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United Kingdom: Doctors and academics call for ban on 'inherently risky' fracking

2015-03-30 15:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Fracking should be banned because of the impact it could have on public health, according to a prominent group of health professionals. In a letter published by the British Medical Journal on Monday, 20 high-profile doctors, pharmacists and public health academics said the inherently risky industry should be prohibited in the UK. The arguments against fracking on public health and ecological grounds are overwhelming. There are clear grounds for adopting the precautionary principle and prohibiting...

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Academics to draw up fossil fuel plan

2015-03-21 04:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

BBC: Climate scientists at leading universities are joining forces to discuss the basis of a set of principles governing investment in fossil fuels. They include academics at Oxford, Imperial College London and Harvard. Prof Myles Allen, of Oxford University, said the move was similar to principles governing investment in South Africa under apartheid in the 1980s. "This is a challenging question being put to universities," he told BBC News. "We have the opportunity here to think about the...

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Academics urge University of Edinburgh to end fossil fuel investment

2015-03-01 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Fifty academics from Edinburgh University have signed an open letter calling for the institution to divest its 230m endowment fund from fossil fuels and the arms trade. The letter, to Edinburgh vice-chancellor Prof Sir Timothy OShea, is published in advance of a meeting on Monday of the university committee responsible for recommending options for fossil fuel divestment. It is convening for the last time before the universitys central management group makes its decision on divestment in April....

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Connecting arts and academics

2014-11-04 20:58:19| Agriculture - Topix.net

Camas High School English teacher Ruhiyyih Wittwer shows ninth grade students in the Integrated Arts and Academics magnet program how to create a map using text evidence from a short story they had read earlier.

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