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Opinion: How the UK and India can lead the development of ecologically smart cities

08 Nov 2016

Bhaskar Vira and Eszter Kovacs (Department of Geography and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discuss how lessons learned...

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Brahmaputra - Assam

Opinion: Droughts and floods: India’s water crises demand more than grand projects

06 Jun 2016

Bhaskar Vira (Department of Geography and University of Cambridge Conservation Research Institute) discusses ways of dealing with the crisis...

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Silver Lake, Wasatch watershed, Utah

Opinion: Paying people to stay away is not always the best way to protect watersheds

24 Dec 2015

Libby Blanchard and Bhaskar Vira from Cambridge's Department of Geography argue that we need to consider alternative approaches in order to protect...

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Fall in the Wasatch Mountains

Alternative ways of protecting urban water supplies must be considered in light of worsening droughts in the US, study claims

04 Dec 2015

Alternative models of watershed protection that balance recreational use and land conservation must no longer be ignored to preserve water supplies...

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Lonely tap

Not a drop to drink

19 Oct 2015

A major research collaboration is looking at how small towns in the hills of India and Nepal are coping with increasing demand for water: who wins...

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A Neptune-size planet with a clear atmosphere is shown crossing in front of its star in this artist's depiction

Clear skies on exo-Neptune

24 Sep 2014

Smallest exoplanet ever found to have water vapour

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Decline of Bronze Age ‘megacities’ linked to climate change

27 Feb 2014

Climate change may have contributed to the decline of a city-dwelling civilisation in Pakistan and India 4,100 years ago, according to new research.

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Good tidings for coastal communities

23 Oct 2013

The sea sustains life but also threatens it. An innovative design concept by Ed Barsley aims to contend with rising seawater by welcoming it into our...

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Egypt

Climate change: it’s all happened before…

22 Oct 2013

We are not the first to experience environmental change. Does the past have anything to teach us as we search for ways to adapt?

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Green lego

Water waste! Manufacturers look to go green

22 Jul 2013

Programme launched to revolutionise green credentials of UK manufacturing

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Vegetables

Food security: your questions answered

31 Aug 2011

Over the past month, the University of Cambridge has been profiling research that addresses one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century – how...

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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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