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Peering into a moulin

'Extreme Sleepover #11’ - moulins and meltwater on the Greenland ice sheet

01 Jan 2012

In the eleventh of a series of reports contributed by Cambridge researchers, glaciologists Dr Ian Willis and Alison Banwell watch as a lake...

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Demonstration banner

Deep issues: communicating CCS

03 Nov 2011

New research has identified communication gaps that could hinder the deployment of carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technologies to mitigate...

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icy world

Cambridge Ideas: This Icy World

30 Mar 2011

Cambridge ̽»¨Ö±²¥ glaciologist Professor Julian Dowdeswell has spent three years of his life in the polar regions. //-->

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Calls for a global nuclear renaissance in new study

13 Aug 2010

Scientists from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge and Imperial College London today outlined a 20-year master plan for the global renaissance of nuclear...

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World Health Assembly - Panel on H1N1

New kids on the block

08 Jul 2010

̽»¨Ö±²¥negotiating styles of the world’s biggest rising powers – China, India and Brazil – could offer important clues about any future challenge they...

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longitude

Longitude project to chart new waters in untold story

12 May 2010

̽»¨Ö±²¥forgotten story of the British organisation that enabled the development of a system for measuring Longitude, only to disappear from memory after...

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hansaviertel housing, berlin 1955-1957

Planning obligations invaluable for affordable housing

26 Mar 2010

̽»¨Ö±²¥planning obligations which local authorities impose on private developers are successfully raising billions of pounds for local infrastructure...

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island

Britain's island heritage: half a million years of history

01 Nov 2009

̽»¨Ö±²¥latest instalment of a 20-year study to understand how Britain became an island completes a tale of megafloods and super-rivers.

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Business leaders call for ambitious global deal on climate change

22 Sep 2009

̽»¨Ö±²¥business leaders of over 500 companies from around the world will this morning publish ̽»¨Ö±²¥Copenhagen Communiqué calling on world...

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every drop counts

Scientists urge global action to preserve water supplies for billions worldwide

19 May 2009

Chinese, Indian, American and British scientists have released a conference declaration urging a region-by-region response to increased water...

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Clouds 1 - free to use

Unclouding uncertainty in climate modelling

01 May 2009

New understanding of the physics of clouds is helping to model both climate change and the impact of volcanic eruptions and wild fires.

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Arctic Sky

Scientists issue warning on future of central Arctic

17 Apr 2009

Scientists have warned that world leaders are in a race against time to make key decisions about the future of international co-operation in the...

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