Nutritious fish stocks are being squandered by salmon farming, say scientists
01 Mar 2022Eating wild-caught fish instead of using it as feed in salmon farming would allow nearly four million tonnes of fish to be left in the sea, while...
Accelerating melt rate makes Greenland Ice Sheet world’s largest ‘dam’
21 Feb 2022The world’s second-largest ice sheet is melting from the bottom up – and generating huge amounts of heat from hydropower.
Cambridge researchers to tackle major threats to 'UK’s vegetable garden'
15 Feb 2022Cambridge researchers will tackle environmental threats that could affect a third of England’s home-grown vegetables and more than a quarter of the...
Historic buildings could use solar panels to protect from rising energy costs
03 Feb 2022Installing solar panels could help historic buildings beat the rising costs of energy, according to a new study.
UK plants flowering a month earlier due to climate change
02 Feb 2022Climate change is causing plants in the UK to flower a month earlier on average, which could have profound consequences for wildlife, agriculture and...
Invasive species ‘hitchhiking’ on ships threaten Antarctica’s ecosystems
10 Jan 2022Marine life hitching a ride on ocean-crossing ships poses a threat to Antarctica’s pristine ecosystems, with the potential for invasive species to...
The Lost Words: a ‘spell book’ that closes the gap between childhood and nature
01 Jan 2022The Lost Words is a book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris that summons the magic of nature to help children find, love and protect the natural...
Controlled burning of natural environments could help offset our carbon emissions
23 Dec 2021Planting trees and suppressing wildfires do not necessarily maximise the carbon storage of natural ecosystems. A new study has found that prescribed...
Arctic Ocean started getting warmer decades earlier than we thought
24 Nov 2021The Arctic Ocean has been getting warmer since the beginning of the 20th century – decades earlier than records suggest – due to warmer water flowing...
Cambridge-built carbon credit marketplace will support reforestation
10 Nov 2021A new Cambridge centre will bring together computer scientists and conservation scientists to build a trusted marketplace for carbon credits and...
Pangolin trafficking: Iceberg tip of Nigeria's illegal trade revealed
04 Nov 2021New findings on Nigerian-linked pangolin seizures suggest that current global estimates for trafficking of the animal are far too small, say...
Hungry caterpillars an underappreciated driver of carbon emissions
03 Nov 2021A study led by the University of Cambridge has found that periodic mass outbreaks of leaf-munching caterpillars can improve the water quality of...