A brave new world

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The environmental group Higher Education 21 are working on a project in conjunction with 25 UK universities. The majority of the universities with an interest in environmental issues are the more modern establishments. The main focus of the project is to help the universities use energy supplies from sustainable sources, reduce the use of resources and to teach their students about environmental issues. The government funds the Higher Education 21 group as part of its Forum for the Future initiative. The National Union of Students is focusing on environmental issues during 1998.

United Kingdom, Universities and colleges, Schools, Environmental policy

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Science by press release

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Some British scientists have proclaimed their support for genetically modified (GM) food and refute allegations that such food has adverse health implications. Access is being sought to the data of researcher Arpad Pusztai, whose experiments reportedly showed that GM potatoes produced an adverse health effect in laboratory rats. Some scientists claim the results may be due to other causes, while others claim research is being suppressed because of the potential impact on the biotechnology industry. Environmental organizations have called for GM crops to be frozen for five years.

Health aspects, Research, Biotechnology industry, Biotechnology industries, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Genetically modified plants, Biotechnologists

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Why talk of risk is full of hazards

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The Royal Society will hold a conference on risk on Mar. 18, 1997, five years after the launch of a report attempting to bridge the gap between supposedly objective risk and admittedly subjective risk descended into a bitter squabble between engineers and social scientists. Meeting organiser John Ashworth, chief executive of the British Library, argues that there is a need for dialogue between social scientists and pure scientists. Engineers calculate risk from statistics and totally reject social scientists' insistence that objective and subjective risk cannot be separated.

Risk assessment, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge

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