The Wall Street Journal | By: Dave Michaels | September 20, 2017: The top U.S. markets regulator disclosed Wednesday that hackers penetrated its electronic system for storing public-company filings last year and may have traded on the information. The Securities and Exchange Commission’s chairman, Jay Clayton, revealed the breach in Read more…
Reuters | By: Joseph Menn | September 21, 2017: An international group of cryptography experts has forced the U.S. National Security Agency to back down over two data encryption techniques it wanted set as global industry standards, reflecting deep mistrust among close U.S. allies. In interviews and emails seen by Read more…
Reuters | By: Eric Auchard | September 20, 2017: Hackers likely linked to Iran’s government are behind attacks on Saudi and other Western aerospace and petrochemical firms, signaling a rise in Iranian cyber-spying prowess, U.S. security firm FireEye Inc. said Wednesday. A FireEye report dubbed the new hackers group APT33 Read more…
FinCEN | By: Steve Hudak | September 20, 2017: The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today issued an advisory to alert financial institutions of widespread public corruption in Venezuela and the methods Venezuelan senior political figures and their associates may use to move and hide proceeds of their corruption. The Read more…
Lexology | By: Patterson Belknap| September 18, 2017: Today, New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that he has directed the Department of Financial Services (DFS) to issue a new regulation requiring “credit reporting agencies to register with” the DFS, as well as comply with the Department’s “first-in-the-nation cybersecurity standard.” Read more…
Global Custodian | By: Tony Freeman | GPE – September 20, 2017: The implementation of MiFID II in January 2018 is being predicted by many market participants as a Big Bang moment for Europe’s financial markets. This is because the scope of MiFID II/MiFIR is so wide-ranging and covers a Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | September 19th, 2017: There has been more than $2 billion spent on fire suppression efforts so far this budget year in the US (the budget year runs from October 1 through September 30), according to the US Forest Service. That figure represents a Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: John Bringenberg | September 18, 2017: The next stratum of electricity and grid development over the coming two decades appears more and more clear. Major utilities methodically move through the regulatory and practical deployment of smarter communicating grid technology and advanced metering. This continues the Read more…
The Financial Times | September 19, 2017: Google and other tech groups came under cross-party pressure from lawmakers on Tuesday as an effort to combat sex trafficking turned into a test of Washington’s new wariness of the power of big tech companies. Senior Republicans and Democrats voiced their support for Read more…
RT Documentary | GPE – September 19, 2017: Technology and innovation hub, Shenzhen is known as China’s “silicon valley” and “the city of the future”. Once a fishing village, in just 50 years it grew into a megacity packed with skyscrapers. It hosts international technology exhibitions and forums and attracts Read more…
China Global Television Network (CGTN) | By: Wang Xueying | GPE – September 19, 2017: Desertification is threatening the environment and regional economies. In north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, an experiment is being carried out in the Kubuqi desert to control desertification and even turn it green. Originally published Read more…
Reuters | By: Alex Whiting | GPE – September 19, 2017: More than 1.3 billion people live on agricultural land that is deteriorating, putting them at risk of worsening hunger, water shortages and poverty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) said. Originally published September 12, 2017: People’s use Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: By Dan Frosch and Laura Kusisto | September 17, 2017: As floodwaters finally retreat, officials must contend with tens of thousands unable to return to their homes. The Government’s Growing Flood Problem: Lillian Godfrey has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Shayndi Raice | September 18, 2017: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, with 10 square miles under water, executed a 25-year master plan in five years. This once-bustling city was facing all the challenges of former manufacturing hubs across the country when it wrote a 25-year plan Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Rob Taylor | September 17, 2017: Both sides in Australia’s referendum on same-sex marriage wonder if millennials, more accustomed to texting and social media, actually know how to send a letter. Australia—The future of democracy faces an unexpected challenge from within. Can young voters Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Steven Russolillo | September 18, 2017: BIS report weighs up risks and rewards from virtual currencies’ surging popularity. Central banks should consider introducing their own cryptocurrencies to counter the risks from the explosive growth in bitcoin and other virtual currencies, the Bank for International Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: The Editorial Board | September 17, 2017: An appellate panel rewrites Supreme Court precedent to give free rein to prosecutors. Prosecutors and regulators