Cambridge Festival celebrates pioneering women for International Women’s Day
07 Mar 2025For International Women’s Day (8 March), the Cambridge Festival (19 March – 4 April) is celebrating some of the remarkable contributions of women...
News article or big oil ad?
06 Mar 2025A sneaky form of advertising favoured by oil giants influences public opinion with climate action misperceptions, but researchers are studying...
Cambridge Festival Speaker Spotlight: Charlotte Andrew
06 Mar 2025Charlotte Andrew is a PhD student in the Insect Biomechanics Group in the Department of Zoology. Her research explores the mechanical implications of...
Pledge to phase out toxic lead ammunition in UK hunting by 2025 has failed
06 Mar 2025A voluntary pledge made by UK shooting organisations in 2020 to replace lead shot with non-toxic alternatives by 2025 has failed, analysis by...
New global map promises to better pinpoint vital rare earth deposits
27 Feb 2025Cambridge geoscientists are developing an atlas that could lead to a more complete understanding of how viable rare earth element deposits form and...
Exploding into life: Volcanic power erupts at Downing's Magma Rising exhibition
26 Feb 2025New exhibition – including works by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk, filmmaker Werner Herzog, and Xbox Game Studio Ninja Theory – showcases the...
The coral whisperer
25 Feb 2025Duygu Sevilgen has built a coral lab in the basement of an old Zoology building. Here, 10 experimental tanks host multicoloured miniature forests...
UK peatland fires are supercharging carbon emissions as climate change causes hotter, drier summers
21 Feb 2025A 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...
Rewilding in wealthy nations could drive extinctions in species-rich regions, experts warn
13 Feb 2025Researchers call on the international community to recognise and start tackling the ‘biodiversity leak’.
Solar-powered device captures carbon dioxide from air to make sustainable fuel
13 Feb 2025Researchers have developed a reactor that pulls carbon dioxide directly from the air and converts it into sustainable fuel, using sunlight as the...
Birdlife soars on nature-friendly solar farms
13 Feb 2025Birds across Eastern England's arable landscapes are thriving on solar farms managed with nature in mind.
Cambridge signs sustainable research agreement
12 Feb 2025The University of Cambridge has become a signatory to the ground-breaking Concordat for the Environmental Sustainability of Research and Innovation...