The construction industry could slash its carbon emissions by as much as 50% by optimising the design of new buildings, which currently use double...
Climate change may have contributed to the decline of a city-dwelling civilisation in Pakistan and India 4,100 years ago, according to new research.
A delegation of Cambridge academics, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, is attending the World Economic Forum’s Annual...
Dr Chris Hope’s PAGE2002 model has been used worldwide to calculate the true cost of climate change.
We are not the first to experience environmental change. Does the past have anything to teach us as we search for ways to adapt?
Too little attention is being paid to the long-term sustainability of new buildings in a changing climate according to a new study that makes...
Instead of harming the economies of developing countries, carbon offsets and taxes on shipping and aviation would have a minimal or even a positive...
Human activity is currently a bigger threat to mangroves, and the natural defences they provide against storm surges and other coastal disasters...
Hard-engineered sea walls have a limited life span. Could saltmarshes and mangroves offer a different approach to buffering against storm surges and...
Symposium marks the UK launch of the worldwide initiative Mathematics for Planet Earth 2013.
With the world’s population already estimated to be over seven billion and rising fast, the challenge of how to produce enough food has never been...
A community-driven modelling effort aims to quantify one of the gravest of global uncertainties: the impact of global warming on the world’s food...
