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Degraded coral reef 'rubblefield' in Indonesia.

Lack of evidence hampers progress on corporate-led ecosystem restoration

08 Sep 2023

A near total lack of transparency is making it impossible to assess the quality of corporate-led ecosystem restoration projects, a new study finds...

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Mangrove ready to be planted

Cambridge researchers lead policy briefing on Nature-based Solutions for the climate and biodiversity crises

30 Apr 2021

As societies face the triple challenge of avoiding the worst effects of climate change, protecting remaining biodiversity and improving human...

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Ecosystems Overload

10 Dec 2019

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...

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Illuminating the hidden kingdom of the truffle

12 Feb 2018

Truffles are one of the world’s most expensive ingredients, and also one of the most mysterious. Now, with the help of a 170-year-old ‘living...

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Birds learn from each other’s ‘disgust’, enabling insects to evolve bright colours

18 Dec 2017

A new study of TV-watching great tits reveals how they learn through observation. Social interactions within a predator species can have “...

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Biggest library of bat sounds compiled to track biodiversity

14 Apr 2016

Researchers have compiled the largest known library of bat calls to identify and conserve rare species in Mexico – a country which is home to many of...

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Dorsal view of adult Dixa BM, BL, median and lateral bands on the scutum

What's the point of midges - and how do you stop them biting?

26 Aug 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, M is for...

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Left: a handful of Holopedium from a lake in the Muskoka-Haliburton region of Ontario. Right: a Holopedium up close

Calcium loss turning lakes to ‘jelly’

19 Nov 2014

Declining calcium levels in some North American lakes are causing major depletions of dominant plankton species, enabling the rapid rise of their...

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Mountain forest mist

Does it help conservation to put a price on nature?

30 Oct 2014

Assigning an economic value to the benefits which nature provides might not always promote the conservation of biodiversity, and in some cases may...

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West Summerland Key Mangrove Ecosystem, Florida Keys

Putting a value on what nature does for us

11 Sep 2014

Interactive online tool allows the value of an ecosystem to be calculated, and allows users to determine how altering a habitat can affect its...

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Isfjord, Ilulissat, Diskobay, West Greenland

Lakes discovered beneath Greenland Ice Sheet

28 Nov 2013

The subglacial lakes are the first to be identified in Greenland.

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Taraxacum seed head

Cambridge to develop new Conservation Research Institute

20 Sep 2013

The development of a new Conservation Research Institute will be the latest addition to a flourishing conservation community in Cambridge.

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