News in Brief: recycling, rankings, and races
A light-hearted recap of this week’s news, including a new brand in the city and an eco-friendly Halloween initiative
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30 Oct 2026
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26 Oct 2026
Identifying priorities for systematic Antarctic vegetation protection at the continental scale
Antarctica’s vegetation underpins its terrestrial ecosystems yet it is threatened by climate change, human activity and the introduction and spread of non-native species. Protecting these ...
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19 Oct 2026
Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Climate Change and Human Rights Law’
Speaker: Professor Annalisa Savaresi (University of Eastern Finland and University of Stirling) The Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis explores the vital role of legal systems ...
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19 Oct 2026
Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Climate Change and Comparative Law’
Speaker: Dr Ivano Alogna (British Institute for International and Comparative Law) The Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis explores the vital role of legal systems in tackling ...
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19 Oct 2026
Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Climate Change and AI Law’
Speaker: Giulia Trojano (Hausfeld) The Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis explores the vital role of legal systems in tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time. ...
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19 Oct 2026
Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Climate Change and Land Law’
Speaker: Dr Rhiannon Ogden-Jones (University of Cambridge) The Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis explores the vital role of legal systems in tackling one of the most pressing ...
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19 Oct 2026
Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Change and Tort Law’
Speaker: Lord Philip Sales (United Kingdom Supreme Court) The Cambridge Seminar Series on Law and the Climate Crisis explores the vital role of legal systems in tackling one of the most pressing ...
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19 Oct 2026
Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Climate Change Attribution science: Can It Establish Causation in Court?’
Speaker: Dr Rupert Stuart-Smith (Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow in Climate Science and the Law at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme, University of Oxford) Two decades of ...
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19 Oct 2026
Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Civil Law Torts and Climate Change’
Speaker: Elbert de Jong (Full Professor of Private Law at Utrecht University, The Netherlands) Climate change is rapidly entering the domain of tort law. This development is driven by regulation ...
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19 Oct 2026
Law and the Climate Crisis Seminars: ‘Climate Change and the Rule of Law’
Speakers: Chief Justice Brian Preston (Land and Environment Court, New South Wales), Mr Justice Richard Humphreys (Planning and Environment Court, Ireland), Mr Justice Tim Mould (Planning Court, ...
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16 Oct 2026
Breeding emperor penguins show interannual recurrence in shelf-break associated foraging areas across contrasting sea ice conditions in the northwestern Weddell Sea
The emperor penguin Aptenodytes forsteri is highly sea ice dependent and vulnerable to climate change, yet the at-sea distribution and habitat associations of breeding adults remain poorly ...
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14 Oct 2026
New team to save Antarctic port from climate change
The mission aims to protect the base which is home to the world’s southernmost Post Office.
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12 Oct 2026
Population declines and changes in community composition at the world’s largest penguin colony
The Antarctic Peninsula and Scotia Sea are experiencing the greatest pressures from climate change and fisheries in the Southern Ocean, with associated penguin population declines. However, ...
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05 Oct 2026
CEENRG Seminars: ‘Climate Change before National Courts: a Promising Route?’
Speaker: Professor Andreas Paulus (Professor, Chair of Public and International Law, University of Göttingen) The Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance ...
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05 Oct 2026
CEENRG Seminars: ‘Climate Incentives: the Themis Mechanism’
Speaker: Professor Carl Edward Rasmussen (Professor of Machine Learning, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge) Climate change is essentially a problem of managing our shared ...
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05 Oct 2026
CEENRG Seminars: ‘Information, Justice and Public Support for Carbon Tax-and-Dividend Policies: Experimental Evidence from Germany’
Speaker: Dr Merve Kucuk (Postdoctoral Researcher, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC)) The Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy, and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) is ...
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05 Oct 2026
CEENRG Seminars: ‘Climate Change and Changing Oceans, and a Changing International Law?’
Speakers: Professor Nilufer Oral (Director, Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore, Member, United Nations International Law Commission) The Cambridge Centre for ...
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29 Sep 2026
In-situ tracer percolation experiments to constrain the influence of near-surface melting on Svalbard snow signatures
The Arctic is at the forefront of global warming. More frequent and intense rain-on-snow events during winter are altering the annual snowpack with its environmental proxy records, so that ...
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26 Sep 2026
City recycling centre closes after fire breaks out
Three fire crews attended, and put out a fire involving a skip
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25 Sep 2026
Peat reveals 16 500 years of Falkland Islands climate change, and a lot more besides
The post Peat reveals 16 500 years of Falkland Islands climate change, and a lot more besides appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
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