like to define insider trading broadly—they claim to know it when they see it. A Second Circuit Court of Appeals panel Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Robert McMillan | September 18, 2017: The crisis has sent shock waves through the industry, spooked consumers and sparked investigations. On March 8, researchers at Cisco Systems Inc. reported an online security flaw that allowed hackers to break into servers around the internet. Cisco Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Victoria Moores | September 18, 2017: Emirates president Tim Clark believes the Hyperloop, a vacuum-tube mass-transportation concept, could be used for aviation applications such as baggage transit. “This technology is in its infancy, but it’s like drone technology and the revolution in automotive. This is Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Chao Deng | September 18, 2017: Chinese authorities are moving toward a broad clampdown on bitcoin trading, testing the resilience of the virtual currency as well as the idea its decentralized nature protects it from government interference. Regulators have decided on a comprehensive ban Read more…
Reuters | September 17, 2017: Beijing will suspend construction of major public projects in the city this winter in an effort to improve the capital’s notorious air quality, official media said on Sunday, citing the municipal commission of housing and urban-rural development. All construction of road and water projects, as Read more…
Reuters | By: Anna Pujol-Mazzini | September 14, 2017: Asian glaciers are set to shrink by at least a third by 2100 due to climate change, researchers said on Thursday, threatening millions who depend on their meltwaters for drinking, farming and hydro-electricity. The scientists’ prediction is based on an assumption Read more…
Clean Technica | Lenz Blog | By: Dr. Karl-Friedrich Lenz | September 17th, 2017: Today I learned that the German Ruhr region needs to find a budget of around 220 million Euro a year to deal with the environmental consequences of 150 years of coal mining. Around two thirds of Read more…
Clean Technica | Nexus Media | By: Marlene Cimons | September 17th, 2017: Trees provide beauty when they bloom and shade when it’s hot. They are a symbol of the environment, hence the term “tree huggers” to describe eco-activists. They even inspire (often florid) poetry. And now, scientists have learned Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Michael Barnard | September 17th, 2017: Electric cars and other vehicles continue to gain momentum, just as autonomous features are becoming mainstream. But while potential job losses due to autonomy are a strong focus, the multitude of impacts electrification will have on road transportation aren’t as Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Brian Blackstone September 17, 2017: Global central bank consortium says there may be up to $14 trillion in “missing” foreign exchange-related debt, with uncertain effects on financial stability. Nonfinancial companies and other institutions outside of the U.S., excluding banks, may be sitting on as Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Laura Kusisto and Arian Campo-Flores | September 16, 2017: Florida owners benefit from homes built to more-stringent codes: ‘Tree branches bounced off of our roof. But the house is fine.’ When Hurricane Wilma pummeled Florida in 2005, it nearly ripped the roof from Stephany Read more…
The Hill | By: Sylvan Lane | September 16, 2017: The House Financial Services Committee is considering a bill that would ban any foreign bank that does business with North Korea from the United States financial system. The potential move comes as the North Korean government expands the scope and Read more…
Clean Technica | Nexus Media | By: Marlene Cimons | September 16th, 2017: Orange isn’t just the new black. It’s also the new green. Twenty years ago, an orange juice producer dumped thousands of tons of orange peels and pulp onto a barren section of a Costa Rican national park, Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: William Steel | September 13, 2017: With the complete toll of Hurricane Irma beginning to reveal itself, renewable energy stakeholders take stock of lessons learned. Haiti-based micro-utility start-up Sigora Haiti is one such group. Holding a concession from the government of Haiti to be sole Read more…
The Chicago Tribune | By: Barry Hatton | September 11, 2017: Portugal’s Pego do Altar reservoir looks like disused quarry now, its bare, exposed slopes rising up steeply on each side and shimmering in the sun as it holds barely 11 percent of the water it was designed for. The Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jim Carlton | September 13, 2017: With a population expected to reach 5 million by 2050, state officials are looking at siphoning water from a river that feeds Great Salt Lake, but critics worry the plan will damage the environment and fragile wetlands. Mormon Read more…
The RSA Conference | By: Tony Kontzer | GPE – September 14, 2017: It’s hard to stonewall hackers who are threatening to share sensitive data they’ve stolen about customers and employees on the dark web if they don’t receive a ransom. The prospect of calling the bluff and risking the Read more…
