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2 Universities get multi-million dollar grants to study impact of cow flatulents



[Note: Perhaps saving the planet may not be the real motivation! ] Excerpt: A multi-million pound grant has been awarded to help forge an alliance between two Welsh universities working on problems posed by climate change. The Welsh Assembly Government's £23.5m investment will support a £55m project bringing together scientists at Aberystwyth and Bangor. The two universities are already working together studying the impact flatulent cows have on global warming.

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The funding will pay for buildings and facilities for research and teaching. New scientific and management posts at both Aberystwyth and Bangor will be created as well. The money will be spent by the newly formed Institute for Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (Ibers) at Aberystwyth and the College of Natural Sciences at Bangor University. The alliance between the two will deliver the largest group of biological, environmental and rural scientists in the UK and makes them major global competitors, claims the assembly government.

Boost for global warming research

Ibers formed out of a merger announced in May last year A multi-million pound grant has been awarded to help forge an alliance between two Welsh universities working on problems posed by climate change. The Welsh Assembly Government's £23.5m investment will support a £55m project bringing together scientists at Aberystwyth and Bangor. The two universities are already working together studying the impact flatulent cows have on global warming. The funding will pay for buildings and facilities for research and teaching. New scientific and management posts at both Aberystwyth and Bangor will be created as well. The money will be spent by the newly formed Institute for Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (Ibers) at Aberystwyth and the College of Natural Sciences at Bangor University. This investment by the assembly government and the research council will help us understand and tackle those grand challenges More...


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