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Factories with smoke under cloudy sky

Cambridge-authored book explores how artificial intelligence could help address climate change

30 Aug 2021

Humanity is facing two existential threats. The first: uncontrolled CO2 emissions irreversibly changing the climate. The second: a hostile artificial...

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Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence

Can federated learning save the world?

10 May 2021

Training the artificial intelligence models that underpin web search engines, power smart assistants and enable driverless cars, consumes megawatts...

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The Khone waterfall, Mekong River

Muddying the waters: rock breakdown may play less of a role in regulating climate than previously thought

21 Dec 2020

The weathering of rocks at the Earth’s surface may remove less greenhouse gas from the atmosphere than previous estimates indicated, says new...

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Strategic partner: Rolls-Royce

16 Dec 2019

Researchers at Cambridge are working with Rolls-Royce to make aeroengines greener.

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Green-sky thinking for propulsion and power

04 Dec 2019

A rapid way of turning ideas into new technologies in the aviation and power industries has been developed at Cambridge’s Whittle Laboratory. Here...

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Cambridge Zero

26 Nov 2019

If we are to avert a climate disaster, we must sharply reduce our emissions, starting today. Cambridge Zero, the University's ambitious new climate...

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Vegetables

Removing beef and lamb from menu dramatically reduces food-related carbon emissions at Cambridge University

10 Sep 2019

A Sustainable Food Policy at the University of Cambridge, which includes removing beef and lamb from the menu and promoting plant-based food options...

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The ‘brain’ that’s helping reduce carbon emissions

06 Aug 2018

From their base halfway across the globe in Singapore, Cambridge researchers are working with colleagues from around the world to reduce carbon...

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ISS013-E-24184 (23 May 2006) --- Eruption of Cleveland Volcano, Aleutian Islands, Alaska is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 13 crewmember on the International Space Station.

Link identified between continental breakup, volcanic carbon emissions and evolution

20 Jul 2017

Researchers have found that the formation and breakup of supercontinents over hundreds of millions of years controls volcanic carbon emissions. The...

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Robots and carbon targets may signal the end of globalisation

17 May 2017

A new book suggests there is early evidence of a coming U-turn in the globalisation of manufacturing – and that the story we are told about the...

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Tagebau / Open cast mine

Opinion: Worthless mining waste could suck CO₂ out of the atmosphere and reverse emissions

20 Apr 2017

Could waste material from mining be used to trap CO 2 emissions? A new £8.6 million research programme will investigate the possibilities. Simon...

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Carbon dioxide can be stored underground for ten times the length needed to avoid climatic impact

28 Jul 2016

Study of natural-occurring 100,000 year-old CO2 reservoirs shows no significant corroding of ‘cap rock’, suggesting the greenhouse gas hasn’t leaked...

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