Community Open Map Platform project supporting green transition secures major funding

A team led by Prof Flora Samuel from Cambridge’s Department of Architecture has been awarded one of four new £4.625 million Green Transition Ecosystem grants

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Sept. 4, 2023 ~6 min

Death tolls from climate disasters will ‘balloon’ without investment in Africa’s weather stations

Investment in ‘hydromet systems’ using technologies from AI to SMS would provide a nine-to-one ROI in saved lives and assets across African nations.

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Aug. 14, 2023 ~6 min


Effect of volcanic eruptions significantly underestimated in climate projections

Researchers have found that the cooling effect that volcanic eruptions have on Earth's surface temperature is likely underestimated by a factor of two, and

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 23, 2023 ~5 min

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

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

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 20, 2023 ~7 min

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

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

Cambridge University News • cambridge
June 19, 2023 ~6 min

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

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 engine as

Cambridge University News • cambridge
May 18, 2023 ~5 min

Prolonged droughts likely spelled the end for Indus megacities

New research involving Cambridge University has found evidence — locked into an ancient stalagmite from a cave in the Himalayas — of a series of severe and

Cambridge University News • cambridge
April 26, 2023 ~5 min

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

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, according to new

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 16, 2023 ~6 min


Phone-based measurements provide fast, accurate information about the health of forests

Researchers have developed an algorithm that uses computer vision techniques to accurately measure trees almost five times faster than traditional, manual

Cambridge University News • cambridge
March 7, 2023 ~5 min

Social media posts around solar geoengineering ‘spill over’ into conspiracy theories

Researchers from the University of Cambridge have analysed more than 800,000 tweets and found that negative emotions expressed about geoengineering – the idea

Cambridge University News • cambridge
Feb. 28, 2023 ~6 min

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