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Travelling to a peatland area with the Urarina.

The cultural significance of carbon-storing peatlands to rural communities

21 May 2019

A group of UK and Peruvian researchers have carried out the first detailed study of how rural communities interact with peatlands in the Peruvian...

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‘The greatest director in the world right now’ begins residency at Centre for Film and Screen

04 May 2018

One of Argentina’s and Latin America’s pre-eminent filmmakers begins a 16-day residency at Cambridge’s Centre for Film and Screen from tomorrow (May...

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'Extreme sleepover #19' – Living beside Uruguay’s ‘Mother Dump’

30 Sep 2016

In a new podcast, Patrick O’Hare describes his time with the clasificadores – the families who scavenge Montevideo’s pungent ‘wastescape’ to recover...

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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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What is so unusual about a sloth’s neck?

11 Nov 2015

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

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HMS Beagle sketchbooks added to Cambridge Digital Library

05 Jan 2015

Tiny sketchbooks that bring to life one of the most famous voyages in history have been digitised and made available online for the first time.

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