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Mount Grammos, Greece

Snow cover on Greek mountains has more than halved in four decades, study finds

30 Apr 2026

Snow cover in the mountains of Greece – an important water source for communities, agriculture and natural ecosystems during the dry summer months –...

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Ice shelves in the Bellinghausen Sea, Antarctica

Deep-ocean heat has been marching closer to Antarctica, study reveals

28 Apr 2026

A decades-long study of oceanographic data provides the first evidence that deep-ocean heat has moved closer to Antarctica, threatening the fragile...

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Fire in the Brazilian Amazon

Deforestation policies are failing to protect against a potentially bigger threat to the Brazilian Amazon

27 Apr 2026

Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon since 2019, he works...

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Students at the 2026 Conference.

Helping young conservationists plug in and shine bright

14 Apr 2026

The Student Conference in Conservation Science has connected thousands of young conservationists determined to tackle the biodiversity crisis - and...

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Erwin Reisner (L) and Kay Kwarteng (R)

Researchers turn recovered car battery acid and plastic waste into clean hydrogen

06 Apr 2026

Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle forms of plastic waste – such as drinks bottles, nylon textiles and...

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Contrails against a blue sky

Changing flight paths could slash aviation’s climate impact, study suggests

18 Mar 2026

Small changes to aircraft flight paths to avoid the atmospheric conditions that create condensation trails – known as contrails – could reduce...

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Reed bunting, Emberiza schoeniclus, perched in reedbed.

Flood tolerant wetland crops could also support nature recovery, finds new research

12 Mar 2026

Research led by the University of Cambridge and the RSPB shows that farming wetland-adapted crops on wetter peat - known as paludiculture - can...

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Super Typhoon Yagi, 2024

Promise the Earth: why real climate action means restraint

06 Feb 2026

A new book by a Cambridge engineer and an Oxford theologian argues that our faith in technology to solve the climate crisis is distracting us from...

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Photo of the Lund University library

Sustainability starts with knowledge

19 Dec 2025

Nearly 300 leading academics from the University of Cambridge and Lund University from wide-ranging disciplines put their heads together in Sweden...

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 Catalan Atlas showing the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea, 1375

Volcanic eruptions set off a chain of events that brought the Black Death to Europe

04 Dec 2025

Clues contained in tree rings have identified mid-14th-century volcanic activity as the first domino to fall in a sequence that led to the...

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Photo of the Para River near Belem, Brazil

Cambridge at COP 30

14 Nov 2025

Cambridge is at COP 30 in Belém, Brazil to put its observer status to good use, champion youth voices, promote better education for all, defend...

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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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