Scientists discover new species of fungus in 407-million-year-old plant fossil from Scotland
12 Nov 2025An ancient plant-fungus partnership has been revealed using advanced microscopy imaging, providing evidence of the mutually beneficial relationship...
From gridlock to grid power: how to get renewable energy where it’s needed in the UK
11 Nov 2025The UK’s drive to net zero won’t succeed on wind turbines and solar farms alone. The real bottleneck is moving that clean electricity from remote...
Cambridge PVC Prof Bhaskar Vira in new documentary on India’s environment
10 Nov 2025Just in time for COP30, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Education and Environmental Sustainability plays a key role in a new documentary about India’s...
Cambridge spinout secures funding to accelerate breakthrough in solar energy
06 Nov 2025Cambridge Photon Technology (CPT), a deep-tech spinout from the University of Cambridge, has raised £1.6 million to commercialise a technology that...
Making Climate Finance Work
04 Nov 2025Two Cambridge partners are launching a new open access journal that will feature articles by academics and expert practitioners on corporate climate...
A course for climate justice
31 Oct 2025The University of Cambridge is reimagining how education can drive the transformation needed to confront the climate crisis and global inequalities.
Changemakers: Chris Sandbrook and the Conservation Research Institute
31 Oct 2025Meet Chris Sandbrook: a conservation social scientist and Director of the Conservation Research Institute.
Food and the long-term risk to life: How your dinner affects 30,875 species
30 Oct 2025Cambridge researchers have developed a new way to measure the impact of food production on the long-term survival of other species around the world.
Sustainable Spreadsheets
29 Oct 2025The Centre for Climate Engagement (CCE) at Hughes Hall, Cambridge, is bringing academic rigour to help directors, investors, and accounting bodies...
UK Govt appoints Emily Shuckburgh as Chief Scientific Adviser to DESNZ
22 Oct 2025The UK Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has appointed Cambridge Zero Director Professor Emily Shuckburgh CBE as the Department’s...
Locking carbon in trees and soils could ‘stabilise climate for centuries’ if combined with underground storage
15 Oct 2025Research on a ‘portfolio approach’ to carbon removal enables firms to mix expensive tech-based solutions that inject carbon deep underground with...
Cambridge-led coalition to seed £500m fossil-free cash investment fund
14 Oct 2025A Cambridge-led coalition of UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) has selected asset manager Amundi Investment Solutions to create a cash fund...