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Winton Symposium tackles the challenge of energy storage and distribution

11 Oct 2017

The sixth annual Winton Symposium will be held on 9 November at the University’s Cavendish Laboratory on the theme of Energy Storage and Distribution.

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High Mountain Agribusiness and Livelihood Improvement Project in Nepal

Study demonstrates how academia and business can ensure sustainability of resources

07 Oct 2016

Collaboration between business and academia can identify the most urgent research priorities to ensure the sustainability of food, energy, water and...

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Trophy hunting of lions can aid in conservation, but overhaul of system is required, say researchers

23 Sep 2016

New research has found that controlled trophy hunting of lions can actually help conserve the species, but only in areas where hunting companies are...

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Going green: why don't we all do it?

10 Jun 2016

From wind turbines and solar photovoltaics to grey water recycling and electric vehicles, technology is making it ever easier for us to be green –...

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Mathare, Nairobi

Building from the ground up: participatory design in Kenya’s oldest slum

05 Aug 2015

In a landmark project with UN-Habitat, a team of Cambridge researchers has designed a community centre in one of Kenya’s biggest and oldest slums...

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Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta. His lecture at St John’s will call for a different attitude to natural resources compared with most commodities and for ecology to be a fundamental part of young peoples’ education.

“Not just another commodity”: Leading economist backs Pope’s stance on poverty and environment

29 Jun 2015

Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, who last year co-authored an appeal to the Pope for moral leadership on climate change, will back his recent...

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Tar sands, Alberta

What research would enhance business sustainability?

15 May 2015

A new project led by the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership is looking at how academic research can help make businesses more...

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'Extreme sleepover #15' – keeping the lights on in rural Uganda

20 Mar 2015

Stephanie Hirmer travelled to Moyo in northern Uganda to ask which possessions the villagers most value and why. The results will be used to help...

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Where there’s muck there’s aluminium (if not brass)

04 Dec 2014

Technology developed at the University of Cambridge lies at the heart of a commercial process that can turn toothpaste tubes and drinks pouches into...

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Coal mine in Dhanbad, India. The biodiversity loss caused by the Indian mining industry has been widely criticised and is an example of the type of issue around which scientists now claim religious leaders could mobilise public action.

Science turns to religion for “mass mobilisation” on environmental change

19 Sep 2014

Ahead of the UN summit on climate change, two leading scholars in the field make a watershed appeal to religious leaders for help in mobilising...

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Global challenges for science and technology

Winton Symposium tackles the challenges of a growing population

15 Sep 2014

On September 29th, the Department of Physics will host the third annual Winton Symposium at the Cavendish Laboratory on the theme of ‘Global...

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Fajitas. Banner image: ...eat meat! by James Vaughn

Changing global diets is vital to reducing climate change

01 Sep 2014

Healthier diets and reducing food waste are part of a combination of solutions needed to ensure food security and avoid dangerous climate change, say...

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