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Evolution of the pink diffusive boundary layer formed by geochemical reactions

Geochemical reactions may decrease effectiveness of carbon storage schemes

05 Jan 2015

New research shows that the natural reactions taking place in some of the underground reservoirs used to store carbon dioxide may prevent carbon...

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Initial ISI-MIP simulation showing the effects on vegetation productivity at the highest emissions scenario (reduction: red to yellow; increase: green to blue)

Modelling impacts of a warming world

03 Oct 2012

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...

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Deep into the Patagonia Glacier

Ice Age, interrupted

09 Jan 2012

Research shows that a new Ice Age could well have been upon us in the next millennium were it not for increases in CO2 due to humans, despite the...

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CO2 fingers - Strong chemical reactions between dissolved carbon dioxide and porous rock (top) may stop CO2 fingers from spreading from the top throughout an aquifer’s depth, in contrast to systems with no reaction (bottom).

Chemistry curbs spreading of carbon dioxide

06 May 2011

The presence of even a simple chemical reaction can delay or prevent the spreading of stored carbon dioxide in underground aquifers, new research...

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icy world

Cambridge Ideas: This Icy World

30 Mar 2011

Cambridge University glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions. //-->

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Solar Mosaic

Bright future for British solar company

16 Sep 2010

Solar energy company to develop and manufacture high performance, lower cost plastic solar cells.

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Algae

Bioenergy research blooms in Cambridge

01 Aug 2010

The Bioenergy Initiative is bringing biology and engineering together to address the challenge of meeting our future energy needs.

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Drax Power Station

Towards a smarter electricity future

01 Oct 2009

The Electricity Policy Research Group – a programme that spans the Faculty of Economics and Judge Business School – is providing world-class analysis...

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BP Institute

BP Institute for Multiphase Flow

01 Aug 2009

Understanding flow – whether it’s of oil, air, lubricants, lava, seawater or CO2 – lies at the heart of Cambridge’s BP Institute.

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Rice

Supercharged rice: the answer to famine?

26 May 2009

An ambitious project that aims to increase rice yields could provide the solution to future food shortages.

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Plants

Plants not guilty of making greenhouse gases

14 Jan 2009

A study led by scientists at Cambridge University and Royal Holloway, University of London, has shown that plants are not guilty of creating tens of...

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under the sea

Under the sea

27 Mar 2008

Scientists explore huge volume of molten rock now frozen into the crust under the ocean’s floor.

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