Articles about 'Department of Geography'

New funding and a generous bequest are helping researchers in Cambridge to explore the complexities of how gender works in the world.

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 masks another side of its legacy, a new history suggests.

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

The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.

New understanding of the physics of clouds is helping to model both climate change and the impact of volcanic eruptions and wild fires.

An ambitious project is making accessible some of the most important visual resources for research into international polar exploration.

As life expectancy increases, what can historical analysis of longevity tell us about limits to the human lifespan?

The largest coordinated programme of international polar activities in 50 years – International Polar Year (IPY) – kicked off globally on 1 March 2007. Building on a 125-year history of previous polar events in 1882–1883, 1932–1933 and 1957–1958, the aim of IPY is to promote even greater international scientific collaboration to address issues of global importance within the Arctic and Antarctic.

Seafront communities are being left wide open to the risk of flooding because of the loss of coastal ecosystems, a Cambridge academic has warned.