Researchers turn recovered car battery acid and plastic waste into clean hydrogen
06 Apr 2026Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle forms of plastic waste – such as drinks bottles, nylon textiles and...
UK appoints Cambridge Prof Laura Díaz Anadón to Climate Change Committee
18 Mar 2026UK ministers have appointed University of Cambridge Professor Laura Díaz Anadón to the independent statutory body which advises their governments on...
Changing flight paths could slash aviation’s climate impact, study suggests
18 Mar 2026Small changes to aircraft flight paths to avoid the atmospheric conditions that create condensation trails – known as contrails – could reduce...
Cambridge takes special delivery of kit that will revolutionise tech development in the UK
17 Mar 2026A 60-tonne pressure vessel installed at the new National Centre for Propulsion and Power brings with it a new kind of engineering capability for the...
Flood tolerant wetland crops could also support nature recovery, finds new research
12 Mar 2026Research led by the University of Cambridge and the RSPB shows that farming wetland-adapted crops on wetter peat - known as paludiculture - can...
Voluntary biodiversity credits could help fund global nature recovery alongside other approaches, finds UK rewilding study
03 Mar 2026Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land - in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors wishing to offset...
New Cambridge University exhibition lets visitors test their strength against Greenland’s amazing rare-earth elements
26 Feb 2026A first-of-its-kind Cambridge exhibition will let visitors wrestle with the extraordinary power of rare-earth magnets and discover the rocks from...
Flickering glacial climate may have shaped early human evolution
19 Feb 2026Researchers have identified a ‘tipping point’ about 2.7 million years ago when global climate conditions switched from being relatively warm and...
From AI to climate repair: Cambridge Festival returns with bold questions for an uncertain world
16 Feb 2026As public trust in institutions is tested, artificial intelligence reshapes everyday life and the effects of climate change become impossible to...
Cambridge academic appointed to new UN panel on AI
13 Feb 2026A University of Cambridge academic has been appointed to a new United Nations panel on Artificial Intelligence.
What happens when plants talk back? Experimental AI exhibition at the Botanic Garden
10 Feb 2026From ant plant meditations to orchid jokes, an exhibition opening at Cambridge University Botanic Garden gives a voice to rare specimens.
Promise the Earth: why real climate action means restraint
06 Feb 2026A new book by a Cambridge engineer and an Oxford theologian argues that our faith in technology to solve the climate crisis is distracting us from...