Photos tell many stories.
Recent meetings of Russian President Vladimir Putin with African leaders and European/UN leaders tell a shifting of strategic balance in international politics. (more…)
Wirtschaftswissenschaftler der Universität Tübingen untersuchen 300 europäische Regionen um 1900 auf einen Zusammenhang zwischen landwirtschaftlichen Betriebsgrößen und Bildungsniveau
Die Einkommensunterschiede zwischen dem reicheren Nord- und ärmeren Süditalien sind groß; ähnliche regionale Unterschiede sind zum Beispiel auch innerhalb Russlands oder Spaniens zu beobachten. Innerhalb Deutschlands bestehen ebenfalls regionale Ungleichheiten – davon zeugt auch der Länderstrukturausgleich. (more…)
UA Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research scientists participated in an expedition that revealed its age: nearly 1,100 years.
A Bosnian pine living in the highlands of Greece has been shown to be more than 1,075 years, making it the oldest known living tree in Europe. (more…)
Based in Nice, France, IBM’s fourth Bluemix Garage will help transform how apps are built with IBM Cloud
ARMONK, N.Y. and NICE, FR – 22 Mar 2016: IBM today announced the opening of a Bluemix Garage in Nice, France to help European organizations of all sizes and industries accelerate the development and design of next-generation apps on IBM Cloud. (more…)
A new study links climate change to the decline of bumblebee species in North America and Europe.
The study, published in the journal Science, found that bumblebee ranges are shrinking in the south and the insects are not moving north. In addition, some species are moving to higher elevations on both continents. (more…)
Bird populations across Europe have experienced sharp declines over the past 30 years, with the majority of losses from the most common species, say researchers from the University of Exeter, the RSPB and the Pan-European Common Bird Monitoring Scheme (PECBMS) in a new study. However numbers of some less common birds have risen.
The study, published in the journal Ecology Letters, reveals a decrease of 421 million individual birds over 30 years. Around 90 percent of these losses were from the 36 most common and widespread species, including house sparrows, skylarks, grey partridges and starlings, highlighting the need for greater efforts to halt the continent-wide declines of our most familiar countryside birds. (more…)
The first of two NASA Electra radios that will fly aboard the European Space Agency’s next mission to Mars has been delivered for installation onto the ESA ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).
The TGO is being assembled at Thales Alenia Space, in Cannes, France, for a 2016 launch opportunity. It will study the Martian atmosphere for the presence of methane and other gases that may be present in small concentrations. It will also deploy the ESA Schiaparelli Mars landing demonstration craft and provide communications support for ESA ExoMars Rover and a Russian Lander planned for launch in 2018. (more…)
Britain’s impending withdrawal from Afghanistan and France’s recent dispatch of troops to the troubled Central African Republic are but the latest indicators of a long-standing pattern.
Since 1945 most British and French overseas security operations have taken place in places with current or past empire connections. Most of these actions occurred in the context of the contested end of imperial rule or decolonisation. Some were extraordinarily violent; others, far less so. (more…)