The Guardian | By: Matthew Taylor | September 12. 2017: Thames Water must break up congealed mass of fat, wet wipes and nappies to prevent raw sewage flooding streets. A fatberg weighing the same as 11 double decker buses and stretching the length of two football pitches is blocking a Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Fahira Brodlija | GPE – September 13, 2017: The U.S. legal system doesn’t provide for an FCPA compliance defense, which would relieve a company of liability for FCPA violations if it can prove that it created and maintained an effective FCPA compliance program at the Read more…
Hydroworld.com | By: Elizabeth Ingram | GPE – September 12, 2017: “Community hydro” is a phrase we’ve been seeing fairly regularly recently, and it generally refers to a hydroelectric project where development was driven by a community, for the benefit of an array of shareholders. The National Energy Foundation in Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jennifer Runyon | GPE – September 12, 2017: As homeowners and businesses continue to install energy generating equipment like batteries and solar PV behind their meters, forward-looking utilities such as San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) are piloting projects that will help them figure out Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Rachel Witkowski and Leslie Scism | GPE – September 12, 2017: A federally underwritten program, already roughly $25 billion in debt from earlier storms, faces huge new claims as Hurricane Harvey poses new hazards to a giant U.S. flood insurer already facing mounting debt Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julian Spector | GPE – September 12, 2017: For most, the payoff is not here yet, according to a new NREL study. But it’s coming as PV deployment increases. With so few utility-scale solar-plus-storage projects actually built, we don’t have much data on how their economics Read more…
Reuters | GPE – September 12, 2017: China launched nearly 8,000 water clean-up projects in the first half of 2017 with projected total investment of 667.4 billion yuan ($100 billion), the environment ministry said on Thursday. The projects were devised as part of a 2015 action plan to treat and Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Trefor Moss | GPE – September 12, 2017: Orders for helicopters and planes are up as the Chinese government reforms flight restrictions. Originally published August 25, 2017: Above Shanghai’s skyline, things are eerily quiet: the helicopters and small planes that whir over other cities Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | GPE – September 12, 2017: The United States Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory has updated its analysis of electricity generation technology costs, and it’s good news again for wind and solar, which come out cheapest alongside natural gas. Originally published August Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | September 11th, 2017: The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, a state owned corporation that is roughly equivalent to NASA, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and SpaceX all rolled into one, says it is making plans to build T-Flight — a T-Flight flying train concept Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | September 10th, 2017: The scale of the world’s current micro plastics pollution problem can’t be overstated. Plastics, and more importantly their nearly invisible half-broken-down remnants, are now everywhere. They’re in the food you eat, the water you drink, and even often enough in Read more…
The Financial Times | September 10, 2017: An army of Chinese entrepreneurs faces the future with a sense of adventure. China’s army of entrepreneurs is facing the future with an unrivalled sense of adventure and curiosity. The millions of internet-connected bikes that have appeared on the streets of China’s major Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Chao Deng | September 10, 2017: Authorities to ban commercial trading of all virtual currencies. Chinese authorities plan to shut down domestic bitcoin exchanges, delivering a final blow to a once-thriving industry of commercial trading for virtual currencies, which took off inside the mainland Read more…
Reuters | By: Laila Kearney | September 08, 2017: Texas communities flooded by Hurricane Harvey could see their property tax revenues sink, a financial blow that would leave many cities and counties struggling for years. Property taxes are the top source of revenue for local governments in Texas, which depend Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Christina Rexrode | September 08, 2017: The credit-reporting company has come under attack for its handling of data-breach that exposed information of 143 million consumers. Consumers, financial firms and regulators attempted to assess the damage the large hack at Equifax Inc. EFX -13.66% could Read more…
Reuters | By: Dustin Volz, David Shepardson | September 08, 2017: Equifax Inc (EFX.N) faced a storm of criticism on Friday over a hack that may have compromised personal data for some 143 million Americans, with consumers clamoring for answers and cyber security experts questioning the response to the massive Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Aaron Narva | September 08, 2017: The growing complexity of third-party relationships, and the immediate regulatory and reputational risks of those third parties has procurement teams, compliance officers and legal departments working to figure out the best way to proceed. When and how should they Read more…
