollment in Ontario has been increasing every year since 2004 and the […]
CERN announced that at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) it had collected 1 fb-1 (inverse femtobarn) or about 70,000 billion proton-proton collisions, six months ahead of schedule. According to Quantum Diaries this means is that […]
I have been going to Australia at least once annually for many years and am aware of the water challenges that the country faces. Some argue that given the available amount of water the world’s […]
Most US states have some form of renewable energy objective. There have been several unsuccessful attempts to enact a national renewable energy or energy-related emissions objective. One of the problems arising from the lack of […]
Last year NV Energy exceeded one GW of renewable energy capacity driven by Nevada’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) which requires that at least 25 percent of the company’s retail energy sales come from renewable energy […]
At the recent GITA ANZ conference in Sydney, Mark Reichardt, President and CEO of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) mentioned in his talk that the OGC’s GeoSMS standard for geotagging SMS or text messages had […]
A survey of Canadian commuters released last week by Statistics Canada reported that nationally 82% of commuters drove to work, 12% took public transit and 6% walked or bicycled. On average getting to work took […]