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Cartonera is an artistic publishing movement which originally began in Argentina but spread all across Latin America. It was born of an economic crisis where people – cartoneros – started making a living by selling materials they had salvaged to recycling plants. Cartonera books are usually made from the cardboard bought from cartoneros at a higher cost set by recycling plants. The cardboard they find is used to create…
Image of coin cells courtesy Department of Chemistry photography Monday, August 24, 2020 Researchers have identified a potential new degradation mechanism for electric vehicle batteries – a key step to designing effective methods to improve battery lifetime. Researchers from this Department, the University of Liverpool, and the Diamond Light Source have identified one of the…
Divestment revelations come during Extinction Rebellion’s direct action campaign.
New research has revealed that climate changes associated with past episodes of abrupt warming in Greenland occurred synchronously across a region extending from the Arctic to the Southern Hemisphere subtropics. … The post Synchronous timing of past abrupt climate changes appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
The post Synchronous timing of abrupt climate changes during the last glacial period appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.
The February dig that polarised Cambridge and the nation is back in the news as first court hearings take place
An international study, involving Professor Eric Wolff at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, has found that the onset of past climate changes was synchronous over an area extending from the Arctic to the low latitudes.
A number of protesters – one as young as 19 – have appeared in court charged with criminal damage to two Cambridgeshire land marks.
Image of Dr Qian Wang courtesy University of Cambridge Thursday, August 20, 2020 Researchers here have developed a stand-alone device that converts sunlight, carbon dioxide and water into a carbon-neutral fuel, without requiring any additional components or electricity. The device is a significant step toward achieving artificial photosynthesis – a process mimicking the ability of…