Students have elected Edward Snowden to serve as Rector of the University of Glasgow for the next three years.
… Edward Snowden is Glasgow University's new Rector The Ecologist | 19th … Edward Snowden to serve as Rector of the University of Glasgow for the next three … Snowden elected as the new Rector of the University of Glasgow. "We have a proud and …
The NYT's expose of Kevin Folta's PR role as a pro-GMO shill in the employ of Monsanto barely scratched the surface of a huge web of corporate money, influence and intrigue that permeates the US's premier universities and scientific institutions, writes Jonathan Latham - from Harvard and Cornell to the AAAS. Why the reticence to name all the names?
… , Chair of the Dept. of Horticulture at the University of Florida secretly took expenses … similarly expose Bruce Chassy (Prof Emeritus, University of Illinois) and David Shaw (Mississippi State University). It also discussses, presumably …
Cornell student Robert Schooler was shocked at the pro-GMO propaganda emanating from Cornell University and it's Gates-funded 'Alliance for Science'. But rather than just complain about it, he decided to fight back - with his popular 'GMOWTF' website and an important lecture series this fall by GMO experts on the Cornell campus - the ones that Cornell has been ignoring for years.
… Pro-GMO propaganda at Cornell University - a student fights back Robert … the pro-GMO propaganda emanating from Cornell University and it's Gates-funded 'Alliance for … years. My name is Robert, and I am a Cornell University undergraduate student. However, I'm …
Michael Mann will be remembered as the creator of the 'hockey stick' graph of rising global temperatures, which has put him forever in the crosshairs of climate change sceptics. But as Brendan Montague found, he is a curiously unlikely hero, or villain: rather a dedicated scientist living the American dream, who just happened, to his own surprise, to stumble on something big.
… for dirt. The hacker who broke into the University of East Anglia servers during … System Science Center at Pennsylvania State University, Mann is married to Lorraine, a cell biologist also working at the university. The two met at an event in an …
More than 8,500 separate fires burned during 2018 in California, making them the deadliest and most destructive of any year in the state’s history.
… Sustainability , academics from UCL, the University of California, Irvine, China’s Tsinghua University and Shanghai University of Finance and Economics combined …
Boycott Coca-Cola and make money for the victims of Coca-Cola. How much can we make?
… banned Coke from their campuses. New York University will vote on a ban this month. … a public debate between Coke and Leeds University students, the latter said: … will lead to the removal of Coke from Leeds University property. In November around 100 …
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 …
They promote GMOs, defend toxic chemicals, and attack people who raise concerns about those products as 'anti-science'. But behind the slick 'astroturf' PR fronts lurk some very dubious funders: the same arch-conservative foundations that finance climate science denial. Stacy Malkan exposes the key players in the agribusiness and chemical industry propaganda wars.
… the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Cornell University and the University of California, Davis. Yet their … groups, according to a 2013 study by Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle, PhD. …
As Greece prepares for its election this weekend, the leftist Syriza coalition stands alone as a progressive force committed to rebuild democracy and civil society, writes Elati Pontikopoulou-Venieri - and opposed to the austerity, bigotry, corruption and violence offered by the mainstream parties. Thanks to Greece's young voters, it could just win.
… School in 2011, at a time when an extended university reform had been voted in, that … 50%. Those 'lucky' enough to find a job, even university graduates, will work for €250-300 a … to students, who often cannot shoulder them. University degrees are becoming equated with …
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 …
Koide Hiroaki has spent his entire career as a nuclear engineer, and has become a central figure in Japan's movement for the abolition of nuclear power plants. He met with Katsuya Hirano and Hirotaka Kasai to discuss the catastrophic nuclear meltdowns at Fukushima Daaichi in March 2011, and the crimes and cover-ups committed both before and after the event.
… as a permanent assistant professor at Kyoto University." Koide retired from Kyoto University in the spring of 2015, but … Hirotaka and I visited his office at Kyoto University's Research Reactor Institute in …
Resistance is growing in Todos Santos, Baja California, to a tourism and University campus mega-development of 4,500 homes that claims to be 'free range and locally sourced', writes Viviane Mahieux. It has already grossly disfigured one of Mexico most gorgeous beaches, while locals fear it will drain their aquifers and obliterate a harmonious community.
… Santos, Baja California, to a tourism and University campus mega-development of 4,500 … itself as mindful and an ethically murky university campus. A real-estate project … has already inaugurated Colorado State University's first international campus , …
Patented and 'indentured' seeds are fast taking over the world's food supply, write Jack Kloppenburg & Irwin Goldman, terminating farmers' and gardeners' ancient right to develop new varieties, and forcing them to buy seed anew for every crop. Enter the Open Source Seed Initiative ...
