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The climate crisis and biodiversity losses are affecting the planet at an alarming pace. Cambridge researchers are helping the response to these threats, building resilience, supporting the transition from fossil fuels to a zero-carbon future, and enabling us to act sustainably to protect the planet's precious resources and reduce waste.

The climate crisis: towards zero carbon

26 February 2020

Sir David Attenborough, Dr Jane Goodall DBE and leading Cambridge University researchers talk about the urgency of climate crisis – and some of the solutions that will take us towards zero carbon.

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insect

Insects hold atomic clues about the type of habitats in which they live

14 Mar 2011

Researchers discover an ‘atmospheric imprint’ in insects, revealing where they are most likely to survive should climate change alter their ecosystem...

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South Pond Pavilion at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo

Sustainability revolution

17 Dec 2010

A sustainability revolution could follow the agricultural, industrial and digital revolutions, according to speakers at a discussion hosted by These...

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Cambridge Ideas - How Many Lightbulbs?

11 Nov 2010

Cambridge University physicist, David Mackay, in a passionate, personal analysis of the energy crisis in the UK, in which he comes to some surprising...

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£17m grant for new 'Innovation and Knowledge Centre'

04 Nov 2010

Cambridge University Engineering Department has been awarded a major grant worth a total of £17million.

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Interviewing a forest villager

Nature dialogues: whose ecosystem?

01 Nov 2010

Finding the right balance between global and local demands on the natural world could help reduce poverty.

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Superconductor levitation

Flying high: levitation and energy storage

01 Nov 2010

Research by the Department of Engineering and Boeing is taking advantage of the remarkable properties of superconductors.

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Coalport China Museum - former Coalport Chinaworks - by the River Severn

Reassessing the industrial revolution

21 Sep 2010

It was the dawn of an age of prosperity and transformed Britain into an economic superpower but our rose-tinted view of the industrial revolution...

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Solar Mosaic

Bright future for British solar company

16 Sep 2010

Solar energy company to develop and manufacture high performance, lower cost plastic solar cells.

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Forest

First biodiversity symposium looks to future

16 Sep 2010

Cambridge Conservation Initiative’s (CCI), inaugural symposium, held on Wednesday, focused on how to conserve natural capital and the...

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Tigers

Scientists plot key sites for tiger’s last stand

14 Sep 2010

Efforts to protect the wild tiger should be intensively focused on a few key sites if conservationists are to have any chance of saving it from...

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Ammophila Ammophila

Biofuel from inedible plant material easier to produce

13 Sep 2010

Researchers have discovered key plant enzymes that normally make the energy stored in wood, straw, and other non-edible parts of plants difficult to...

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Titan3 microscope

Most powerful microscope in the UK unveiled

10 Sep 2010

The most powerful atom resolving microscope in the UK was today revealed at the University of Cambridge. The new electron microscope, which will...

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