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Irvine, Calif., Jan. 27, 2021 One of President Joe Biden s first post-inauguration acts was to realign the United States with the Paris climate accord, but a new study led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine demonstrates that rising emissions from human land-use will jeopardize the agreement s goals without substantial changes in agricultural practices.
In a paper published today in
Nature, the team presented the most thorough inventory yet of land-use contributions to carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (including nitrous oxide and methane) from 1961 to 2017, taking into account emissions from agricultural production activities and modifications to the natural landscape.
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Strong Hall on the University of Kansas campus is shown on Sept. 13, 2018.
Hundreds of University of Kansas faculty and staff members are objecting to a new Kansas Board of Regents policy that they say circumvents professional standards and violates the university’s commitments as a member of the American Association of Universities.
On Jan. 20, the Kansas Board of Regents approved a two-year policy that gives university CEOs more power to suspend, dismiss or terminate employees including tenured faculty members in light of the financial crisis many universities face.
A statement signed by more than 550 KU faculty and staff members states that the policy violates two of the three core principles of the Association of American Universities: shared governance and academic freedom. It also bypasses established processes KU already had in place in the instance of declared financial exigency.
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Irvine, Calif., Jan. 25, 2021 Scientists at the University of California, Irvine and NASA s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have for the first time quantified how warming coastal waters are impacting individual glaciers in Greenland s fjords. Their work is the subject of a study published recently in
Science Advances.
Working under the auspices of the Oceans Melting Greenland mission for the past five years, the researchers used ships and aircraft to survey 226 glaciers in all sectors of one of Earth s largest islands. They found that 74 glaciers situated in deep, steep-walled valleys accounted for nearly half of Greenland s total ice loss between 1992 and 2017.
Biden calls time on Trump’s four-year moratorium on truth
Donald Trump will go down in history as the worst United States president ever. In terms of higher education, he will be remembered not only as a president hostile to its fundamental purpose – the pursuit of knowledge – but also as one who failed to leverage the strengths of US universities to make for a better world.
The extent to which the Trump administration leaves a higher education legacy will perhaps best be determined by the shelf life of its meagre policy accomplishments. But the damage done from his four-year moratorium on truth and his unending embrace of nationalism presents a deeper challenge.