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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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Opinion: Why policymakers should care about location

08 Mar 2019

What account should policymaking take of the notion of 'place' – the landscapes, cities and towns we inhabit, with all the opportunities and...

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Unsplash

Study identifies key challenges when communicating potential policies

14 Jun 2018

Cambridge researchers set out to define a new science for policy communications, with ambitions of finding the “Goldilocks zone” between too much and...

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“A girl without education is nothing in the world”

02 Feb 2017

Half the children in Africa miss out on school and basic learning as a result of poverty, gender or disability. While major efforts are being made to...

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'Extreme sleepover #18' – rebuilding earthquake-shattered Christchurch

22 Sep 2016

Kristen MacAskill describes how an earthquake in her hometown served to influence her career as an engineer.

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A British army sergeant visits a school in Helmand, Afghanistan.

Opinion: How the British military became a champion for language learning

06 Jun 2016

Wendy Ayres-Bennett (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics) discusses the impact of the military's new language policy.

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Merkel took a hit at the polls but so have most other European leaders.

Opinion: German election: is this really a verdict on Merkel’s open door to refugees?

15 Mar 2016

Katharina Karcher (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages) discusses Germany's regional elections, which saw major gains made by the right-wing...

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Shanghai by Night

Opinion: G20 finance chiefs meet as China seeks to make a show of its presidency

29 Feb 2016

Peter Wiliamson (Cambridge Judge Business School) discusses the meeting of G20 finance chiefs and the Chinese economy.

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English actor John Liston as the title character in John Poole's 1825 farce, "Paul Pry"

Opinion: How a comic character sparked our very modern privacy fears – 200 years ago

25 Feb 2016

David Vincent (CRASSH) discusses the nineteenth century theatrical sensation that inspired public debate about privacy.

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How 'more food per field' could help save our wild spaces

28 Jan 2016

Increased farm yields could help to spare land from agriculture for natural habitats that benefit wildlife and store greenhouse gases, but only if...

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Power plant

Global learning is needed to save carbon capture and storage from being abandoned

11 Jan 2016

Governments should not be abandoning carbon capture and storage, argues a Cambridge researcher, as it is the only realistic way of dramatically...

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Pigs eating swill at Stepney City Farm

Feeding food waste to pigs could save vast swathes of threatened forest and savannah

10 Dec 2015

New research suggests that feeding our food waste, or swill, to pigs (currently banned under EU law) could save 1.8 million hectares of global...

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