WEF: Tag Cloud for 25-01-2007

Here is the second part of our World Economic Forum 2007 Tag Clouds from documents (224) published on 25-January-2007…

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WEF: Tag Cloud for 24-01-2007

We went through all documents (143) about the World Economic Forum 2007 published on 24-January-2007 and created this Tag cloud with the top 100 key words. This is the first of a series of tag clouds (one for each day and one overall) we are currently preparing…

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Global Warming: 2007 expected to be hottest year on record

Climate-change experts at the UK Met Office predict that 2007 is likely to be the warmest year on record globally, hotter than the current record set in 1998. The forecast points to the El Niño already established in the Pacific, that is expected to persist through the first months of 2007. Together with global warming due to fossil fuels this provides a high potential for record temperatures during 2007…

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Live on Camera: Space Debris breaks up in the Sky

Reporters from Live-TV station “Fox 31″ were quite surprised yesterday evening when one of their news choppers managed to capture the breaking up of space debris in the atmosphere. The “light show” that looked like meteorites - as NORAD has confirmed - was caused by the re-entry of a spent Russian science rocket. More information and a video at the…

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Photograpy: Jorn Olsen’s cloud pictures

As a short continuation from our “cloud spotting” story we wanted to point you to Jorn Olsen’s impressive photos of so called “Mammatus clouds”…

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UK: (Small) Tornado hits North London

While there are about 50 small Tornadoes reported on land in the UK each year - the most of all countries in Europe - this one due to the damages created is quite unusual. Within less then a minute that the tornado lasted it severely damaged more then 100 houses and injured a series of [...]

Africa: The size of a continent

Many identify Africa with less-developed countries, disease and war ridden…
…but what almost all forget is the sheer size of that continent that will never allow one-size-fits all approaches. The map below provides a better understanding of the size by overlaying it with some of the largest countries in the world and whole continents…

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Clean Energy: Solar Systems is building world biggest solar power station

Australian company Solar Systems today announced that it is going to build the biggest and most efficient solar photovoltaic power station in the world in north-west Victoria, Australia.
The power station is estimated to provide 154 MW into the national electricity grid - enough to meet the annual consumption of over 45,000 homes.
Australian Treasurer Peter [...]

UN: 24-October-2006 United Nations day

Today is United Nations day and it is the last for Kofi Annan. Let’s see what the next 365 days will bring for this planet…

…For the tenth and last time as Secretary-General, I offer friends and colleagues around the world my best wishes on United Nations Day. I have spent almost my whole [...]

OLPC: Negroponte getting USD100 laptop ready for delivery

Nicholas Negroponte’s OLPC project is taking up speed with selected manufacturer Quanta Computer now having started the test production of the low-cost laptop intended for students and children in developing countries. Initial test run outputs should be available next month. Quanta has earlier selected its new plant in Changshu, China to produce the computer [...]