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»All my bets are on a climate agreement«

Will a watered-down global climate agreement do more harm than good? Why not try radical geo-engineering solutions if disaster is looming? The University Post interviews German climate scientist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber to get some answers

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Politics

Down and out at the alternative climate conference

Packing up for the evening, the University Post looked disapprovingly at the paper chucked around

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Politics

Staff offered one months extra pay to leave

University board passes budget that will mean cutting 130 jobs. Affected staff will get to January to consider going voluntarily

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Politics

Activist hopes the climate sceptics are right

London-based environmental activist and founder of a project to plant trees in urban spaces will protest at Bella Centre on Saturday. She hopes social action can influence the climate talks

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Politics

Two degrees warmer may be past the tipping point

We are already half way between the dangerous and the catastrophic, warns German climate scientist

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Politics

European universities ruled over by politicians

Autonomy is good for modern universities, but it's not happening, not in Denmark, nor anywhere in Europe in general

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Politics

Student protests at job-cuts meeting (updated)

Protesters donned masks of goverment minister Helge Sander and handed out beer, placing the blame for university job losses

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Politics

Universities against third world proposal

COP-15 has poor countries seeking to unlock intellectual property rights on climate innovations.

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Campus

Photo competition: The deadline approaches

Deadline for submitting photos to the University Post photo competition is in just 2 days time. Don’t miss out on the prizes – upload, send, and win.

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Science

Modern politics is a stifling consensus

The battle between left and right has been called off, according to leftist political intellectual Chantal Mouffe, and she does not like it

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