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Google launches 'Street View' charm offensiveHanover, Germany (AFP) March 2, 2010 US Internet giant Google launched on Tuesday a charm offensive for its "Street View" navigation service, aiming to soothe the privacy doubts of a sceptical German public. Attending the CeBIT high-tech fair, the world's biggest, for the first time, Google showcased three of their "Street View" cars - sleek, black Opels with eight mounted cameras to take pictures of streets, buildings and cities. The software, based on photographs which create 3-D imagery, allows surfers to "walk" through the str ... read more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Feb 26, 2010The European Investment Bank has an annual lending portfolio of around 75 billion euros, operating globally in more than 130 countries. The Bank has been increasingly mainstreaming environmental considerations into its lending portfolio, boosting the need to monitor the impact of the projects it funds. As its environmental commitments have increased, so too has the demand for geospatial informat ... more  
Paris (AFP) Feb 25, 2010An iceberg the size of Luxembourg knocked loose from the Antarctic continent earlier this month could disrupt the ocean currents driving weather patterns around the globe, researchers said Thursday. While the impact would not be felt for decades or longer, a slowdown in the production of colder, dense water could result in less temperate winters in the north Atlantic, they said. The 2550 ... more  
Hanoi (AFP) Feb 26, 2010Water levels in the northern Mekong River are at record-low levels, posing a threat to water supply, navigation and irrigation along a stretch of water that is home to millions, a regional official said. Northern Thailand, northern Laos and southern China have all been affected, Jeremy Bird, chief executive officer of the Mekong River Commission (MRC) secretariat, told AFP. "The flows ar ... more |
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Rapid Response Science Missions Assess Potential For Another Major Haiti EarthquakeAustin TX (SPX) Feb 25, 2010 To help assess the potential threat of more large earthquakes in Haiti and nearby areas, scientists at The University of Texas at Austin's Institute for Geophysics are co-leading three expeditions to the country with colleagues from Purdue University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, the U.S. Geological Survey and five other institutions. Rapid response missions can be critical for assessing future risks because a fault can continue to displace the ground for weeks and months after a large earthq ... read more |
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