New approaches to help businesses tackle climate change
26 Feb 2020Climate change could add around 20% to the global cost of extreme weather events by 2040, according to early findings from Cambridge researchers, who...
The climate crisis: towards zero carbon
26 Feb 2020Sir David Attenborough, Dr Jane Goodall DBE and leading Cambridge University researchers talk about the urgency of climate crisis – and some of the...
Cambridge researchers advise county council on net zero policy actions
19 Feb 2020A team of early-career researchers from the University of Cambridge are working with the county council to identify the best ways for Cambridgeshire...
Prince of Wales launches new UK centre for low-carbon aviation
28 Jan 2020The Prince of Wales today launched the National Centre for Propulsion and Power during a visit to the University of Cambridge. Based at the world...
The "stop doing stupid stuff" approach to sustainable manufacturing
22 Jan 2020Around 90% of the resources we process to create goods are not reaching the person for whom they are made. How can we make manufacturing more...
Cambridge-designed curriculum teaches schoolchildren about water scarcity and climate activism
17 Jan 2020Students and teachers across India now have free access to a new curriculum on water security and sustainability, co-developed by researchers at the...
The 'P' word
16 Jan 2020How do we shift our 'take, make, throw-away' plastic world towards 'recycle, recover, re-use'? It's time for blue-sky thinking plus practical...
Dr Jane Goodall on the environment: "My greatest hope is our young people"
14 Jan 2020In a new film, Dr Jane Goodall DBE talks about the environmental crisis and her reasons for hope.
Women in STEM: Angela Harper
02 Jan 2020Angela Harper is a PhD candidate at the Cavendish Laboratory, a member of Churchill College, and a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Here, she tells us about...
Strategic partner: Rolls-Royce
16 Dec 2019Researchers at Cambridge are working with Rolls-Royce to make aeroengines greener.
Opinion: Why and how to debate climate change
16 Dec 2019What's the best way to debate a problem as big and complex as climate change? In his new book, Professor Mike Hulme from the Department of Geography...
Ecosystems Overload
10 Dec 2019We are laying waste to the biosphere. If we're serious about saving millions of species, then it's our own that must change how it thinks about...