Sir David Attenborough spoke of how he feels during visits to the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) when he stopped by the CCI conservation campus at the University of Cambridge this week.
Dr Arik Kershenbaum listens to wolves, gibbons and dolphins to reveal the messages they send one another. His work challenges our assumptions about what animals are capable of, and affirms what makes humans truly unique.
The winners of a new prize supporting ambitious ideas for how artificial intelligence can address critical societal issues are announced today, with projects spanning fertility, climate change, language and communication challenges, mental health, and how local councils deploy AI.
Promoting climate-friendly behaviours will be more successful in societies where everyone has the capacity: financially, physically, and timewise, to make changes.
The University of Cambridge heads to COP28 in Dubai, UAE, with a film premiere and a host of higher education and research events.
The gift from Arcadia will support the next phase of the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme for the large-scale restoration of Europe’s most treasured but endangered ecosystems.
The Endangered Landscapes and Seascapes programme is demonstrating that large-scale restoration of nature is possible - and beneficial to people too. New funding will support ambitious projects to restore Europe's land and seas.
Local communities are not incentivised to protect tropical forests that are hugely valuable for global climate regulation, a new study has found. International funding could help smallholder farmers to boost yields on their existing land to incentivise long-term forest protection.
A conference organised by Pembroke College, Cambridge Conservation Initiative and WildFish Conservation has mobilised activists working to save chalk streams - one of the world's rarest habitats - from pollution and over-abstraction.
Study of farmer preferences shows that turning whole areas of farmland into habitats comes with half the price tag of integrating nature into productive farmland, if biodiversity and carbon targets are to be met.
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