Cement and faith top innovation competition
08 May 2026A faith-based climate donation platform and a low-carbon cement innovation took the top prizes at the 2026 Cambridge Climate Challenge.
Can we feed the world without breaking the planet?
06 May 2026The global food system is more productive than ever, but it's pushing natural systems out of balance in the extreme. Can science help farmers produce...
Carbon credits have enabled vital protection of tropical forests, despite being oversold tenfold
30 Apr 2026A major analysis led by the University of Cambridge has found that many REDD+ projects achieved meaningful reductions in forest loss - offering real...
Snow cover on Greek mountains has more than halved in four decades, study finds
30 Apr 2026Snow cover in the mountains of Greece – an important water source for communities, agriculture and natural ecosystems during the dry summer months –...
Deep-ocean heat has been marching closer to Antarctica, study reveals
28 Apr 2026A decades-long study of oceanographic data provides the first evidence that deep-ocean heat has moved closer to Antarctica, threatening the fragile...
Deforestation policies are failing to protect against a potentially bigger threat to the Brazilian Amazon
27 Apr 2026Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon since 2019, he works...
Cambridge academics elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
27 Apr 2026Five academics from the University of Cambridge have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Malaria shaped the distribution of early humans across Africa
22 Apr 2026A new study suggests that malaria influenced where early humans lived in sub-Saharan Africa between around 74,000 and 5,000 years ago, fragmenting...
Monkeys learn to eat soil so they can tolerate high-calorie junk food
22 Apr 2026Gibraltar’s famous macaques have started eating soil, a behaviour linked to their access to tourist snacks, according to a new study.
Helping young conservationists plug in and shine bright
14 Apr 2026The Student Conference in Conservation Science has connected thousands of young conservationists determined to tackle the biodiversity crisis - and...
50,000 join Cambridge Festival for ideas, debate and discovery
09 Apr 2026Cambridge turned curious, noisy and gloriously hands on this spring as the Cambridge Festival wrapped its 2026 edition with a surge of public energy...
What's killing our bees – and how they fight back
08 Apr 2026Professor Mark Brown has devoted decades to defending pollinators from disease, pesticides and parasites.