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Academics to draw up fossil fuel plan
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on March 21st, 2015
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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World’s Most Iconic Ecosystems May Collapse Under Climate Change
Posted by Nature World: Brian Stallard on March 21st, 2015
Nature World: Researchers warn that without better local management, some of the world's most iconic ecosystems may collapse under climate change.
It is well known that corals in the Great Barrier Reef, for example, are diminishing due to ocean acidification, and that the Amazon rainforest has been suffering from drought over the last decade. But in order to combat such climate change-related threats, we need to reduce the other pressures they face - for example, overfishing, fertilizer pollution or land clearing....