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A recent report by UNEP and GRID Arendal, Protecting Arctic Biodiversity, highlights the four major areas relating the Arctic region and biodiversity that need strengthening and further funding. The primary arising issue is climate change and its effect on wildlife and ecosystems.
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Henk Brandon of Suriname Conservation Foundation introduced both films on Thursday morning, Feb. 11, 2016. Each school was presented with a copy of an SCF documentary for their school library. Students also won door prizes for answering questions during the presentation.
Joint meeting of the NJBIA Environment and Energy Policy Committees with Sen. Bob Smith, chairman of the Senate Environment and Energy Committee.
Specialized crevice environments allow a variety of plants to take root. Castlewood Canyon State Park
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director General welcomes HE Mr. DONG Baotong, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment and the Administrator of the National Nuclear Safety Administration of China, and his delegation upon their arrival to the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 20 March 2023.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Delegation:
Mr DONG Baotong, Vice Minister/Administrator, Ministry of Ecology and Environment(MEE), National Nuclear Safety Administration(NNSA)
Mr HUANG Mingquan, Vice Minister/Administrator, Ministry of Ecology and Environment(MEE), National Nuclear Safety Administration(NNSA)
Mr HAO Xiaofeng, Deputy Director General, Department of Nuclear Power Safety Regulation, MEE/NNSA
Mr XU Huidong, Deputy Director General, Department of International Cooperation, MEE/NNSA
Mr LI Song, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of China
Ms XIAO Lili, First Secretary, Permanent Mission of China (interpreter)
IAEA:
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Lydie Evrard, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety and Security
Mark Bassett, Special Assistant to the DG for Nuclear Safety and Security and Safeguards
Diego Candano Laris, Senior Advisor to the Director-General
Ewelina Hilger, IAEA Special Advisor to the Director-General
Woodworks and Foam teamed up to create a video studio featuring wooden slatwalls, Foam3Dâ„¢ hearts, and dimensional cubes with printed decals.
Informal meeting of transport and environment ministers on 29 October 2018 - Press conference. Picturing Federal Minister Norbert Hofer (right) and EU Commissioner Violeta Bulc (left). Copyright BKA/Michael Gruber
The Chesapeake Executive Council meets at the Brock Environmental Center in Virginia Beach, Va., on Oct. 1, 2021. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam served as chair, with Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Diana Esher of the Environmental Protection Agency and Chesapeake Bay Commission Chair David Bulova gave remarks and signed a climate directive. Council members took a boat on the Lynnhaven River to hear speakers Imani Black of Minorities in Aquaculture speak, as well as Chris Moore and Andrew Button of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Back on land, students from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's environmental education programs gave instruction to the council on climate change and environmental issues impacting the Bay. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Panther Lick Creek flows past the property of Nancy Baker in Bradford County, Pa., on March 13, 2017. Baker is a forester, owner of a 163-acre forested property, and leader of Women and Their Woods. The program helps women forest owners—some who have outlived their husbands—learn how to manage their woods. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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The Chesapeake Executive Council meets at the Brock Environmental Center in Virginia Beach, Va., on Oct. 1, 2021. Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam served as chair, with Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Diana Esher of the Environmental Protection Agency and Chesapeake Bay Commission Chair David Bulova gave remarks and signed a climate directive. Council members took a boat on the Lynnhaven River to hear speakers Imani Black of Minorities in Aquaculture speak, as well as Chris Moore and Andrew Button of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Back on land, students from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's environmental education programs gave instruction to the council on climate change and environmental issues impacting the Bay. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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An illustration describing in short what the last italian government act would cause all over the yet-degraded coastal lines if accepted by the Parliament
Environmental professionals explore Caledon State Park in King George, Va., on Oct. 14, 2017. The field trip was organized by HerChesapeake, a professional association for women who work to restore the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. (Photo by Joan Smedinghoff/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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On 21 February 2017, ILRI's Institute Management Committee commissioned a research partnership- between the Mazingira Centre and Kenya Biogas program- that will assess the environmental, agronomic and productivity of bioslurry as a source of fertilizer for crops in smallholder systems (photo credti: ILRI/Dorine Odongo)
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
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Field mission to assess mercury contamination at the Butuzi artisanal gold mining site in South Kivu carried out in March 2016. Assessment findings are used to provide technical advice on reducing mercury pollution and related occupational and environmental impacts within a pilot project implemented by Partnership Africa Canada (PAC) aiming to establish conflict-free and legal supply chains for artisanal gold in eastern DRC. The UN peacekeeping in DRC (MONUSCO) is also providing in-kind logistical support to this project.
2016 © Hassan Partow/UN Environment
For further information go to www.unep.org/disastersandconflicts/
Historic Environment Record for H BUILDING, Malvern, UK
The building, having military purposes and designated locally as H building, sits on a former Government Research site in Malvern, Worcestershire at Grid Ref SO 786 447. This site was the home of the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE) from 1946. It has been owned by QinetiQ since 2001 and is in the process (October 2017 to February 2018) of being sold for redevelopment.
This unique building has at its heart a ‘Rotor’ bunker with attached buildings to house radar screens and operators as well as plant such as emergency generators. Twenty nine Rotor operational underground bunkers were built in great urgency around Britain to modernise the national air defence network, following the Soviet nuclear test in 1949. Two factors make H building’s construction and purpose unique; this prototype is the only Rotor bunker built above ground and it was the home to National Air Defence government research for 30 years.This example of a ROTOR bunker is unique instead of being buried, it was built above ground to save time and expense, as it was not required to be below ground for its research purpose.
