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Carbon dioxide can be stored underground for ten times the length needed to avoid climatic impact

28 Jul 2016

Study of natural-occurring 100,000 year-old CO2 reservoirs shows no significant corroding of ‘cap rock’, suggesting the greenhouse gas hasn’t leaked...

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Opinion: Accurate science or accessible science in the media – why not both?

02 Jun 2016

Michael Gaultois (Department of Chemistry), Joshua Conrad Jackson (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), Ian Mahar (Boston University), and...

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Light microscope image of the five tentacle temnocephalan Temnosewellia c.f rouxi from cultured redclaw crayfish

A 100 million-year partnership on the brink of extinction

25 May 2016

A symbiotic relationship that has existed since the time of the dinosaurs is at risk of ending, as habitat loss and environmental change mean that a...

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Composition of Earth’s mantle revisited thanks to research at Argonne’s Advanced Photon Source

First global map of flow within the Earth’s mantle finds the surface is moving up and down “like a yo-yo”

09 May 2016

Researchers have compiled the first global set of observations of flow within the Earth’s mantle – the layer between the crust and the core – and...

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Vice-Chancellor calls for increased collaboration with Africa

10 Mar 2016

Speaking at the inaugural meeting of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF) Global Gathering 2016, an international conference focused on the development of...

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A tray of eggs up close

Opinion: Dreaming big with biomimetics: could future buildings be made with bone and eggshells?

09 Mar 2016

Michelle Oyen (Department of Engineering) discusses how we could reduce our dependence on "dirty" materials like steel and concrete.

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Wetlands in Cape May, New Jersey, USA

Up to four-fifths of wetlands worldwide could be at risk from sea level rise

24 Feb 2016

Researchers have modelled how wetlands might respond to rising sea levels, and found that as much as four-fifths of wetlands worldwide could be lost...

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Arenal Volcano in November 2006

Increase in volcanic eruptions at the end of the ice age caused by melting ice caps and glacial erosion

02 Feb 2016

Researchers have found that glacial erosion and melting ice caps both played a key role in driving the observed global increase in volcanic activity...

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Opinion: How Davos power brokers can start tackling major environmental risks

21 Jan 2016

Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography), Gemma Cranston (Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership) and Jonathan Green (Department of...

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Coal Fired Power Station (cropped)

University of Cambridge at the World Economic Forum 2016

15 Jan 2016

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Cambridge is to lead a delegation of academics to the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos...

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CONTRAST and CAST Mission Planes

High ozone levels in tropical Pacific caused by fires burning in Africa and Asia

13 Jan 2016

Study indicates ‘biomass burning’ may play a larger role in climate change than previously realised.

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Power plant

Global learning is needed to save carbon capture and storage from being abandoned

11 Jan 2016

Governments should not be abandoning carbon capture and storage, argues a Cambridge researcher, as it is the only realistic way of dramatically...

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