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Face-to-Face With the Largest, Rarest Primates on Earth
2016-07-10 20:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Face-to-Face With the Largest, Rarest Primates on Earth Deep in the heart of Congo, Virunga National Park is home to the last of the silverbacks. With his machine gun, machete, and green army fatigues, our tour guide is more soldier than scientist. Hes leading us up the steep slopes of Mt. Mikeno, a 14,500-foot-tall dormant volcano in the middle of the African continent, hacking away the dense undergrowth with a 2-foot-long blade. He works quickly and silently, stopping occasionally to make...
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With trees disappearing, Malawi turns to "earth bag" houses
2016-07-06 03:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: At the local brick kiln, a truck laden with logs pulls up and unloads. Soon smoke is billowing, as a new set of bricks bakes inside. Malawi's construction industry relies heavily on bricks - and the wood needed to make them is a major reason the country's indigenous forests are fast disappearing. But an unusual home construction technique - using dirt or sand packed into plastic sacks and stacked - is now being tried out in Rumphi, in the north of the country, as a way to cut back on bricks...
Dark earth could herald a bright future for agriculture and climate
2016-07-06 00:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Revel Stoke Mountaineer: Dark earths benefit to climate is just one of its many exciting possibilities. It also enhances soils so they produce higher yields, helps retain water and prevents erosion. Feeding more than seven billion people with minimal environmental and climate impacts is no small feat. That parts of the world are plagued by obesity while starvation is rampant elsewhere shows part of the problem revolves around distribution and social equity. But agricultural methods pose some of the biggest challenges....
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Earth Observation Specialist Project Manager
2016-07-04 17:05:12| Space-careers.com Jobs RSS
About us Planetek Hellas PH is a Greek company, member of the Planetek Group that since 1994, operates in the field of Satellite Remote Sensing, Spatial Data Infrastructure and Software development for the on board and ground segment space applications. The Company was founded in 2006, is based in AthensGreece, and aims to replicate the successful approach to the market of the Group leader Planetek Italia s.r.l., whose applications and solutions are developed within the most important European programs in the field of space research and integrated systems for the management, analysis and sharing of landrelated information. Planetek Hellas experience conjugates mastering of advanced remote sensing processing, with GIS Commercial OffTheShelf COTS competence and real world application delivery. These applications are usually addressed to public administrations like Central and Local governments, Environmental Agencies, NGOs etc. Planetek Hellas has related activities in ECFP7 funded projects such as ITACA Innovation Technologies and Applications for Coastal Archaeological sites, SAFER Space Applications For Emergency Response, BIOSOS Biodiversity Multisource Monitoring System From Space to Species, GNEXT GMES preoperational security services for supporting external actions, and eENVplus eEnvironmental services for advanced application within INSPIRE. Planetek Hellas has also developed for ESA several systems integrated into ESASSE service support environment service architecture, under the projects NTSS Naval Traffic Statistics for Security and Ozone 3D. Planetek Hellas is also the first Greek company to have ever signed a contract with the European Space Astronomy Centre March 2013 for which its implementing an SDI system. The trust of ESAC on Planetek Hellas was reconfirmed in December 2014, when the company signed a new contract for the development of the Web Interfaces for the Planck mission archive. Planetek Group also participates to the definition and implementation of software for space systems for Earth Observation missions, such as ERS, Envisat, COSMOSkyMED, COSMO Second Generation, PRISMA, Solar Orbiter. Were currently looking for an Earth Observation Specialist Project Manager to significantly contribute in our image analysis and image processing activities. Personal profile Our new colleague will be a serious and reliable person, with excellent analytical and problem solving skills, excellent organizational skills, strong ability to work in team and goal oriented, excellent relational and communicative skill. Usually we choose the people and then consider their skills. There is a business hours but we are flexible because goaloriented. We are informal, reliable and available we love to do new and different things, share efforts and celebrate the results. Skills and experience degree in Rural and Survey Engineering, Forestry, Environment, Geography, Physical Sciences or Geology a good and demonstrated experience, of at least 35 years, in EO data processing and GIS a previous experience in Project Management or Technical Coordination fluency in English and Greek is a mandatory. Preferred competences previous experience in projects financed by international agencies the knowledge of the Italian language will also be an advantage. If you think you have what it takes for this job, please send us your CV together with a letter of motivation both in English and in Word at jobsplanetek.gr quoting job pk2 before 30Jul16. An exciting and dynamic international working environment awaits you!
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The biggest body of warm water on Earth is getting even bigger
2016-07-02 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Super Typhoon Haiyan moves toward the Philippines on Nov. 7, 2013 in the Pacific Ocean. (NOAA via Getty Images) When it comes to fundamental drivers of climate and weather across the Earth, it is hard to think of a region more important than the Indo-Pacific Warm Pool, an enormous area stretching across the Pacific and Indian oceans on both sides of the equator. This is, basically, the biggest body of warm water there is. Indeed, the warm pool, which is fueled by the intense sunlight striking the...
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