More than 50 percent of UK universities divest from fossil fuels.
… ossil_fuel_divestment_student_protest_at_tufts_university.jpg More than 50 percent of UK … fuels since the campaign began in 2012. University of York became the 77th university to divest from all fossil fuels in …
People & Planet research shows University of Sheffield has not made good on its promise to divest from all fossil fuels. We can't let them get away with it.
… Sheffield University's 'divestment betrayal' Chris … | 11th March 2019 News Fossil Fuel Divestment University Sheffield Change Makers … ossil_fuel_divestment_student_protest_at_tufts_university.jpg People & Planet research shows …
Loughborough University has attempted to silence divestment campaigners with threats of disciplinary action and financial sanctions.
… Loughborough University has attempted to silence divestment … action and financial sanctions. Loughborough University have responded to a non-violent … chalk spray on campus to protest the university’s ties to fossil fuel financiers …
People & Planet league table shows universities strong on divestment but not investing in renewables.
… companies or funds. The People & Planet University League measures ethical and … accessing publicly available information on university websites and marking it against set criteria such as whether the university has an ethical investment policy …
Students at the University of Manchester occupy finance Offices in protest of £11,975,986 invested in fossil fuels.
… Students occupy University of Manchester Brendan Montague | … Makers ejued_iwwaiew_2.jpg Students at the University of Manchester occupy finance … invested in fossil fuels. Students at the University of Manchester are protesting the …
59 University of Oxford academics have signed an open letter urging the University to 'take action on climate change' by ridding its £3.8bn endowment of investments in fossil fuel companies, as hundreds march to demand change.
… Oxford University 'must divest from fossil fuels' The … UK Green Economy magnus-gas-mask-cut.jpg 59 University of Oxford academics have signed an open letter urging the University to 'take action on climate change' …
Student occupation demanding fossil fuel divestment had no access to toilets, running water or internet.
… Activists occupy University of Manchester Marianne Brooker | … 2019 News Change Makers People And Planet University Manchester Divestment Fossil Fuels … water or internet. Student protestors at the University of Manchester were denied access to …
University of East Anglia is the latest institution to vote to ditch the sale of beef on campus, with other Students' Unions looking to follow.
… Uea Food And Farming Change Makers cow.jpg University of East Anglia is the latest … other Students' Unions looking to follow. The University of East Anglia's student-elected … have branded the decision to ban beef on the University of East Anglia campus as …
Goldsmiths, University of London said it is to remove all beef products from sale from next month.
… Burgers banned by university to save planet Alison Kershaw | 15th August 2019 News Goldsmiths University Beef Climate Breakdown National … Change Makers 21780615-1.jpg Goldsmiths, University of London said it is to remove all …
University of California president Janet Napolitano halts use of glyphosate on all ten of its campuses.
… Glyphosate ditched by California University Jonathan Latham | 28th May 2019 News Glyphosphate Monsanto Herbicides University Campus Change Makers … mackenzie_feldman_and_bridget_gustafson.jpeg University of California president Janet …
Amazon rainforest fires lead campaigners to urge universities to act and ban beef immediately.
… public, students, and alumni to contact their university reps to call for the ban. Global … call for change comes after Goldsmiths University stopped selling beef on campus as …
Anti-vivisection rally and march planned for Saturday 27 April at midday.
… Oxford University animal testing protest Staff … 2019 News Animal Testing Vivisection Oxford University Change Makers wistar_rat.jpg … take place against animal testing at Oxford University to mark the 40th World Day for …
A handful of UK institutions have already banned meat products, while others are cutting down.
… Beef bans and vegan cafes are appearing on university campuses amid growing concerns … indicates. Among them are Goldsmiths, University of London, and King's College …
February 1968. From South Vietnam the explosive Teêt Offensive has dealt a final blow to shattered US troops and sparked a worldwide appetite for insurrection. Left destitute by standards of living and provoked by a three-year war on their ideological comrades, student leaders across Europe rise up with a single voice ‘We shall fight. We will win. Paris, London, Rome, Berlin.’ Within six weeks, 20,000 protesters will besiege the American embassy in London’s Grosvenor Square. It is the Spring of Discontent, and revolution is the air.
