As World Water Week, an annual week-long global conference on water provision and sustainability, begins in Stockholm, Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown explains how the world needs to prepare for the consequences climate change is likely to have on people's access to this vital resource.
A programme convening business leaders and policy makers is helping to identify the value to business of nature – and the step changes needed to build food security – as its co-Directors explain.
Cambridge University glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions.
Cambridge Conservation Initiative’s (CCI), inaugural symposium, held on Wednesday, focused on how to conserve natural capital and the future of biodiversity.
The Bioenergy Initiative is bringing biology and engineering together to address the challenge of meeting our future energy needs.
Despite our best efforts, social mobility in the UK does not seem to be improving. Diane Reay, Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge, will be speaking at Hay about the hereditary curse of the English education system and her developing vision for a “socially just” replacement.
Research in the Department of Architecture aims to reveal the creative potential of light in the design of contemporary libraries.
Mother birds communicate with their developing chicks before they even hatch by leaving them messages in the egg, new research by a team from the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, has found.
The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.
The Electricity Policy Research Group – a programme that spans the Faculty of Economics and Judge Business School – is providing world-class analysis to support an evolving electricity industry.
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