… kicked off its outreach activities on the University of Wisconsin campus on April 17 … malting barley from Pat Hayes of Oregon State University, Midnight Lightning zucchini from … Organic Seeds, and Sovereign carrots from the University of Wisconsin's Irwin Goldman. Most …
Tyrone Hayes has fought a 15-year battle with Syngenta following his discovery that its herbicide Atrazine scrambles sex in frogs, writes F William Engdahl. Now he wants to know - is Atrazine the cause of the US's 2-fold reproductive cancer excess among Blacks and Hispanics?
… used to silence him. This story of a Berkeley University biology professor who conducted … studies available" were done, often without university financial support, because of the … the experiments using funds from Berkeley University and the National Science …
Supporters of the Iraq War dominate the UK's public institutions, despite its dismal failure. Why? Because it's the touchstone for adherence to the neo-liberal consensus and all its dogmas, writes Craig Murray, from TTIP to austerity and the corporate takeover of public services. But now, with the rise of Corbyn and the SNP, the deep state is finally facing a real challenge.
… find a single example who went on to become a University Vice-Chancellor or Principal. By … August 2002 to October 2004 and Rector of the University of Dundee from 2007 to 2010. This …
Thirty-five distinguished scientists urge the US-EPA not to register new mixtures of the herbicides 2,4-D and glyphosate, intended for use on herbicide-tolerant GMO crops. Approval of the herbicide mixtures would endanger both human and environmental health.
… and Natural Resources Washington State University Alison Bleaney, M.B., Ch.B., FACRRM … School of Community Health, Portland State University; Social Justice Committee & Board … Adjunct Professor Dept. of Biology, Duke University Elizabeth Frost, M.D. Medical …
Environmental injustice is deeply embedded in American attitudes, says Robert D. Bullard, and the lead pollution of Flint's water is but the latest example of an unconscious yet pervasive discrimination against poor and minority communities across the US. Only with strong, deliberate and effective leadership can the EPA and other regulators overcome their prejudices.
… injustice Robert D. Bullard Texas Southern University | 28th January 2016 Comment … School of Public Affairs at Texas Southern University and a pioneering scholar in the … example, Dorceta Taylor and Paul Mohai at the University of Michigan have shown that African …
The facts are simple: a new London runway means more planes, more noise, more pollution and more global warming, write David Howarth & Steven Griggs. The 'Heathrow 2.0' initiative's conflation of 'sustainability' and 'sustainable growth' and its avoidance of climate change reek of Trumpian 'alternative facts'.
… facts on planes and pollution? David Howarth University of Essex Steven Griggs De Montfort University | 17th March 2017 Comment Aviation … Professor of Ideology and Discourse Analysis, University of Essex. Steven Griggs is …
Those opposed to the mass release of GM crops and foods inadequately tested for health and ecological safety are routinely accused of being anti-science, writes Elizabeth Henderson. But it's the GM corporations and their academic allies that are suppressing scientific research, and organic farmers that are building alliances with independent scientists for a future of safe, healthy food.
… that has not been proven by research at a university). But nowhere could I find any … any number of research projects with Cornell University scientists. We have tested cover … are not allowed to save and share the seed. University scientists must have permission …
Natural disasters like flood and drought have cost the Australian government more than A$12 billion since 2009, write Tayanah O'Donnel & Josephine Mummery, with even harsher weather events predicted for coming decades. Clearly, it's just the time for Australia to eliminate funding for research on adapting to climate change.
… research Tayanah O'Donnel Josephine Mummery University of Canberra | 16th May 2017 News … Tayanah O'Donnell is Research Fellow, University of Canberra. Josephine Mummery is … and PhD Candidate, climate change policy, University of Canberra. This article was …
Lord Smith's views on fracking betray an total ignorance of a large body of published, peer reviewed science that contradicts his conclusions, writes David Lowry - not to mention those of his political masters. Is 'groupthink' leading the UK astray?
… Professor Robert W. Howarth of Cornell University concludes that: "both shale gas and … by independent academic researchers at the University of Missouri, ' Estrogen and … professor of Communication at Seton Hall University wrote of that dreadful tragedy: …
Environmentalist, democracy campaigner and Nobel laureate; Wangari Maathai led an extraordinary life but it's her overwhelming kindness and charm that I’ll always remember, says Ruth Styles
… her class, and was eventually accepted at the University of Kansas, where she pursued – and … won – a degree in biology. An MSc from the University of Pittsburgh followed and, finally, a PhD from the University of Nairobi, making her the first …
California's worst drought on record is far from over, writes Kieran Cooke. But while residents are getting used to dusty cars and parched lawns, the state's massive agricultural sector is still growing water-intensive crops like rice. How crazy is that?
… Doing the right thing in the environs of the University of California, Davis - one of the … report by climate scientists at Stanford University says the existence of the high …