A score for sustainability: Cambridge University football teams step out in recycled kit
13 Mar 2023The men’s and women’s teams will tackle their annual Varsity matches in football kits made from 2,500 plastic bottles.
Remarkable squirting mussels captured on film
11 Mar 2023Cambridge researchers have observed a highly unusual behaviour in the endangered freshwater mussel, Unio crassus.
A King, a climate change book for kids and Cambridge Zero
09 Mar 2023Cambridge Zero Director Professor Emily Shuckburgh, King Charles and Natural England Chair Tony Juniper have co-authored a new book on climate change...
Celebrating the Cambridge Women Changing the World
08 Mar 2023To mark International Women's Day and Women's History Month, the University is delighted to shine a light on some of the incredible women living and...
Phone-based measurements provide fast, accurate information about the health of forests
07 Mar 2023Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses computer vision techniques to accurately measure trees almost five times faster than traditional...
Social media posts around solar geoengineering ‘spill over’ into conspiracy theories
28 Feb 2023Researchers from the University of Cambridge have analysed more than 800,000 tweets and found that negative emotions expressed about geoengineering...
Refreeze the Arctic Foundation funds marine cloud brightening research
28 Feb 2023The Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge and Refreeze the Arctic Foundation (RAF) signed a multi-year agreement to fund research methods for...
Voluntary UK initiatives to phase out toxic lead shot for pheasant hunting have had little impact
27 Feb 2023Three years into a five-year pledge to completely phase out lead shot in UK game hunting, a Cambridge study finds that 94% of pheasants on sale for...
#CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr David Rose
24 Feb 2023The second in a series of interviews with some of the key speakers at the Cambridge Festival. David Rose is Professor of Sustainable Agricultural...
‘Antisocial’ damselfish are scaring off cleaner fish customers – and this could contribute to coral reef breakdown
23 Feb 2023Damselfish have been discovered to disrupt ‘cleaning services’ vital to the health of reefs. And climate change may mean this is only likely to get...
The future of flying
16 Feb 2023Cambridge and Boeing have been working together for 20 years. Today they are combining their research strengths and industry know-how to speed...
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Cambridge engineer to co-lead earthquake reconnaissance mission to Turkey
13 Feb 2023Professor Emily So will lead a UK response to uncover the causes of the extensive damage and loss of life