Climate change

Caterpillars struggle to survive climate change, says study

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Fewer caterpillars means fewer “beautiful, charismatic butterflies”, a researcher says.

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Council ranked highly for combating climate change

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Reference:  Date:  Fri, 10/27/2023 East Cambridgeshire District Council has officially been ranked 29th out of 164 district councils for its work to combat climate change, putting it in the top quartile for performance. This is the second time campaign group Climate Emergency UK has officially scored local authorities on their performance. The assessment consisted of…

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Kamiar Mohaddes paper runner-up in FT awards

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Kamiar Mohaddes paper runner-up in FT awards

The Financial Times Thursday, 20 January, 2022 Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes‘s paper, “Rising Temperatures, Falling Ratings: The Effect of Climate Change on Sovereign Creditworthiness”, was named runner-up in the Financial Times Responsible Business Education Awards. The paper, joint with Patrycja Klusak, Matthew Agarwala, Matt Burke, and Moritz Kraemer, uses AI to put science, economics, and materiality…

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Fighting climate change will help economic growth

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Fighting climate change will help economic growth

Dr Kamiar Mohaddes Tuesday, 16 August, 2022 Dr. Kamiar Mohaddes‘s research into long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change, has been featured in an article on the University of Cambridge news site. The papers, joint with Matthew E.Kahn, Ryan N.C.Ng, M. Hashem Pesaran, Mehdi Raissi and Jui-Chung Yang, look at macroeconomic effects of Climate Change and…

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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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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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Public Map Platform project supporting green transition secures major funding

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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 Public Map Platform for Future Generations to chart the green transition on the Isle of Anglesey/Ynys Môn. The Public…

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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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