… of student radicalism to emerge was Essex University. Having only been established in … people, when a poorly judged visit to the university by a professor from Porton Down was … and helping to establish our own anti-university.’ The Essex Anti-University was in …
Southampton students develop new drones to monitor climate breakdown and poaching.
… | 8th January 2020 News Drones Research University Of Southampton Science Change … poaching. The engineering department at the University of Southampton is launching a new … the new technology in collaboration with the University of Bristol. Remote environments …
Investigative reporters working for Greenpeace UK's Energydesk have uncovered a nexus of senior academics willing to accept large sums of money from fossil fuel companies to write reports and newspaper articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the funding. Lawrence Carter & Maeve McClenaghan spill the beans ...
… articles published under their own names and university affiliations, without declaring the … Frank Clemente, a sociologist from Penn State university, was asked if he could produce a … skill set; that he could be quoted using his university job title; and that it would cost …
Scotland's decision to maintain its GM-free status is in the best interests of the country, its people and its farmers, 30 scientists write to Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead. It is abundantly justified by the scientific evidence and will support the sustainable, agroecological farming systems of the future.
… Food and Rural Development at Newcastle University; Director, Stockbridge Technology … Group Prof Susan Bardocz , PhD, formerly at University of Debrecen, Hungary; formerly at … Professor (retired), Plant Agriculture, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada Prof. …
With the UK's Digital Economy Bill set to be finalised today, new 5G microwave spectra are about to be released across the planet without adequate safety testing, writes Lynne Wycherley. Global neglect of the Precautionary Principle is opening the way to corporate profit but placing humans and ecosystems at risk, and delaying a paradigm shift towards safer connectivity.
… reported 'no significant effect', research by University of Washington biology professor … professor Martin Pall , Washington State University - winner of eight international … being discovered. Researchers at Bristol University reported in May that bees' hairs …
Sky Ocean Rescue, WWF and Swansea University launch biggest UK seagrass restoration project ever undertaken.
… Systems Seagrass Sky Ocean Rescue WWF Swansea University Change Makers 21921935-1.jpg Sky Ocean Rescue, WWF and Swansea University launch biggest UK seagrass … conservation organisation WWF and Swansea University are launching what they say is the …
Dangerous volumes of neonicotinoid insecticides and other pesticides are expressed in common wild flowers like buttercups and hawthorn blossom in countryside under arable cultivation, a new study has discovered. The discovery invalidates the UK government's 'pollinator strategy' based on creating 'safe havens' in arable areas - because the havens are in fact loaded with pesticides.
… loaded with pesticides. Scientists at Sussex University have discovered that bees are … by Arthur David et al. The research by Sussex University and supported by the Soil … Dave Goulson, Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex, and one of the authors …
China is on track to meet its ultra-low emissions goals for 2020.
… research was in collaboration with Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beihang University, the Ministry of Environmental Protection (Beijing), HeBei University of Science and Technology, the …
This summer families of atom bomb test veterans who have died of cancer took the UK government to the High Court for its failure to compensate them, writes Chris Busby. Also on trial was the 'official' radiation risk model, which understates the true health hazards of internal exposures by a factor of 1,000. But 17 weeks after the case, litigants and veterans are still awaiting judgment.
… from Stockmann in Riga. I wore a sober London University tie and no beret: unrecognisable. … Act. Finally Blake made a Direction that the University of Dundee release the … These were Prof. Inge Schmitz-Feuerhake, University of Bremen, Prof Shoji Sawada, …
New £1.25m study will explore how to deliver a fair and just Net Zero transition.
… Brendan Montague | 26th September 2019 News University Of Sussex Net Zero Carbon Emissions … A new three-year research project led by the University of Sussex will explore ways to … , a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Sussex’s Science Policy Research …
Greens would write off billions of pounds of debt for those who went to university since tuition fees were trebled in 2012 by coalition government.
… 11th December 2019 News Green Party Students University Change Makers … of pounds of debt for those who went to university since tuition fees were trebled in … were forced to pay £9,000 each year to go to university after the coalition government …