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Elephants at Kruger National Park, South Africa

Demise of large animals caused by both man and climate change

05 Mar 2012

Research provides new insights about what caused the extinction of many of the world’s big animals over the last 100,000 years.

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Peering into a moulin

'Extreme Sleepover #11’ - moulins and meltwater on the Greenland ice sheet

01 Jan 2012

In the eleventh of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, glaciologists Dr Ian Willis and Alison Banwell watch as a lake...

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Living with the Inugguit

25 Nov 2011

A film documenting the disappearing oral traditions of the northernmost settled people on Earth offers a glimpse into how their way of life is...

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The Faraday Institute

Oceans, climate change and Christianity: The Earth's story and God's story

30 Oct 2011

Professor Meric Srokosz of the National Oceanography Centre will be speaking this week, Tuesday 01 November, at the next Faraday Institute seminar...

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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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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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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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cosmic climate change

Astronomers find evidence of cosmic climate change

23 Dec 2010

Evidence of an intense warming period in the Universe’s early history, described as a form of “cosmic climate change”, has been found by an...

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Calls for a global nuclear renaissance in new study

13 Aug 2010

Scientists from the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London today outlined a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear...

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World Health Assembly - Panel on H1N1

New kids on the block

08 Jul 2010

The negotiating styles of the world’s biggest rising powers – China, India and Brazil – could offer important clues about any future challenge they...

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longitude

Longitude project to chart new waters in untold story

12 May 2010

The forgotten story of the British organisation that enabled the development of a system for measuring Longitude, only to disappear from memory after...

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island

Britain's island heritage: half a million years of history

01 Nov 2009

The latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.

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