Study highlights how litterfall could lead to a release of stored carbon from the soil
Far from being merely ‘dirt’, soil plays a fundamental role in food production, water availability and biodiversity. A new research programme aims to...
A programme convening business leaders and policy makers is helping to identify the value to business of nature – and the step changes needed to...
Cambridge University glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions. //-->
The future of forests in a changing world will be debated at an international conference in Cambridge this week.
Cambridge Conservation Initiative’s (CCI), inaugural symposium, held on Wednesday, focused on how to conserve natural capital and the...
Efforts to protect the wild tiger should be intensively focused on a few key sites if conservationists are to have any chance of saving it from...
Leading conservationists warn that in order to save biodiversity, society's behaviour must change.
The Bioenergy Initiative is bringing biology and engineering together to address the challenge of meeting our future energy needs.
From quantum physics to stem cells: the research of the University's first cohort of Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellows demonstrates the...
Visitors to this year's Royal Society Summer Exhibition will have a chance to discover how scientists from the University of Cambridge are studying...
Cambridge scientists have discovered a way of mimicking the stunningly bright and beautiful colours found on the wings of tropical butterflies. The...
