Climate crisis

Developmental and transcriptomic responses of Hawaiian bobtail squid early stages to ocean warming and acidification

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Cephalopods play a central ecological role across all oceans and depths. However, under the current climate crisis, their physiology and behaviour are impacted, and we are beginning to comprehend the […] The post Developmental and transcriptomic responses of Hawaiian bobtail squid early stages to ocean warming and acidification appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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Lunchtime Lecture: ‘The Global Housing Crisis and International Law: A Critical Assessment’ – Prof Balakrishnan Rajagopal, MIT

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Register here if attending online In this talk, I’ll focus on multiple dimension of the global housing crisis – affordability, homelessness, loss of homes due to climate crisis, mass destruction of homes or domicide during conflict, migration and the idea of a home, the contestation over land, and the persistence of forced evictions, discrimination and…

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Last chance to register: free, public conference celebrates 250 years of ‘The Wealth of Nations’

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Last chance to register: free, public conference celebrates 250 years of ‘The Wealth of Nations’

Monday, 2 March 2026 Last chance to register: free, public conference celebrates 250 years of ‘The Wealth of Nations’ News The most famous text in the history of political economy and economics was first published 250 years ago. A landmark public conference will bring together leading historians and economists – including six from Cambridge –…

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CULS event: ‘Climate Change and the Law Panel’

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Join CULS x Cambridge Climate Society for a panel discussion on Climate Change and the Law! The event brings together leading experts to explore how legal systems are adapting to the climate crisis following the ICJ’s 2025 Advisory opinion. Speakers include Dr Lovleen Bhullar (who will be covering the content of the ICJ…

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‘Rethinking International Law’s Role in the Climate Crisis: A TWAIL Analysis of the Coloniality of Global Climate Responses’

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Speaker: Visiting PhD researcher Maryam Yabo Abstract: This research applies a Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) lens to the international community’s responses to the climate crisis. It argues that while these responses aim to advance decarbonisation and global justice, they often reproduce the epistemic…

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Inaugural Lecture of the Hatton Chair in Climate Law: ‘The Globalisation of Climate Law’

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Speaker: Professor Harro van Asselt, Hatton Professor of Climate Law The lecture will be followed by a Panel on: The Prospects of Global Climate Law Moderator: Professor Jorge E. Viñuales Panelists: Professor Francesco Sindico Professor Joana Setzer Professor Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh Professor Annalisa Savaresi Harro van Asselt is the Hatton Professor of Climate Law with the…

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‘We will bring voice for climate crisis’: First Greens elected to county council celebrate

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Three Green Party councillors have been elected to Cambridgeshire County Council.

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Using AI to see the wood for the trees

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Using AI to see the wood for the trees

Shorthand Story:  688ZTrQ7a3 Shorthand Additional HTML:  Researchers here have released GreenLens, a free app that uses AI to measure trees with a high degree of accuracy yet works on a cheap, second-hand Android phone. Shorthand Story Head:  Using AI to see the wood for the trees Shorthand Story Body:  Using AI to see the wood…

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Activists project environmental message on Senate House 

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The group called for a ‘public information campaign’ about the climate crisis

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Science and human ingenuity will help minimise effects of climate crisis, says microbiology organisation

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Cambridge-based Applied Microbiology International says positive stories can motivate and encourage.

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