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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.
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….
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…
The Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) are supporting partners of The Economist’s Sustainability Summit. This year the focus is on scaling up action to respond to climate change.
Photo of solar panels by Mariana Proença on Unsplash Monday, March 2, 2020 A technique based on the principles of MRI and NMR has allowed researchers to observe both how next-generation batteries for large-scale energy storage work, but also how they fail, aiding the development of strategies to extend battery lifetimes. Being able to extend…
In January the Banking Environment Initiative launched a new report, Bank 2030. The study outlines the role of the banking sector in tackling climate change and details how individual banks can accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy. This webinar will offer a deeper understanding of the context and vision of the Bank 2030…
Climate change could add around 20% to the global cost of extreme weather events by 2040, according to early findings from Cambridge researchers. The findings come from the Cambridge Climate …
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