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Archaeologists in Rakafet cave, Israel

The bones of the matter: caves, conversation and cup cakes

01 Nov 2011

A discussion tomorrow will bring together some of the eminent archaeologists who studied at Cambridge in the 1960s and 1970s and went on to forge...

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Ghana forest

Sparing or sharing? Protecting wild species may require growing more food on less land

02 Sep 2011

Separating land for nature and land for crops may be the best way to meet increased food demand with the least impact on wild species.

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Irish tenants are evicted and their homes torn down under the supervision of troops

Whose fault is famine? What the world failed to learn from 1840s Ireland

19 Jul 2011

A new book by a Cambridge University academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. The Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible...

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Chocolate-backed Kingfisher

Farming and the fate of wild nature

19 Jul 2011

As the drive to increase food production gathers pace, conservation scientists suggest that reconciling food security with protecting biodiversity...

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Vegetables in whole food market.

The future of food: your chance to ask the experts

04 Jul 2011

How can we feed the world’s expanding population? Should we be using GM technologies more to boost the yield of our crops? How will global warming...

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