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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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Offshore wind turbines

From gridlock to grid power: how to get renewable energy where it’s needed in the UK

11 Nov 2025

The UK’s drive to net zero won’t succeed on wind turbines and solar farms alone. The real bottleneck is moving that clean electricity from remote...

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Locking carbon in trees and soils could ‘stabilise climate for centuries’ if combined with underground storage

15 Oct 2025

Research on a ‘portfolio approach’ to carbon removal enables firms to mix expensive tech-based solutions that inject carbon deep underground with...

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Solar-powered method lights the way to a ‘de-fossilised’ chemical industry

10 Oct 2025

Researchers have demonstrated a new and sustainable way to make the chemicals that are the basis of thousands of products – from plastics to...

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Finding solutions to a warming climate

12 Aug 2025

As the world grapples with rising temperatures and the challenge this brings, a Mastercard Foundation Scholar has devised a novel way of keeping...

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A Cambridge legal expert on the ICJ's landmark climate opinion

24 Jul 2025

A Cambridge professor and counsel team member for Vanuatu gives his initial views on the ICJ Advisory Opinion.

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Extreme drought contributed to barbarian invasion of late Roman Britain, tree-ring study reveals

17 Apr 2025

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the ‘Barbarian Conspiracy’, a pivotal moment in the history of Roman Britain, a new Cambridge-led...

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Cambridge is shaping AI for everyone

07 Apr 2025

Explore how Cambridge is using AI for better healthcare, smarter public services and new ways of tackling climate change. Meet our community and...

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Turbocharging the race to protect nature and climate with AI

06 Apr 2025

Rebalancing the planet must happen faster. Cambridge researchers are using AI to help.

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Anil Madhavapeddy

AI can help us heal the planet

04 Apr 2025

AI can do in seconds what might take a team of experts a year. This is why we must harness it to reverse the damage we’ve done to the planet. Anil...

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Emissions-free flying takes off at Cambridge Climate Challenge

03 Apr 2025

A biology PhD candidate and an early career aerospace engineer researcher won the 2025 Cambridge Zero Climate Challenge for turning waste into...

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Richard Turner

Opinion: AI can democratise weather forecasting

01 Apr 2025

AI will give us the next leap forward in forecasting the weather, says Richard Turner, and make it available to all countries, not just those with...

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