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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists have long suspected that the Sun's 11-year cycle influences climate of certain regions on Earth. Records of average, seasonal temperatures do not date back far enough to confirm any patterns, though. An international team of researchers, armed with a unique proxy, show that unusually cold winters in Central Europe are related to low solar activity – when sunspot numbers are minimal. Germany's Rhine River freezing is the...
PARIS, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Full year 2011-2012 results: Revenue up 4.6% to EUR1,222.2 million (+5.4% at constant currency) - Sustained growth in largest activity, Video Applications: + 5.8% - Good performance by Value-Added Services (+8.5%) offsetting decline in Data Services (-1.6%) - Multi-usage up 16.7% Profitability remains high - EBITDA[1] at EUR957.2 million, 78.3% margin,...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- BeesFree, Inc. (OTCBB: BEES), a company that has developed an innovative composite food supplement for honeybees, BeesVita Plus(TM), to help honeybees avoid the effects of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), received a significant order for delivery in Slovakia. This new order, which is subject to product registration and authorization in the European Union, calls for the company to deliver 3,500 liters of BeesFreeVita Plus(TM) to...
Monday, June 18th 2012, 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Venue: Room Burroughs in the Westin Boston Waterfront, 425 Summer Street, Boston, MA Embassy of the Republic of Poland, Trade & Investment Section and their partners have a pleasure to invite you to the conference "Welcome to BIO-Poland, Explore Our Potential" opening the Polish Pavilion at BIO International Convention 2012 BOSTON, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The conference provides a great opportunity to present Poland as a...
Melting Arctic sea ice will mean colder winters with more snow in the Northern Hemisphere, according to a new study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The research provides further evidence of a relationship between melting ice in the Arctic regions and extensive cold outbreaks across northern continents. The study could also help improve seasonal forecasting of snow and temperature anomalies throughout Europe, North America and China, the...
PARIS, February 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - Revenue growth: +4.6% at EUR602.4 million; +6.0% at constant currency - Profitability: EBITDA[1] up 3.4% to EUR478.5 million, generating an industry-leading EBITDA margin of 79.4% - Group share of net income: net margin at 26% - Excellent visibility: Record backlog of EUR5.3 billion up 9.6% - Fleet expansion programme on track with two successful satellite launches -...
The Bechstein’s bat or Myotis bechsteinii lives in deciduous forests. It used to be very common in the Holocene era, but today there are only a few dispersed groups, despite the fact that a colony can be found almost anywhere in Europe. It has been rendered vulnerable by human interference and forest destruction. And this has even led to confusion about its origin, as the biologist María Napal has shown. In fact, the natural habitat of the Bechstein’s bat is said to be Central Europe,...
KYIV, Ukraine, January 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ukraine assumes chairmanship at the Central European Initiative for the period of 2012. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Kostyantyn Gryshchenko highlighted the importance of active participation of Ukraine in the work of this regional organization given the country's strategic goal to integrate with the EU. Ukraine replaces Serbia that presided over the CEI in 2011. In August of 2011 the President of Ukraine...
Pollution growing particularly in the Baltic Sea region according to study Europe's streams will in future be more heavily polluted with insecticides than before. This is the conclusion of a study by the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) for which scientists compared the situation of 1990 with climate and land use change scenarios in 2090. The risks for streams caused by the use of insecticides in agriculture will increase significantly in many regions of Europe, and...
PARIS, November 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) announces that its W3C satellite has been selected by Al Jazeera Balkans to broadcast its new network to viewers across Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Kosovo and Montenegro. Al Jazeera Balkans has signed a multi-year contract with Eutelsat for capacity on W3C for its new channel which will go live tomorrow at 6 pm. Al Jazeera Balkans is the 23rd to launch in the...
Latest Central Europe Reference Libraries
The Corn Bunting, Miliaria calandra, is a passerine bird in the bunting family Emberizidae. It breeds across southern and central Europe, north Africa and Asia across to Mongolia. It is mainly resident, but some birds from colder regions of central Europe and Asia migrate southwards in winter. The Corn Bunting is a bird of open country with trees, such as farmland and weedy wasteland. Sexes are similar in appearance. The male Corn Bunting is about 20% larger than the female. They have...
The Ring Ouzel (Turdus torquatus) is a European member of the thrush family Turdidae. During times of breeding it is found in the higher regions of western and central Europe and also in the Caucasus. During winter it prefers the warmer south. Ring Ouzels are omnivorous, and prefer a wide range of insects, earthworms and berries. They nest in bushes or similar, laying several eggs in a neat cup-shaped nest in rocky areas such as gullies or scree slopes. They do not form flocks, but...
The Carrion Crow (Corvus corone) can be distinguished from the Common Raven by its size (48"“52 cm in length) and from the Hooded Crow by its black plumage. There is frequent confusion between it and the Rook. The beak is stouter and in consequence looks shorter, and whereas in the adult Rook the nostrils are bare, those of the crow are covered with bristle-like feathers, in both adults and juveniles. This species breeds in western and central Europe, with an allied race (C. c....
The Migrant Hawker (Aeshna mixta) is one of the smaller species of hawker dragonflies. It measures roughly 63 mm in length and prefers still or slow-flowing water and can tolerate brackish sites. The flight period is from July to the end of October. They can be found in North Africa, southern and central Europe to the Baltic.