H Building was the prototype version of the Rotor project R4 Sector Operations Centre air defence bunkers. Construction began in August 1952 with great urgency - work went on 24 hours a day under arc lights. The main bunker is constructed from cross bonded engineering bricks to
form walls more than 2 feet thick in a rectangle approximately 65ft x 50ft. The two internal floors are suspended from the ceiling. The original surrounding buildings comprise, two radar control and operator rooms, offices and machine plant.
The building was in generally good order and complete. The internal layout of the bunker remains as originally designed. The internal surfaces and services have been maintained and modernised over the 55 years since its construction (Figure 3). The first floor has been closed over.
There are some later external building additions around the periphery to provide additional accommodation.
In parts of the building the suspended floor remains, with 1950s vintage fittings beneath such as patch panels and ventilation ducts.
The building has been empty since the Defence Science & Technology Laboratories [Dstl] moved out in October 2008
As lead for radar research, RRE was responsible for the design of both the replacement radars for the Chain Home radars and the command and control systems for UK National Air Defence.
Project Rotor was based around the Type 80 radar and Type 13 height finder. The first prototype type 80 was built at Malvern in 1953 code named Green Garlic. Live radar feeds against aircraft sorties, were fed into the building to carry out trials of new methods plotting and reporting air activity
A major upgrade of the UK radar network was planned in the late 1950s – Project ‘Linesman’ (military) / ‘Mediator’ (civil) – based around Type 84 / 85 primary radars and the HF200 height finder. A prototype type 85 radar (Blue Yeoman) was built adjacent to H Building in 1959. live radar returns were piped into H Building.
Subsequently a scheme to combine the military and civil radar networks was proposed. The building supported the research for the fully computerised air defence scheme known as Linesman, developed in the 1960s, and a more integrated and flexible system (United Kingdom Air Defence Ground Environment or UKADGE) in the 1970s.
The building was then used for various research purposes until the government relinquished the main site to QinetiQ in 2001. Government scientists continued to use the building until 2008. Throughout its life access was strictly controlled by a dedicated pass sytem.
Notable civil spin-offs from the research in this building include the invention of touch screens and the whole UK Civil Air Traffic Control system which set the standard for Europe.
Chronology
1952 - Construction work is begun. The layout of the bunker area duplicates the underground version built at RAF Bawburgh.
1953 - Construction work is largely completed.
1954 - The building is equipped and ready for experiments.
1956-1958 - Addition of 2nd storey to offices
1957-1960 - Experiments of automatic tracking, novel plot projection systems and data management and communications systems tested.
1960-1970 - Project Linesman mediator experiments carried out including a novel display technique known as a Touch screen ( A World First)
TOUCHSCREEN
A team led by Eric Johnson in H building at Malvern. RRE Tech Note 721 states: This device, the Touch Sensitive Electronic Data Display, or more shortly the ‘Touch Display’, appears to have the potential to provide a very efficient coupling between man and machine. (E A Johnson 1966). See also patent GB 1172222.
Information From Hugh Williams/mraths
1980-1990 - During this period experiments are moved to another building and H building is underused.
1990-1993 - The building was re-purposed and the bunker (room H57) had the first floor closed over to add extra floor area.
2008- The bunker was used until late 2008 for classified research / Joint intelligence centre
2019 - Visual Recording of the buildings interior by MRATHS. Be means of a LIDAR scan and photographs being taken. The exterior was mapped with a drone to allow a 3D Image of the building to be created via Photogrammetry. This was created in Autodesk Photo Recap.
2020 - Building demolished as part of the redevelopment of the site.
Information sourced from MRATHS
Monday April 30, 2018. Protestors from Global Justice Now demonstrate outside the Home Office in London demanding an end to the Hostile Environment policy, ahead of parliamentary debate on the Windrush scandal. Photo: David Mirzoeff/Global Justice Now
'ABYCTO' is an installation designed and fabricated at FIU that results from the collaboration between students and faculty members in architecture and music.
Welcome to the Hort Park. The Hort Park is located in Singapore and it was just opened very recently.
The wonders of the nature captivates a child, while we grown ups destroy the nature. Someday, I fear, nature may turn away from us.
(c) All rights reserved: Ashraful Hadi
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey
River Corps staff members visit RiverSmart homes in Washington, D.C., on April 13, 2017. The River Corps makes home inspections to RiverSmart homes to ensure stormwater practices like trees and rain barrels are properly installed and maintained. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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The Cartagena protocol on biosafety, a supplement to the convention on biological diversity, has strong support in Africa, with a majority of the countries as signatories. In addition, several countries have, in the past, rejected aid (especially unmilled grains) in food imports with concerns for national biosafety. South Africa is so far the only country that is seeing wide-spread use of genetically modified crops.
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This photo has been graciously provided to be used in the GRID-Arendal resources library by: Hugo Ahlenius
Japanese stilt grass, an invasive species, grows at Dutch Gap Conservation Area in Chesterfield County, Va., on Aug. 12, 2019. The area protects 810 acres of woods, wetlands and wildlife bordering the James River, and in 2017 a boardwalk for hiking and viewing, as well as a paddle craft launch were installed. The Audubon Society names Dutch Gap one of the top birding sites in Virginia. Home to a large heron rookery, it attracts bald eagles and other hard-to-find species. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Monday April 30, 2018. Protestors from Global Justice Now demonstrate outside the Home Office in London demanding an end to the Hostile Environment policy, ahead of parliamentary debate on the Windrush scandal. Photo: David Mirzoeff/Global Justice Now
Quick-Look Hill-shaded Colour Relief Image of 2014 2m LIDAR Composite Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
Data supplied by Environment Agency under the Open Government License agreement. For details please go to: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/v...
For full raster dataset go to: environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey