Climate change

Buried ancient Fenland yew trees offer climate change insight

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Remains of trees that once covered the Fens are being studied by the University of Cambridge.

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Anglian Water says shortages pose ‘significant risk’ to region

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Anglian Water plans to invest £9bn over five years to deal with climate change and population growth.

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Cambridge professor arrested in Just Stop Oil protest

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Professor Jason Scott-Warren said that he would not ‘stand by’ as government inaction on climate change ‘opens the gates of hell’

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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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