CRS Insight | Policy And Considerations For Congress | Various Authors | September 6, 2017: An issue for Congress is how federal floodplain policy shapes implementation of federal projects and programs. Federal floodplain policy has particular relevance for federal disaster recovery assistance and infrastructure support. President Trump and, earlier, Presidents Read more…
Congressional Research Service | By: Linda Luther | September 06, 2017: Every year, communities in the United States are affected by disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, floods, wildfires, and winter storms. After a disaster, when a region turns its attention to rebuilding, one of the greatest challenges often Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Brett Walton | GPE – September 08, 2017: As rates rise, water authorities question longstanding affordability measurement. Originally published August 24, 2017: Earlier this year, Manny Teodoro, a Texas A&M University associate professor, sat in a meeting with a committee that advises the Phoenix Water Read more…
U.S. GAO | Anti-Money Laundering | GPE – September 08, 2017: GAO-17-684: Published: Aug 22, 2017. Publicly Released: Sep 7, 2017. Transnational drug traffickers try to launder their money to make illicit proceeds appear legitimate. To help fight this, U.S. agencies and regulators monitor financial institutions’ compliance with anti-money laundering Read more…
The New York Times | By: Tiffany Hsu | September 07, 2017: Equifax, one of the three major consumer credit reporting agencies, said on Thursday that a data breach left Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers and other sensitive information for 143 million United States consumers vulnerable to hackers. Criminals Read more…
Avionics | By: Woodrow Bellamy III | GPE – September 07, 2017: Research, operation and future considerations for augmented reality technologies have been expanding throughout the global aviation industry over the past decade, though published exploration of A/R can be traced back as far as the 1990s. We highlight some Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: John Croft | GPE – September 07, 2017: In a Thales advanced technology laboratory in France, engineers are testing a next-generation air traffic controller workstation that will let controllers know if their visual scan needs a tweak. In Ottawa, Ontario, Searidge Technologies engineers Read more…
Circle Of Blue | By: Keith Schneider | GPE – September 07, 2017: Originally published July 14, 2016: Earlier this year, in an announcement that has become more routine around the world, Suy Sem, Cambodia’s minister of mines and energy, declared a moratorium on the construction of big hydropower dams Read more…
Science Daily | Source – Wildlife Conservation Society | GPE – September 07, 2017: Scientists used historical data and models to predict that almost 900 million tons of sediments would be retained by 6 potential new Andean dams on the Amazon river system. Scientists investigating the effects of six planned Read more…
Reuters | By: David Stanway | GPE – September 07, 2017: China has pledged to cut average concentrations of airborne particles known as PM2.5 by more than 15 percent year-on-year in the winter months in 28 northern cities to meet key smog targets, the environment ministry said. Originally published August Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | GPE – September 07, 2017: The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network added Honolulu to a reporting program for real estate deals involving cash transactions. Originally published August 23, 2017: FinCEN also extended reporting requirements for six other metropolitan areas under Read more…
Reuters | By: Alex Whiting | GPE – September 07, 2017: A major project to restore land in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region to boost millions of people’s ability to grow food won gold on Tuesday in a U.N.-backed award for the world’s best policies to combat desertification and improve fertility of Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Richard L. Cassin | GPE – September 07, 2017: The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control put more entities and individuals from China, Russia, Singapore and Namibia on the North Korea sanctions list. Originally published August 22, 2017: OFAC said the blocked companies Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Frances McLeod | GPE – September 07, 2017: Companies are increasingly frustrated by privacy protection laws that vary from country to country. But the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which becomes law on May 25, 2018, eliminates much of the confusion with Read more…
The New York Times | By: Nathaniel Popper | GPE – September 07, 2017: In a growing number of online attacks, hackers have been calling up Verizon, T-Mobile U.S., Sprint and AT&T and asking them to transfer control of a victim’s phone number to a device under the control of Read more…
The White House | GPE – September 07, 2017: ESTABLISHING DISCIPLINE AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW AND PERMITTING PROCESS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS. Originally published August 15, 2017: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and in Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Jeremy Deaton | GPE – September 07, 2017: If the United States wants to kick its coal habit, it will need to install a lot more solar power. That raises an important question: Where should all those panels reside? They could always go live on a Read more…
