Climate change

Dr Chris Hope’s PAGE2002 model has been used worldwide to calculate the true cost of climate change.

We are not the first to experience environmental change. Does the past have anything to teach us as we search for ways to adapt?

Too little attention is being paid to the long-term sustainability of new buildings in a changing climate according to a new study that makes...

Instead of harming the economies of developing countries, carbon offsets and taxes on shipping and aviation would have a minimal or even a positive...

Human activity is currently a bigger threat to mangroves, and the natural defences they provide against storm surges and other coastal disasters, than...

Hard-engineered sea walls have a limited life span. Could saltmarshes and mangroves offer a different approach to buffering against storm surges and...

With the world’s population already estimated to be over seven billion and rising fast, the challenge of how to produce enough food has never been...

A community-driven modelling effort aims to quantify one of the gravest of global uncertainties: the impact of global warming on the world’s food...

Study successfully reconstructed temperature from the deep sea to reveal how global ice volume has varied over the glacial-interglacial cycles of the...

Research provides new insights about what caused the extinction of many of the world’s big animals over the last 100,000 years.

In the eleventh of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, glaciologists Dr Ian Willis and Alison Banwell watch as a lake disappears...

A film documenting the disappearing oral traditions of the northernmost settled people on Earth offers a glimpse into how their way of life is...