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Environmental change as enabler for disease transmission

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March 2020: The spread of emerging infectious disease can be amplified by climate change and habitat loss. Environmental change is altering human-wildlife interactions which can accelerate the spread and intensity of disease outbreaks. It is recommended to treat disease outbreaks as symptoms of environmental degradation instead of isolated incidents.

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Advice on moving conferences from the real to the virtual world

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Advice on moving conferences from the real to the virtual world

A faculty member here is part of a taskforce advising conference organisers on how to move their events from the real to the virtual world   Last month, Professor Srinivasan Keshav, Robert Sansom Professor of Computer Science, was asked to be part of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Presidential Task Force on Virtual Meetings….

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Air pollution in Cambs has dropped by a third since coronavirus outbreak

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Less cars on the road mean fewer emissions – and it’s having a great impact on Cambs’ air quality

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Pablo Salas – Bovine Sustainability and Climate Change: What Prospects?

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XR installs 100 bird boxes in central Cambridge

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Climate change group encourages diversity in city

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Climate change drives poleward increases and equatorward declines in marine species

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Extinction Rebellion shifts focus to aiding battle against coronavirus

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Climate change group takes community networks support role

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Cambridge rubbish tip to stay open for business

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Household recycling centres will be accepting waste from green bins and black bags – but anyone self isolating must stay away

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Coronavirus effect casts pall over Cambridge Science Festival biodiversity event

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Last event of annual showcase reveals society far slower adapting to climate change than to coronavirus

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Women in STEM: Dr Maria Russo

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Women in STEM: Dr Maria Russo

Thursday, March 12, 2020 “Cambridge University is an amazing cauldron of very talented people.” So says Dr Maria Russo, who is a Research Associate in our Centre for Atmospheric Science, where she studies the physical and chemical processes at work in the atmosphere. Here, she tells us about the links between climate and air pollution, the…

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