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‘Extreme Sleepover #11' – moulins and meltwater on the Greenland ice sheet
In the eleventh of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, glaciologists Dr Ian Willis and Alison Banwell watch as a lake disappears before their eyes.
Cambridge Ideas: This Icy World
Cambridge University glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions.
Cambridge Ideas – How Many Lightbulbs?
Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, in a passionate, personal analysis of the energy crisis in the UK, in which he comes to some surprising conclusions about the way forward.
Calls for a global nuclear renaissance in new study
Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London today outlined a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear energy. Their research was published in the latest issue of the journalScience.
BP gift endows new professorship in earth sciences
BP and the University of Cambridge have joined forces to create a new professorship in Earth Sciences.
New kids on the block
The negotiating styles of the world’s biggest rising powers – China, India and Brazil – could offer important clues about any future challenge they may pose to international stability, a new study suggests.
Green energy from algae
Visitors to this year’s Royal Society Summer Exhibition will have a chance to discover how scientists from the University of Cambridge are studying ways to harness algae as a renewable energy source.
Detection of huge carbon burp that helped end ice age
Scientists have found the possible source of a huge carbon dioxide ‘burp’ that happened some 18,000 years ago and which helped to end the last ice age.
