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Burger and fries

Weak policies and political ideologies risk jeopardising plans to tackle health and climate change, says Cambridge expert

20 Jun 2023

Efforts to tackle major issues facing the UK, including the nation’s health and climate change, are being hampered because politicians often ignore...

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Carbon capture from air and its photoelectrochemical conversion into fuel with simultaneous waste plastic conversion into chemicals.

Clean, sustainable fuels made ‘from thin air’ and plastic waste

19 Jun 2023

Researchers have demonstrated how carbon dioxide can be captured from industrial processes – or even directly from the air – and transformed into...

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Aerial shot of wind farm

Developing solutions for the energy transition

14 Jun 2023

Solutions are being developed at Cambridge that can be implemented, grown to scale, and used to accelerate the rapid transition to a net zero and...

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A photoreactor with an artificial leaf working under solar irradiation

Driving on sunshine: clean, usable liquid fuels made from solar power

18 May 2023

Researchers have developed a solar-powered technology that converts carbon dioxide and water into liquid fuels that can be added directly to a car’s...

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King Charles III at the groundbreaking for the New Whittle Laboratory

̽»¨Ö±²¥King breaks ground on Cambridge’s New Whittle Laboratory

09 May 2023

His Majesty ̽»¨Ö±²¥King visited the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge today, in his first public engagement following the Coronation.

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A section through the Dharamjali stalagmite that the authors studied.

Prolonged droughts likely spelled the end for Indus megacities

26 Apr 2023

New research involving Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ has found evidence — locked into an ancient stalagmite from a cave in the Himalayas — of a series of...

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Cattle herd in the Amazon

Companies’ zero-deforestation commitments have potential to halve cattle-driven deforestation in Brazilian Amazon

20 Apr 2023

Study shows better adoption and implementation of company supply chain policies for Brazilian beef and leather could significantly reduce carbon...

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Killer heatwaves endanger India's development

19 Apr 2023

Heatwaves could slow or reverse India’s progress towards Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) without heat impact assessments.

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Sentinel-1 image composite depicting the highly fractured and fast-flowing frontal margin of the Thwaites and Crosson ice shelves

Ice sheets can collapse faster than previously thought possible

05 Apr 2023

Ice sheets can retreat up to 600 metres a day during periods of climate warming, 20 times faster than the highest rate of retreat previously measured...

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Seeking climate justice at the 'world court'

29 Mar 2023

How a Cambridge professor helped the climate-embattled nation of Vanuatu put the question of global warming to the International Court of Justice for...

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Artist's illustration of photosynthesis

Photosynthesis ‘hack’ could lead to new ways of generating renewable energy

22 Mar 2023

Researchers have ‘hacked’ the earliest stages of photosynthesis, the natural machine that powers the vast majority of life on Earth, and discovered...

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Map of depth-integrated anthropogenic carbon

Giant underwater waves affect the ocean’s ability to store carbon

16 Mar 2023

Underwater waves deep below the ocean’s surface – some as tall as 500 metres – play an important role in how the ocean stores heat and carbon...

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