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Life on Earth is at risk from an unprecedented rate of environmental change that threatens the natural resources on which we depend.

Planet earth

Cambridge is forging a future for our planet

21 Oct 2024

Find out how Cambridge's pioneering research in climate and nature is regenerating nature, rewiring energy, rethinking transport and redefining...

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Jack Ashby talking to the Museum's fin whale

Public invited to chat to museum animals in novel AI experiment

14 Oct 2024

Specimens in a Cambridge museum will be brought to life through the power of Artificial Intelligence, by a team aiming to strengthen our connection...

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Cairngorms landscape.

Return to the wild

12 Oct 2024

Ambitious collaborations are bringing biodiversity back to the Scottish Highlands.

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Panel members from CCI and CISL discuss the upcoming COP16

Cambridge conservation and sustainable business leaders prepare for COP16

11 Oct 2024

The Cambridge Conservation Initiative and the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) co-hosted a panel discussion...

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Scottish highlands.

How to restore a landscape

09 Oct 2024

Inside the programme protecting Europe's land, sea and species.

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Przewalski’s horses, by Neil Aldridge

Wild horses

09 Oct 2024

Meet the team reintroducing large herbivores to the coldest place in Spain.

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William Sutherland

A man with a big idea

05 Oct 2024

With up to one million species facing extinction, Professor William Sutherland is using what he knows to help stop biodiversity loss. Because nature...

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Photo of Sir David Attenborough on a visit to Cambridge Conservation Research Initiative

Sir David Attenborough's 'joy' on visit to Cambridge Conservation Initiative

27 Sep 2024

Sir David Attenborough spoke of how he feels during visits to the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) when he stopped by the CCI conservation...

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Partula tohiveana snail in the wild

‘Extinct’ snails found breeding in French Polynesia

26 Sep 2024

A species of tropical tree snail is no longer extinct in the wild following a successful reintroduction project.

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Highly-sensitive beaks could help albatrosses and penguins find their food

18 Sep 2024

Researchers have discovered that seabirds, including penguins and albatrosses, have highly-sensitive regions in their beaks that could be used to...

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The mink must go: ending a catastrophic UK invasion

13 Aug 2024

Many have said it's an impossible task. But a new approach is astonishing scientists by clearing the UK of destructive American mink - the lasting...

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Man (seringueiro) extracts latex from a tree in the middle of the Amazon.

A new way of thinking about the economy could help protect the Amazon, and help its people thrive

06 Aug 2024

To protect the Amazon and support the wellbeing of its people, its economy needs to shift from environmentally harmful production to a model built...

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