Le Monde / Africa | Interview By: Ghalia Kadiri | GPE – September 07, 2017: For Mohamed Amine El Hajhouj, director of the Zenata Development Corporation, the project developed near Casablanca could be exported to other countries. Originally published August 29, 2017: Will the eco-city of Zenata make us forget Read more…
European Court Of Human Rights | September 2017: This Factsheet does not bind the Court and is not exhaustive. Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence) of the European Convention on Human Rights provides that: “1. Everyone has the right to respect for his Read more…
World Resources Institute | By: Natasha Ferrari | GPE – September 07, 2017: The World Conference on Ecological Restoration takes place in Iguazu Falls, Brazil. In anticipation of the conference, we spoke with experts on restoration taking place right nearby in Brazil—how it benefits the planet, how farmers can make Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: By Lawrence Cappello | September 04, 2017: A Washington, D.C., judge strikes the balance in an investigation of riots on Inauguration Day. News broke last month that the Justice Department had demanded DreamHost, a Los Angeles tech company, turn over information on more than Read more…
European Court Of Human Rights | September 2017: This factsheet does not bind the Court and is not exhaustive. Personal Data Protection: “The mere storing of data relating to the private life of an individual amounts to an interference within the meaning ofArticle 8 [of the European Convention on Human Read more…
The Hill | By: Michael DeLaGarza | GPE – September 05, 2017: In January, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson announced: “Given the vital role elections play in this country, it is clear that certain systems and assets of election infrastructure meet the definition of critical infrastructure, in fact and Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Tobias Engelmeier | GPE – September 05, 2017: The global microgrid market is ready for significant private investment. While there remain some challenges – especially around the regulatory framework and aggregation of projects – there are now enough businesses with viable business models to provide early Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Geoffrey Styles | GPE – September 05, 2017: Bloomberg’s renewable energy affiliate forecasts that wind and solar power will make major inroads into the global market share of natural gas within a decade. This is a crucially important question for major oil companies who are betting Read more…
Project Syndicate | By: Andrew Sheng and Xiao Geng | August 30, 2017: Financial markets today are thriving. The Dow Jones industrial average, the S&P 500, and the Nasdaq composite index have all reached record highs lately, with emerging-economy financial markets also performing strongly, as investors search for stability amid Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Chao Deng | September 04, 2017: Prices for bitcoin and ethereum tumble after ban announced. Chinese authorities banned a type of fundraising using cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, dealing a blow to startups and other businesses that seized on the relatively new method of raising capital. Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Kenneth Bossong | GPE – September 04, 2017: The latest issue of the U.S. Energy Information’s (EIA) “Electric Power Monthly,” with data through June 30, reveals that renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar — including small-scale PV — and wind) remain in a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Alyssa Abkowitz and Liza Lin | September 04, 2017: Alphabet unit is seeking engineers to fill jobs related to AI, cloud computing in country seen as having certain advantages over U.S. Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL -0.34% Google is ramping up its presence in China, hiring Read more…
The Guardian | By: Oliver Milman | Updated September 04, 2017: Communities face surging toxic fumes and possible water contamination, as refineries and plants report more than 2,700 tons of extra pollution Hurricane Harvey has resulted in Houston’s petrochemical industry leaking thousands of tons of pollutants, with communities living near Read more…
Reuters | GPE – September 03, 2017: Launches of new digital currencies, known as initial coin offerings (ICOs), have shaken up social and economic order, created hidden financial risks, and in some cases may amount to fraud, China’s National Internet Finance Association said. Originally published August 31, 2017: ICO investors Read more…
Reuters | By: Swati Pandey | GPE – September 03, 2017: Australia said on Thursday it would strengthen its money laundering laws, including bringing bitcoin providers under the government’s financial intelligence unit, days after a fresh scandal at one of the country’s biggest banks. Originally published August 17, 2017: The Read more…
Reuters | By: Stephen Nellis | August 29, 2017: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Wednesday unveiled tools to make augmented reality apps for mobile devices using the Android operating system, setting up its latest showdown with Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) iPhone over next-generation smartphone features. Phone-based augmented Read more…
