Life on Earth is at risk from an unprecedented rate of environmental change that threatens the natural resources on which we depend.
Leading plant scientists have called for major changes to the way GM crops are licensed.
The Amazon rainforest faces an uncertain future – one that an international research network hopes to help steer towards sustainability.
Helping big businesses consider their impact on the environment is leading to a re-evaluation of activities to combine profitability with...
Today we commence a month-long focus on research on sustainability and the environment. To begin, Professor Lord Martin Rees and Professor Paul...
New research advocates use of pastures with shrubs and trees as it is more sustainable, improving animal welfare and increasing biodiversity.
The development of a new Conservation Research Institute will be the latest addition to a flourishing conservation community in Cambridge.
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...
On the 60th Anniversary of the ‘big flood’ that devastated the coastline of eastern England, new research shows that integrating ‘natural’ sea...
A notebook recording the fauna of Cambridgeshire observed and collected by the Reverend Leonard Jenyns between 1820 and 1849 has been published in...
Researchers have identified 15 issues that could affect the diversity of life on Earth in 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...
