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Ancient lessons for a modern challenge

The seat of the Khmer Empire in Cambodia mysteriously collapsed in the 15th century. Now a University of Cambridge Gates Scholar has pieced together its climate history and put forward a compelling new theory to explain its demise.

Food security: your questions answered

Over the past month, the University of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century - how to guarantee enough food, fairly, for the world's rapidly expanding population. As part of this, we asked whether you had a question that you wanted us to answer, and put them to a panel of academics who specialise in research to do with food security. Here's what they had to say. Thanks to everyone who sent questions in!

Placing water into the picture for climate change

As World Water Week, an annual week-long global conference on water provision and sustainability, begins in Stockholm, Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown explains how the world needs to prepare for the consequences climate change is likely to have on people's access to this vital resource.

Foreseer of future resources

An online tool will help users predict trade-offs between the global commodities of energy, water and land.

Cambridge Ideas – Just Add Water

Rotifers are tiny animals that survive against all the odds.

Safe water solutions

Research across the University is helping to clean up water in regions around the world.

BioBullets mussel in on water mains

Pipes blocked by an invasion of freshwater mussels pose a severe problem to the water industry. A tiny, fat-coated capsule could provide the answer.