Modelling impacts of a warming world
03 October 2012A community-driven modelling effort aims to quantify one of the gravest of global uncertainties: the impact of global warming on the world’s food, health, vegetation and water.
Assessing protected area effectiveness
30 March 2012A new study published in Conservation Letters aims to measure whether parks and reserves in the tropics succeed in protecting forests.
Conservation clusters: making the case
21 February 2012A new study reveals how the gathering together of conservation organisations in one location – a ‘conservation cluster’ – can work best to reap global rewards.
A conservation leader in the making
13 October 2011Joy Juma, from Kenya, is among the first early-career conservation practitioners to take an innovative Masters programme at the University of Cambridge.
Food security: your questions answered
31 August 2011Over the past month, the University of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – how to guarantee enough food, fairly, for the world’s rapidly expanding population. As part of this, we asked whether you had a question that you wanted us to answer, and put them to a panel of academics who specialise in research to do with food security. Here's what they had to say. Thanks to everyone who sent questions in!
Whose fault is famine? What the world failed to learn from 1840s Ireland
19 July 2011A new book by a Cambridge University academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. The Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible consequences: 1 million people died and several million left Ireland. Today the world is watching as millions in Africa face a similar fate: starvation in the midst of plenty. Dr David Nally’s analysis of what happened in his native Ireland less than two centuries ago reveals some shocking parallels with what is happening in Africa.
Final chance to vote for Polar Museum
03 June 2011Time is running out in order to cast your vote and make the Polar Museum the Art Fund’s Museum of the Year for 2011.
SPRI memorial remembers lost Britons
13 May 2011A memorial dedicated to Britons who lost their lives in the service of science in Antarctica has been unveiled at the Scott Polar Research Institute.
Cast your vote for the Polar Museum
28 April 2011It’s time to show your love for the Polar Museum at Cambridge University’s Scott Polar Research Institute this weekend.
Final newspaper of Captain Scott’s doomed expedition reproduced
31 March 2011The last volume of the expedition newspaper, South Polar Times, written by the men waiting for news of Captain Scott’s return from the South Pole in the Antarctic winter of 1912, has just been published in a limited edition by the Scott Polar Research Institute.
