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Trees in an Indian city street. Photo: hannahisabelnic via Flikr (Public domain)

Wrong trees in the wrong place can make cities hotter at night, study reveals

10 Dec 2024

While trees can cool some cities significantly during the day, new research shows that tree canopies can also trap heat and raise temperatures at...

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Surviving the flood at Ahoada in Rivers state Nigeria

Gender inequality ingrained in global climate negotiations, say researchers

11 Nov 2024

Climate governance is dominated by men, yet the health impacts of the climate crisis often affect women, girls, and gender-diverse people...

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Emerald Lake, Yukon

Planting trees in the Arctic could make global warming worse, not better, say scientists

07 Nov 2024

Tree planting has been widely touted as a cost-effective way of reducing global warming, due to trees’ ability to store large quantities of carbon...

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Stock image world map with technology overlay.

10 Cambridge spinouts forging a future for our planet

25 Oct 2024

10 companies taking Cambridge ideas out of the lab and into the real world to address the climate emergency.

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Rachael Garrett

Changemakers: Rachael Garrett and the Conservation Research Institute

21 Oct 2024

Meet Rachael Garrett: land scientist, forest wanderer and Director of the Conservation Research Institute.

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Melissa Leach

Changemakers: Melissa Leach and Cambridge Conservation Initiative

21 Oct 2024

Meet the new leader of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, Professor Melissa Leach CBE.

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Emily Shuckburgh

Changemakers: Emily Shuckburgh and Cambridge Zero

21 Oct 2024

Meet Emily Shuckburgh, Director of Cambridge Zero. She’s been a figurehead of climate science for decades, bringing her prowess to the University...

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Scottish highlands.

How to restore a landscape

09 Oct 2024

Inside the programme protecting Europe's land, sea and species.

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Przewalski’s horses, by Neil Aldridge

Wild horses

09 Oct 2024

Meet the team reintroducing large herbivores to the coldest place in Spain.

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Volunteers collecting seagrass seed, credit: Blue Marine Foundation / Luke Helmer

Solent Seascape

09 Oct 2024

Inside the momentous effort to restore a precious marine world.

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Digital image depicting a green battery

What does it take to make a better battery?

01 Oct 2024

Cambridge researchers are working to solve one of technology’s biggest puzzles: how to build next-generation batteries that could power a green...

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Researcher holding up an ice sample

Historic fires trapped in Antarctic ice yield key information for climate models

09 Aug 2024

Pollutants preserved in Antarctic ice document historic fires in the Southern Hemisphere, offering a glimpse at how humans have impacted the...

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