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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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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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This is the experimental setup used to generate femtosecond laser pulses which serve as an ultrafast "flash " for the camera so that very rapid phenomenon can be filmed

Quantum waves at the heart of organic solar cells

12 Dec 2013

Researchers have been able to tune ‘coherence’ in organic nanostructures due to the surprise discovery of wavelike electrons in organic materials...

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Crane

When building for the future means what it says

18 Oct 2013

Too little attention is being paid to the long-term sustainability of new buildings in a changing climate according to a new study that makes...

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Amazonia at a crossroads

17 Oct 2013

The Amazon rainforest faces an uncertain future – one that an international research network hopes to help steer towards sustainability.

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Factory

The shape of things to come

02 Oct 2013

Researchers are providing a vision for creatively rethinking how the manufacturing industry can perform sustainably in a changing world.

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The world is changing: how do we respond?

01 Oct 2013

Today we commence a month-long focus on research on sustainability and the environment. To begin, Professor Lord Martin Rees and Professor Paul...

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Sustainable livestock production is possible

25 Sep 2013

New research advocates use of pastures with shrubs and trees as it is more sustainable, improving animal welfare and increasing biodiversity.

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Winton Symposium‘s material world

05 Sep 2013

On 30 September, the Department of Physics will host the second annual Winton Symposium at the Cavendish Laboratory on ‘Materials Discovery’.

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