Xinhuanet | By: Xiang Bo | August 29, 2017: XI’AN, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) — A resort hotel in Yangling, an agricultural high-tech demonstration zone in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, has seen its tax drop by 670,000 yuan (about 101,200 U.S. dollars) since May last year. The company’s revenue was 20 Read more…
Financial Times | By: Various Authors | August 28, 2017: From 1m in 2013, the number of Chinese in the continent is in decline, analysts say Like dozens of others from his sleepy fishing village on China’s south-east coast, Wen Wenyuan set off a few years ago to start a Read more…
Financial Times | By: Various Authors | August 28, 2017: Centuries of centralisation blamed for neglect, rural flight and sense of abandonment In a wave of national solidarity, donations and emergency assistance have been flowing into the scattered hillside communities of central Portugal where devastating forest fires have claimed more Read more…
Financial Times | By: Various Authors | August 24, 2017: Unanimous privacy ruling dents government attempts to register country’s 1.3bn people Narendra Modi’s plans to widen the scope of India’s vast biometric identification system have been dealt a blow by judges on the Supreme Court, who have ruled that Indians Read more…
Financial Times | By: Various Authors | August 24, 2017: China’s reliance on infrastructure to drive overall investment hit a new high last month, raising worries that Beijing’s intensifying crackdown on local government debt, which mainly finances infrastructure, will drag down overall growth. Fixed-asset investment remains the biggest engine of Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Nicole Hong | August 23, 2017: Judges reject former SAC Capital Advisors manager Mathew Martoma’s request for new trial: Prosecutors recovered lost ground in their fight against insider trading with a court decision Wednesday upholding the 2014 conviction of former SAC Capital Advisors LLP Read more…
Xinhuanet | July 12, 2017: LHASA, July 12 (Xinhua) — Yandao, 35, had never been to Qinghai-Tibet Plateau before he joined an observation team on China’s second scientific expedition to the plateau in June. Yandao, a member of the Blang ethnic minority, comes from a small village in Xishuangbana, in Read more…
Xinhuanet | August 17, 2017: XINING, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) — A living biobank was set up in northwest China’s Qinghai Province on Wednesday. The living biobank is in Dulan County on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. The county is home to 43 species of endangered animals including Tibetan antelope, snow leopard and Read more…
Xinhuanet | July 27, 2017: SHENZHEN, July 27 (Xinhua) — A total of 155 nature reserves exist on China’s Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, according to figures released at the ongoing 19th International Botanical Congress in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. The reserves cover more than 820,000 square kilometers, 32 percent of Read more…
The Hill | By: Michael Delagarza | August 19, 2017: In January, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson announced: “Given the vital role elections play in this country, it is clear that certain systems and assets of election infrastructure meet the definition of critical infrastructure, in fact and in law.” Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jess Shankleman | August 14, 2017: Electric car owners are earning as much as $1,530 a year just by parking their vehicle and feeding excess power back into the grid. Trials in Denmark carried out by Nissan Motor Co. and Italy’s biggest utility Enel SpA Read more…
CleanTechnica | By: Tobias Engelmeier | August 18, 2017: The global microgrid market is ready for significant private investment. While there remain some challenges – especially around the regulatory framework and aggregation of projects – there are now enough businesses with viable business models to provide early stage, strategic or Read more…
Energy Post | By: Geoffrey Styles | August 7, 2017: Bloomberg’s renewable energy affiliate forecasts that wind and solar power will make major inroads into the global market share of natural gas within a decade. This is a crucially important question for major oil companies who are betting their future Read more…
Risk.Net | By: Louie Woodall | August 17, 2017: US regulators are raising concerns about the use of machine learning techniques to assess contagion risks in bank model networks. Last year, certain entities supervised by the US Federal Reserve were asked to analyse their aggregate model risk – essentially the interactions and dependencies between various Read more…
FirstPost | By: Various Authors | August 17, 2017: Agartala: Due to severe floods in Assam, West Bengal and Bihar, the northeastern region has been cut off by rail from the rest of India for about a week, officials said on Thursday. “As many railway tracks and stations in Assam, North Read more…
The Weather Channel | By: Ada Carr | August 16, 2017: Spain’s Tagus River is at risk of drying up completely due to drought and water transfer. The river is subject to a water management plan over a decade old that did not take Spain’s droughts into consideration. The Tagus Read more…
Reuters | By: Amantha Perera | August 16, 2017: ADIGAMA, Sri Lanka (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Scorched by a 10-month drought that has killed crops and reduced residents to buying trucked-in water, Adigama’s young people are voting with their feet. At least 150 youth have left this agricultural village 170 Read more…