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FoI requests show Shell and BP among firms giving funds to institutions which have pledged to divest

FoI requests show Shell and BP among firms giving funds to institutions which have pledged to divest

Campaign group calls for institutions to be accountable via short-term assessments after 59% missed goals

Peter P Edwards, responding to a report about Oxford University’s receipt of money from fossil fuel firms, writes in support of the KACST-Oxford Centre for Petrochemical Research

Figures from oil, gas and petrochemical companies does not include £100m from Ineos in 2021

My father, Peter Iredale, who has died aged 87, was the last director of the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s Harwell laboratory in Oxfordshire, a pioneering institute that housed Europe’s first nuclear reactor.

Want to lower your environmental impact? Go vegan. That's one idea researchers uncovered in what The Guardian described as the most comprehensive analysis thus far of farming's impact on Earth. University of Oxford scientist...

Adélie penguin populations have been declining in Antarctica — at least, that's what scientists thought. An international team recently discovered a mega-colony of over 1.5 million penguins on the Danger Islands, according...

Adélie penguin populations have been declining in Antarctica — at least, that's what scientists thought. An international team recently discovered a supercolony of over 1.5 million penguins on the Danger Islands, according...

From Eurekalert Public Release: 14-Jul-2017 University of Oxford The world’s most indestructible species, the tardigrade, an eight-legged micro-animal, also known as the water bear, will survive until the Sun dies,...

Bacteria are often associated with disease - but in the future they could serve as a potent power source. University of Oxford researchers recently used bacteria to spin rotors in tiny 'wind farms' - and they think these...

Institutions with endowments worth £115m are withdrawing their investments from fossil fuels ahead of crunch UN climate talks in Paris

Oxford University is afraid of making what is a simple moral choice. It fears offending the energy companies that fills its coffers directly or indirectly

Oxford University is afraid of making what is a simple moral choice. It fears offending the energy companies that fills its coffers directly or indirectly

Flying cars belong more in a Jetson's episode than in real life, right? Wrong, flying cars are here, but will they take off? The Indigenous People's Technology and Education Center (I-TEC), an organization in Ecuador started...