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Appeal lost to build more than 4,500 solar panels in ‘unspoilt’ South Cambs countryside

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The planning inspector has upheld South Cambridgeshire District Council’s decision to refuse the plans for the new solar farm.

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Western gender conflicts ‘impact our ability to address climate change’, says Martin Hultman

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Swedish academic to give talk on ‘masculinities and the rights of nature’.

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Climate change forces National Trust garden redesign

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The new parterre planting design will help it cope with “extreme weather conditions”, says the charity.

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Clinical School’s Distinguished Lecturer 2023

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Lung Cancer Promotion by Air Pollution: Towards Molecular Cancer Prevention Professor Charlie Swanton Where: William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine. When: 11 October, 17:30 Charlie Swanton (UCL and the Crick) will be the Clinical School’s Distinguished Lecturer this year. The lecture will be at 17.30 on the 11 October. Charlie has made major contributions…

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Paul Kirkley: Compromise replaced by testing to destruction

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Paul Kirkley: On congestion charging, losing the climate change PR war, ‘the Streisand effect’, Co-op shops and a sizzling September.

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Extreme environments as sources of fungal endophytes mitigating climate change impacts on crops in Mediterranean-type ecosystems

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The post Extreme environments as sources of fungal endophytes mitigating climate change impacts on crops in Mediterranean-type ecosystems appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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Catastrophic risks to humanity studied by researchers in summer fellowship at Trinity College

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X-risks include extreme climate change, transformative AI and future pandemics.

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Emperor penguins suffer unprecedented breeding failure amid Antarctic sea ice loss

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British Antarctic Survey scientist says it’s another climate change warning.

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Retreating sea ice keeps zooplankton in the depths

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Retreating sea ice keeps zooplankton in the depths

Climate change is affecting the vertical migration of zooplankton in the Arctic, with potential implications for the entire Arctic ecosystem, finds a new study, published today in Nature Climate Change. … The post Retreating sea ice keeps zooplankton in the depths appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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Community Open Map Platform project supporting green transition secures major funding

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Community Open Map Platform project supporting green transition secures major funding

pont_britannia_english_-_britannia_bridge_crosses_the_menai_strait_between_the_isle_of_anglesey_and_city_of_bangor_gwynedd_wales_06.jpg   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 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to create a Community Open Map Platform (COMP) for Future Generations to chart the green transition on the Isle of…

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