Environment

Team members from Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge, RAF and TUDCI  Photos show: Front row from left to right: Dr Isabelle Steinke (TUDCI), Dr Shaun Fitzgerald (CCRC), Sir David King (CCRC), Professo

Refreeze the Arctic Foundation funds marine cloud brightening research

28 Feb 2023

The Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge and Refreeze the Arctic Foundation (RAF) signed a multi-year agreement to fund research methods for...

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Pheasant

Voluntary UK initiatives to phase out toxic lead shot for pheasant hunting have had little impact

27 Feb 2023

Three 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...

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David Rose

#CamFest Speaker Spotlight: Dr David Rose

24 Feb 2023

The second in a series of interviews with some of the key speakers at the Cambridge Festival. David Rose is Professor of Sustainable Agricultural...

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‘Antisocial’ damselfish are scaring off cleaner fish customers – and this could contribute to coral reef breakdown

23 Feb 2023

Damselfish have been discovered to disrupt ‘cleaning services’ vital to the health of reefs. And climate change may mean this is only likely to get...

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Louisa Michael in the lab at Boeing

The future of flying

16 Feb 2023

Cambridge 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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Turkey earthquake – a glimpse of the ECHO assessment

Cambridge engineer to co-lead earthquake reconnaissance mission to Turkey

13 Feb 2023

Professor Emily So will lead a UK response to uncover the causes of the extensive damage and loss of life

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Full moon over the Greenland Ice Sheet

Researchers build more detailed picture of the movement of Greenland Ice Sheet

10 Feb 2023

Researchers have found that the movement of glaciers in Greenland is more complex than previously thought, with deformation in regions of warmer ice...

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Cambridge Festival launches extensive programme for 2023

10 Feb 2023

Could a new theory of the Universe be Stephen Hawking’s biggest legacy? How has popular music addressed political conflict? Are the big tech firms...

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Wheat crops being sprayed with fertiliser

Carbon emissions from fertilisers could be reduced by as much as 80% by 2050

09 Feb 2023

Researchers have calculated the carbon footprint for the full life cycle of fertilisers, which are responsible for approximately five percent of...

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Person checking barley in field

Cambridge-led consortium receives $35m to boost crop production sustainably in sub-Saharan Africa

31 Jan 2023

A Cambridge-led consortium has received US$35m (£28m) over five years to develop sustainable solutions to increasing the yields of small-scale...

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Small-scale octopus fisheries can provide sustainable source of vital nutrients for tropical coastal communities

26 Jan 2023

Undernourished coastal communities in the tropics - where children’s growth can be stunted by a lack of micronutrients – can get the vitamins and...

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Cambridge festival science demonstration.

First look at Cambridge Festival 2023

17 Jan 2023

Hot topics this year include an in-depth look at how we move from global risks to global safety, results from the largest four-day working week trial...

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