British military beckons environmental researchers
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The UK's Ministry of Defense (MoD) and the Natural Environmental Research Council are implementing a new project, Joining Forces for the Environment, intended to assist environmental researchers by allowing them to use the military's facilities, equipment and manpower. The project, announced by ranking MoD scientist Sir Ron Oxburgh in Jul 1992, will set up procedures under which researchers can request aid or permission to work on the more than 600,000 acres of sometimes pristine MoD land. Researchers are hailing the project despite being mystified as to what motivated it.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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Academy's letter to Russian raises issue of political views
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The National Academy of Sciences has requested foreign associate member and Russian mathematician Igor Shafarevich to ponder resigning because of his antisemitism. Academy president Frank Press and foreign secretary James Wyngaarden invited Shafarevich to leave in a Jul 16, 1992 letter because of antisemitic opinions he expressed in his 1982 book 'Russophobia' and because he opposed the appointment of qualified Jewish mathematicians at Moscow's Steklov Institute which he formerly directed and where he now leads the algebra department.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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Power company leaves environmental legacy
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Privatization of Britain's Central Electricity Generating Board utility allowed environmental researchers to acquire $3.1 million worth of equipment, but the new private utility, National Power, dismayed researchers by closing one of the largest acid rain laboratories. This decision was part of National Power's phasing out of all research not directly linked to producing electricity. Many environmental researchers criticized the British government's unwillingness to increase its spending on research to offset these cutbacks.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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