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Brahmaputra - Assam

Opinion: Droughts and floods: India’s water crises demand more than grand projects

06 Jun 2016

Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discusses ways of dealing with the crisis...

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Silver Lake, Wasatch watershed, Utah

Opinion: Paying people to stay away is not always the best way to protect watersheds

24 Dec 2015

Libby Blanchard and Bhaskar Vira from Cambridge's Department of Geography argue that we need to consider alternative approaches in order to protect...

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Fall in the Wasatch Mountains

Alternative ways of protecting urban water supplies must be considered in light of worsening droughts in the US, study claims

04 Dec 2015

Alternative models of watershed protection that balance recreational use and land conservation must no longer be ignored to preserve water supplies...

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Lonely tap

Not a drop to drink

19 Oct 2015

A major research collaboration is looking at how small towns in the hills of India and Nepal are coping with increasing demand for water: who wins...

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Left: a handful of Holopedium from a lake in the Muskoka-Haliburton region of Ontario. Right: a Holopedium up close

Calcium loss turning lakes to ‘jelly’

19 Nov 2014

Declining calcium levels in some North American lakes are causing major depletions of dominant plankton species, enabling the rapid rise of their...

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A Neptune-size planet with a clear atmosphere is shown crossing in front of its star in this artist's depiction

Clear skies on exo-Neptune

24 Sep 2014

Smallest exoplanet ever found to have water vapour

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Highest-precision measurement of water in planet outside the solar system

24 Jul 2014

The discovery of water vapour in the atmospheres of three exoplanets includes the most precise measurement of any chemical in a planet outside the...

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Decline of Bronze Age ‘megacities’ linked to climate change

27 Feb 2014

Climate change may have contributed to the decline of a city-dwelling civilisation in Pakistan and India 4,100 years ago, according to new research.

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Good tidings for coastal communities

23 Oct 2013

The sea sustains life but also threatens it. An innovative design concept by Ed Barsley aims to contend with rising seawater by welcoming it into our...

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Egypt

Climate change: it’s all happened before…

22 Oct 2013

We are not the first to experience environmental change. Does the past have anything to teach us as we search for ways to adapt?

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Testing the water

16 Oct 2013

A new online tool enables users to assess not only how much water we use and for what, but also how we can mitigate future scarcity.

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The Doge's Palace, Canaletto

Sustaining flood-prone Venice

09 Oct 2013

How will regions around the world adapt to an increase in sea levels? A project looking at how Venice can manage its rising waters is a remarkable...

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