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' …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
Wild flower margins around arable fields can funnel deadly pesticides into the bees, wild pollinators and other insects they are intended to benefit, writes Oliver Tickell. Neonic pesticides are often far more concentrated in the wild flowers than in the crop itself.
… wild flowers. The researchers from the University of Sussex also found that the … to neonicotinoids in field margins. The new University of Sussex research makes it clear … at risk. Last December work by Plymouth University showed that bumblebees preferred …
It’s a problem more usually associated with pensioners but according to new research fuel poverty has become an issue amongst younger people – particularly students - too.
… News Fuel Poverty Students Petrova Birmingham University Cold UK Strategy World Health … young urban adults' is authored by Birmingham University research scientist, Dr Saska …
A scientific paper published today says badger persecution may be one of the reasons for the persistence of bovine TB hotspots, writes Oliver Tickell. A further finding is that the main risk factors for bTB are all to do with cattle - not badgers at all.
… for Population and Ecosystem Health at the University of Glasgow said: "What we know from … Trust-funded research was carried out by the University of Glasgow, Queen's University Belfast (QUB) and the Agri-Food and …
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: …
There's strong public support for protecting marine wildlife, writes Horatio Morpurgo - so why aren't politicians championing the cause? Labour and Tories alike fear to challenge the big fishing companies that have come to believe they own Britain's offshore waters and seabed. Now it's up to use to prove they're wrong.
… by the local fishing community, Plymouth University and the Blue Marine Foundation. … a video sledge." Emma Sheehan, of Plymouth University, director of the survey in Lyme Bay … cost effective - but what is being lost? All university research, in Lyme Bay or anywhere …
After over a century of coal ash and colliery waste dumping, the Tyne and Wear coastline is no stranger to industrial pollution. But soon a horrific new technology - underground coal gasification (UCG) - will endanger human health and the environment, backed by unflinching Government support and generous lashings of taxpayers' money.
… also has strong connections to Newcastle University - which, given their science … , is a recently appointed member of Newcastle University's Council - but perhaps more … Younger . He was a professor at Newcastle University who moved to Glasgow University in …
Next April the UK government proposes to increase taxes on self-consumed solar electricity installations on schools, offices, warehouses and factories by a whopping 6-8 times, write the STA and undersigned. This inexplicable move, which threatens a once thriving solar industry already on its knees, must be abandoned.
… and Writer Professor Peter Lynn, University of Essex Lisa Ashford, CEO, Ethex … of Energy Policy, Energy Policy Group at the University of Exeter Mike Smyth, Chair, … for Solar Energy Research, Heriot-Watt University Professor Emeritus Susan Roaf, …
The UK's nuclear deal with China makes no sense, writes Jeffrey Henderson - unless you factor in the simultaneous agreement to forge lucrative links between UK and Chinese financial markets. Lucrative, that is, for the City institutions whose interests the British government so assiduously represents. As for the rest of us, our task is simple: to bear the ever-growing cost.
… bankers - and no one else Jeffrey Henderson University of Bristol | 6th November 2015 News … is Professor of International Development, University of Bristol. This article was …
The repeated burning of England's upland moors - carried out so more grouse can be reared for lucrative shooting parties - is seriously damaging a unique and valuable ecosystem, writes Paul Brown - destroying ages-old peat, reducing its capacity to retain water, and releasing megatonnes of carbon to the atmosphere.
… of five years work by a team from Leeds University in the north of England, close to … Holden, from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds and co-author of the … also from the School of Geography at the University of Leeds, and a co-author of the …
A massive citizen-powered climate simulation conclusively links the UK's winter floods to global warming, writes Simon Redfern. Over 33,000 climate models running in 'screen saver' mode show a powerful connection between hotter oceans and UK rainfall.
… a professor of geosystem science at the University of Oxford, presented his take on … of climate and environmental physics at the University of Bern and chairman of the IPCC … Redfern is Professor in Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge. He does not work for, …
High speed railways connecting Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Huddersfield and Sheffield could transform the economy of the north of England, writes Ian Wray - creating a new mega-city that could challenge London's over-dominance.
… Professor and Visiting Fellow at Liverpool University. This article was originally …
Britain's 20th century architecture is in danger of obliteration, writes Sebastian Messer, with a 'new brutalism' that holds that socially deprived council estates are fit only for demolition. But these buildings are an important part of our cultural heritage, and more than that, they provide affordable housing to millions of people.
… you can live in! Sebastian Messer Northumbria University | 12th February 2016 Comment Cities … Senior Lecturer in Architecture, Northumbria University, Newcastle. Also on The Ecologist: …
Environmentalist George Monbiot will tonight present findings which show that the UK will miss its target for reducing CO<sub>2</sub> emissions by 2020 by as much as 18 per cent.
… research conducted by scientists at University College London suggests that we … will address an audience at Cambridge University on the UK’s transition to a …
An new design of tidal power turbines will generate power at a third the price of current technologies, write Alex Kirby & Oliver Tickell, even at a lower price than offshore wind - without endangering marine life.
… whose technology is being developed by Oxford University's department of engineering science …
The way food is produced has a profound impact on its nutritional profile, according to research published in the British Journal of Nutrition. Not only is organic farming better for animal welfare, the environment and wildlife, writes Peter Melchett, but organic meat, dairy, fruit and vegetables all have tangible health benefits for the people who eat them.
… Carlo Leifert and his team at Newcastle University, along with many co-authors from … composition. In 2014, research by Newcastle University found that organic fruit and … dairy and meat, together with Newcastle University's earlier research on organic …
For 40 years Percy Schmeiser grew oilseed rape on his farm in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Usually, he would sow each year’s crop with seeds saved from the previous harvest. In 1998 Monsanto took Schmeiser to court.
… and I had seeds from each of them sent to the University of Manitoba to see how much of my pure seed was contaminated. The university’s scientists found that half of my … crops? Right. Scientists at the University of Manitoba sought to establish the …