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Cambridge University has committed to dramatically reducing its carbon footprint. But making a meaningful difference will involve tackling the...

A children’s book by Sandi Toksvig is the one millionth item to take its place in the University Library’s Ely storage facility.

Tensions between foreign climbers and Sherpas began over 200 years ago, a new study suggests

Around 90% of the resources we process to create goods are not reaching the person for whom they are made. How can we make manufacturing more...

While the carbon footprint of the meat industry may be clear, the proposition of eating less beef and lamb is fueling heated debate. If widespread...

Medieval Greenlanders may have chased dwindling walrus herds ever farther north in an effort to maintain their economy, when the value of walrus...

Handwritten verses from a nineteenth-century Cambridgeshire poet – who died destitute despite royal patronage – have been saved by Cambridge...

We are laying waste to the biosphere. If we're serious about saving millions of species, then it's our own that must change how it thinks about...