As societies face the triple challenge of avoiding the worst effects of climate change, protecting remaining biodiversity and improving human...
The University helps the United Nations launch a new 'Ecosystem Accounting' framework: allowing governments to better include and reflect nature in...
Sir David Attenborough will join the Cambridge Conservation Initiative as it hosts an event at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos...
The Lost Words is a book by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris that summons the magic of nature to help children find, love and protect the natural...
A box full of diamonds, volcanic rock from Mount Vesuvius, and the geology guide that Darwin packed for his epic voyage on the Beagle will go on...
What is our place in the natural world – and how do we feel about the scientific advances that are changing the way we live? In her book Making a...
The writer Nan Shepherd (1893-1981), who was quietly acclaimed in her lifetime, is the face of a new Royal Bank of Scotland bank note. One of...
A new app will crowdsource data to help scientists understand the relationship between biodiversity and wellbeing. The app, developed at the...
‘Dumberdash’ is an old Cheshire term for a short but violent storm. A ‘lumpenhole’ is a deep trench for fluid farmyard waste. The man who remembers...
Researchers say that the first study to attempt to gauge global visitation figures for protected areas reveals nature-based tourism has an economic...
Helping big businesses consider their impact on the environment is leading to a re-evaluation of activities to combine profitability with...
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...
