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Life on Earth is at risk from an unprecedented rate of environmental change that threatens the natural resources on which we depend.

bananas

How your dinner affects 30,875 species

30 Oct 2025

Cambridge researchers have developed a new way to measure the impact of food production on the long-term survival of other species around the world.

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Pangolins in West Africa hunted for food rather than for illicit scales trade

13 Jun 2025

Research finds that appetite for bushmeat – rather than the black market for scales to use in traditional Chinese medicine – may be driving West...

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misty mountain scene

To save nature, AI needs our help

07 May 2025

Researchers at Cambridge are leading conversations to make sure we embrace AI with eyes wide open.

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Chicory growing on unused land in Cleveland, USA.

Growing wildflowers on disused urban land can damage bee health

16 Apr 2025

Wildflowers growing on land previously used for buildings and factories can accumulate lead, arsenic and other metal contaminants from the soil...

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Herd of European bison in the snow

Conservation efforts are bringing species back from the brink

18 Mar 2025

A major review of over 67,000 animal species has found that while the natural world continues to face a biodiversity crisis, targeted conservation...

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Researcher interviewing a local woman in India

Wildlife monitoring technologies used to intimidate and spy on women, study finds

25 Nov 2024

Camera traps and drones deployed by government authorities to monitor a forest in India are infringing on the privacy and rights of local women.

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Image of a forest

New long-term collaboration with Suzano begins with a £10 million donation to support conservation and sustainability education and research

15 Nov 2024

Suzano, one the world’s largest producers of bio-based raw materials, based in São Paulo, Brazil, establishes a long-term initiative with Jesus...

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Planet earth

Cambridge is forging a future for our planet

21 Oct 2024

Find out how Cambridge's pioneering research in climate and nature is regenerating nature, rewiring energy, rethinking transport and redefining...

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Jack Ashby talking to the Museum's fin whale

Public invited to chat to museum animals in novel AI experiment

14 Oct 2024

Specimens in a Cambridge museum will be brought to life through the power of Artificial Intelligence, by a team aiming to strengthen our connection...

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Cairngorms landscape.

Return to the wild

12 Oct 2024

Ambitious collaborations are bringing biodiversity back to the Scottish Highlands.

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Panel members from CCI and CISL discuss the upcoming COP16

Cambridge conservation and sustainable business leaders prepare for COP16

11 Oct 2024

The Cambridge Conservation Initiative and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) co-hosted a panel discussion...

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