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Green lego

Water waste! Manufacturers look to go green

22 Jul 2013

Programme launched to revolutionise green credentials of UK manufacturing

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Pygmy mole cricket

Forget walking… tiny insect jumps on water

03 Dec 2012

Footage shows how a little creature propels itself off water.

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Bacterial pigments

New test to detect arsenic contamination in drinking water

01 Jun 2012

An economical and easy-to-use biosensor could reduce the chance of being poisoned by arsenic – a common contaminant of wells in parts of Asia.

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Angkor Wat Sunrise.

Ancient lessons for a modern challenge

20 Jan 2012

The seat of the Khmer Empire in Cambodia mysteriously collapsed in the 15th century. Now a University of Cambridge Gates Scholar has pieced together...

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Vegetables

Food security: your questions answered

31 Aug 2011

Over the past month, the University of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – how...

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Douglas Crawford-Brown.

Placing water into the picture for climate change

22 Aug 2011

As World Water Week, an annual week-long global conference on water provision and sustainability, begins in Stockholm, Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown...

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The Foreseer tool is based on Sankey diagrams, where the width of each line is proportional to the quantity of resource

Foreseer of future resources

20 Jul 2011

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

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Water

Cambridge Ideas - Just Add Water

11 Nov 2010

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Water clarity improvement after filtration

Safe water solutions

01 Nov 2010

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

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David Aldridge

BioBullets mussel in on water mains

01 Jan 2010

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...

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