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The climate crisis and biodiversity losses are affecting the planet at an alarming pace. Cambridge researchers are helping the response to these threats, building resilience, supporting the transition from fossil fuels to a zero-carbon future, and enabling us to act sustainably to protect the planet's precious resources and reduce waste.

The climate crisis: towards zero carbon

26 February 2020

Sir David Attenborough, Dr Jane Goodall DBE and leading Cambridge University researchers talk about the urgency of climate crisis – and some of the solutions that will take us towards zero carbon.

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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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Sir Richard Friend and David Harding

Physics of sustainability programme launched

24 Mar 2011

Funded by a £20 million donation from David Harding, the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability aims to address some of the major...

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South Pond Pavilion at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo

Sustainability revolution

17 Dec 2010

A sustainability revolution could follow the agricultural, industrial and digital revolutions, according to speakers at a discussion hosted by These...

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£17m grant for new 'Innovation and Knowledge Centre'

04 Nov 2010

Cambridge University Engineering Department has been awarded a major grant worth a total of £17million.

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Coalport China Museum - former Coalport Chinaworks - by the River Severn

Reassessing the industrial revolution

21 Sep 2010

It was the dawn of an age of prosperity and transformed Britain into an economic superpower but our rose-tinted view of the industrial revolution...

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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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Forest

First biodiversity symposium looks to future

16 Sep 2010

Cambridge Conservation Initiative’s (CCI), inaugural symposium, held on Wednesday, focused on how to conserve natural capital and the...

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Bee in flight

Translating science for conservation: bees benefit first

08 Sep 2010

A project to make conservation science accessible and relevant to conservationists and policymakers launches its first major synopsis of evidence, on...

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Sustainable shells

Sustainable Shells in running for 2010 Earth Awards

19 Aug 2010

An innovative building concept co-created by a University of Cambridge architect has reached the finals of the 2010 Earth Awards.

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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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trawl

Trawling survives selling previously discarded fish

03 Aug 2010

Fishermen barely eking out a profit because of overfishing of their target stock, shrimp, are now surviving by selling their bycatch (the low-value...

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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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