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A symposium and evening roundtable debate, ?Just Enough: Sufficiency and the Cultural Imagination?, will be held on 4 December 2009.

Princeton - Princeton In its first report since adopting a Sustainability Plan in February 2008, Princeton University states that on-campus greenhouse gas emissions have decreased for the first time since the University's energy-efficient cogeneration plant was installed in 1996.

Drug shrinks lung cancer tumours in mice Researchers plan to take treatment to clinical trials - %0A " Imperial College London News Release Under strict embargo until: 13.

Iconic bridge wins award with a little help from Imperial students Constructionarium initiative helps major engineering company win prestigious award %0A " Monday 9 October 2009 By Colin Smith An ico

November 09, 2009 — Virginia Key — With an average of four mini-earthquakes per day, Southern California's San Jacinto fault constantly adjusts to make it a less likely candidate for a ma

Structures will limit flow of sediments toward Rio Grande Los Alamos, New Mexico, November 5, 2009— Crews broke ground this week on one of two engineered structures in a Los Alamos National Lab

The Energy Futures Lab celebrates becoming an Imperial institute and the opening of new premises New hub for energy research opens at the Imperial College London %0A " Wednesday 3 November 2009 By Co

Digital 'plaster' for monitoring vital signs undergoes first clinical trials Wireless device should enable patients' vital signs to be monitored without bulky monitoring machines News release Issued

28. Zurich - ETH Zürich . ETH Zurich is stepping up its commitment in Asia: from mid-2010, a novel platform for urban development is to be established in Singapore in the form of the "Future Cities Laboratory".

Expect the unexpected when adapting to climate change in Africa, says leading researcher Professor Sir Gordon Conway publishes paper on climate change in Africa %0A " Imperial College London news rel

BERKELEY — When world leaders meet in Copenhagen in December to hash out a treaty limiting carbon dioxide emissions, they should begin planning a future summit to address other pollutants - from soot to ozone - that don't remain in the atmosphere as long as carbon dioxide, but nevertheless are major contributors to global warming.

BERKELEY — A team of 13 prominent scientists and land-use experts has identified an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules for bioenergy that could, if uncorrected, undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gases by encouraging deforestation.

October 21, 2009 — Washington, D.C. — The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) and the University of Miami Knight Center for International Media are pleased t

Franny Armstrong (UCL Zoology 1994), director of 'The Age of Stupid', participated in an audience discussion following the film's screening at UCL on 19 October 2009.

A perfect partnership - that was the verdict of companies which hosted UCL students on work experience this summer.

Student biologists take tropical trip to the rainforest Third-year students enjoy Imperial's first field trip to Uganda %0A " By Danielle Reeves Tuesday 13 October 2009 Having your packed lunch stole

October 08, 2009 — Washington, D.C. — Mass coral bleaching has devastated coral colonies around the world for almost three decades. Now scientists have found that bleaching can make corals more susceptible to disease and, in turn, coral disease can exacerbate the negative effects of bleaching.

October 08, 2009 — Dr. Kenny Broad has been named director of The Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy at the University of Miami.

As part of a mission to catalyze the redevelopment of flood-ravaged New Orleans, world-renowned architect and UCLA distinguished professor Thom Mayne, seven graduate students from the UCLA Department

The University of Plymouth is to showcase its pioneering marine and environmental expertise to one of the world’s most influential research funding bodies.

Christian Braudrick, William Dietrich and their colleagues are the first to build a scaled-down meandering stream in the lab that successfully meanders without straigtening out or turning into braided streams. The substrate is composed of sand to represent real-life gravel; white light-weight plastic for sand, and alfalfa sprouts for deep-rooting vegetation.

New ancient fungus finding suggests world?s forests were wiped out in global catastrophe Scientists believe extinct fungus species capitalised on a world-wide disaster and thrived on early Earth %0A " Under Strict Embargo: Thursday 1 October 2009 12.

Look up a lichen in the name of cleaner air Members of the public sought to help scientists with essential air quality research Press release issued by Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) For immediate use

September 28, 2009 — Miami — El Niño, the periodic eastern Pacific phenomenon credited with shielding the United States and Caribbean from severe hurricane seasons, may be overshadowed by

25. Zurich - ETH Zürich . The "hut of the future" is finished. After about six years on the drawing board - two of which as a student project design - and a construction phase spanning two summers, the New Monte Rosa Hut above Zermatt is finally open for business.

Princeton - Princeton Readings on civil society, diplomacy in the Middle East and ancient Rome have made their way from traditional paper pages to the digital screen for an estimated 50 students who

New research shows small increase in hospital mortality rates in the first week of August Study finds six percent higher mortality rate for people admitted in an emergency on first Wednesday in August, compared with previous week %0A " Under strict embargo until 17.

University of Plymouth scientists are to investigate how ecologically friendly defence technologies can be used to protect the UK's coastline against the effects of climate change. The four year research project forms part of the €8 million THESEUS project which will consider the defence of coastlines across the EU.

New computing tool could lead to better crops and pesticides say researchers Syngenta University Centre at Imperial College London launched today %0A " Imperial College London News Release For Immedi

Goals set to alleviate extreme poverty will not be met unless we address the accelerating rate of biodiversity loss, warn UCL scientists in a paper published in the latest issue of Science .

September 22, 2009 — Coral Gables — The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO) have teamed up to est

Researchers make rare meteorite find using new camera network in Australian desert Meteorite provides new clues about the conditions that existed when the early Solar System was being formed %0A " Imperial College London News Release Under strict embargo for 14.

PA 245/09 A senior US diplomat is visiting The University of Nottingham to find out more about its ground-breaking research on bioenergy and sustainability.