Environment

Adult pheasant in grass

Pledge to phase out toxic lead ammunition in UK hunting by 2025 has failed

06 Mar 2025

A voluntary pledge made by UK shooting organisations in 2020 to replace lead shot with non-toxic alternatives by 2025 has failed, analysis by...

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Professor Sally Gibson (centre) and colleagues

New global map promises to better pinpoint vital rare earth deposits

27 Feb 2025

Cambridge geoscientists are developing an atlas that could lead to a more complete understanding of how viable rare earth element deposits form and...

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Exploding into life: Volcanic power erupts at Downing's Magma Rising exhibition

26 Feb 2025

New exhibition – including works by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk, filmmaker Werner Herzog, and Xbox Game Studio Ninja Theory – showcases the...

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Duygu with her coral tanks

The coral whisperer

25 Feb 2025

Duygu Sevilgen has built a coral lab in the basement of an old Zoology building. Here, 10 experimental tanks host multicoloured miniature forests...

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Fire on UK moorland

UK peatland fires are supercharging carbon emissions as climate change causes hotter, drier summers

21 Feb 2025

A new study led by the University of Cambridge has revealed that as our springs and summers get hotter and drier, the UK wildfire season is being...

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The Gola Rainforest Project in Sierra Leone. This conservation project has limited leakage while slowing deforestation by supporting nearby farmers such as Mallo Samah to increase their yields and get higher prices for their cocoa.

Rewilding in wealthy nations could drive extinctions in species-rich regions, experts warn

13 Feb 2025

Researchers call on the international community to recognise and start tackling the ‘biodiversity leak’.

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Solar-powered flow reactor

Solar-powered device captures carbon dioxide from air to make sustainable fuel

13 Feb 2025

Researchers have developed a reactor that pulls carbon dioxide directly from the air and converts it into sustainable fuel, using sunlight as the...

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Bird on a wire on a solar farm

Birdlife soars on nature-friendly solar farms

13 Feb 2025

Birds across Eastern England's arable landscapes are thriving on solar farms managed with nature in mind.

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Senate House, Cambridge.

Cambridge signs sustainable research agreement

12 Feb 2025

The University of Cambridge has become a signatory to the ground-breaking Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation...

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Dr Okello (far right) and colleagues at the Clean Air Forum 2024 in Lagos.

Early Career Researcher 2024

03 Feb 2025

The Early Career Researcher winner for 2024 is Dr Gabriel Okello, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, School of Technology, Murray...

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A University of Cambridge student stargazing at the Institute of Astronomy.

The Cambridge Awards 2024 for Research Impact and Engagement

03 Feb 2025

Meet the winner of the Cambridge Awards 2024 for Research Impact and Engagement and learn more about their projects.

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High voltage electricity towers combined with economic charts

Electricity prices across Europe to stabilise if 2030 targets for renewable energy are met

03 Feb 2025

National targets for solar and wind power will see reliance on natural gas plummet, reducing electricity price volatility across Europe, with major...

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