je.st
news
Tag: univ
Univ of Utah studies find up to 27 seconds of mental distraction for drivers after using new hands-free technologies
2015-10-23 15:55:24| Green Car Congress
2nd office building for western Univ. City
2015-10-12 21:30:40| Auto Parts - Topix.net
Developer Scott Mazo is doubling down on the office market at University City's western edge as he moves forward with a second building near the bustling district's far end. This week, Mazo said, demolition will begin at 41st and Market Streets, at the site of a Pep Boys store, on his planned 3.0 University Place project.
Tags: city
office
building
western
United Kingdom: Why Univ of Edinburgh will not divest from all fossil fuels
2015-05-12 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: How universities invest their endowment funds is not normally headline news. But universities have found themselves in an unaccustomed spotlight over the last few months as student campaigners have called on them to withdraw their investments from companies involved in the extraction of fossil fuels. That spotlight can feel harsh when media debate takes an easy, black and white line: are they divesting, or are they not? When we looked at this over the last few months at the University of Edinburgh...
Tags: united
kingdom
united kingdom
univ
Univ of Western Australia Cancels Contract for Climate Contrarian Bjorn Lomborg
2015-05-11 14:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The University of Western Australia has cancelled the contract for a policy centre that was to be based on the methodology of controversial academic Bjorn Lomborg after a "passionate emotional reaction" to the plan. The Federal Government had pledged to contribute $4 million to the Consensus Centre, a think tank that was to use methods similar to those used by Dr Lomberg's Copenhagen Centre. Dr Lomborg has attracted controversy for suggesting that the dangers of climate change are overstated,...
Tags: australia
western
contract
climate
Oregon State Univ study links climate changes in Northern and Southern Hemispheres - with 200 year lag
2015-05-04 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: A new study using evidence from a highly detailed ice core from West Antarctica shows a consistent link between abrupt temperature changes on Greenland and Antarctica during the last ice age, giving scientists a clearer picture of the link between climate in the northern and southern hemispheres. Greenland climate during the last ice age was very unstable, the researchers say, characterized by a number of large, abrupt changes in mean annual temperature that each occurred within several decades....