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tiny worm faecal pellets and fossils

Under the Microscope #13 - Tiny worm pellets

01 Mar 2012

Matthew Kuo tells us how tiny worm faecal pellets affect how oil pipelines sit on the seabed.

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Crummock Water, Cumbria

Landscape, literature, life

29 Feb 2012

Over the past few years, the genre of ‘nature writing’ has seen a new sense of urgency, fostered by a growing awareness of a natural world under...

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Droplet

The crystal ball of conservation

15 Feb 2012

An innovative horizon-scanning exercise, which has just delivered its latest report, highlights emerging topics of relevance to the world’s natural...

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Mike Rands

Biodiversity conservation for life

01 Feb 2012

This month, the University of Cambridge will be profiling research that addresses biodiversity conservation. To begin, Dr Mike Rands, Executive...

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Dr Robert Macfarlane

Life extinguished, life rekindled

27 Jan 2012

This year’s Darwin Lectures address the theme of life. Tonight’s speaker, Cambridge academic Dr Robert Macfarlane, will discuss “Life in Ruins” in...

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Demolition of Manor Park School, Newcastle.

School carbon emissions in England are on the rise

01 Nov 2011

New data obtained by researchers shows that electrical energy consumption in England's schools has gone up, even as heating demand has fallen, with...

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Weighing in for the Cambridge Baby Growth Study

How does your baby grow?

31 Oct 2011

A study of infant growth, tracking 2,400 babies from gestation to the age of two, has provided data of unique depth – and is already adding to our...

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Blue marble

Global business leaders issue urgent call to action on climate change

20 Oct 2011

Governments warned: window to limit global warming closing.

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Joy Juma

A conservation leader in the making

13 Oct 2011

Joy Juma, from Kenya, is among the first early-career conservation practitioners to take an innovative Masters programme at the University of...

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‘Digging Environment’

Excavation shines a light on what the Fens would have looked like 3,000 years ago

23 Sep 2011

Fieldwork by the University’s Cambridge Archaeological Unit will be featured on the BBC’s, ‘Digging for Britain’ programme on Friday 23 September at...

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A section of an Ashby chart

It’s a material world

15 Sep 2011

A spin-out from Cambridge's Engineering Department and a leading supplier of materials information technology software to industry, Granta Design has...

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Douglas Crawford-Brown.

Placing water into the picture for climate change

22 Aug 2011

As World Water Week, an annual week-long global conference on water provision and sustainability, begins in Stockholm, Dr Douglas Crawford-Brown...

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