Climate crisis

Solar-powered device produces clean water and clean fuel at the same time

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Solar-powered device produces clean water and clean fuel at the same time

The latest artificial leaf hitches a lift on a punt on the River Cam Thursday, November 9, 2023 Researchers here have developed a floating, solar-powered device that can turn contaminated water or seawater into clean hydrogen fuel and purified water, anywhere in the world The device could be useful in resource-limited or off-grid environments, since…

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Cambridge Historian cited in Vatican climate crisis announcement

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Cambridge Historian cited in Vatican climate crisis announcement

Tuesday, 10 October 2023 Cambridge Historian cited in Vatican climate crisis announcement News Pope Francis’s latest Apostolic Exhortation, Laudate Deum, was published in October 2023 and cites the work of Paul Warde, Professor in Environmental History at the Cambridge History Faculty, in arguing for a fundamental rethink of human interactions with the environment governed by…

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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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Community Open Map Platform project supporting green transition secures major funding

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Community Open Map Platform project supporting green transition secures major funding

pont_britannia_english_-_britannia_bridge_crosses_the_menai_strait_between_the_isle_of_anglesey_and_city_of_bangor_gwynedd_wales_06.jpg   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 Community Open Map Platform (COMP) for Future Generations to chart the green transition on the Isle of…

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Urgent call for more Southern Ocean research

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Urgent call for more Southern Ocean research

Today, hundreds of international scientists are sounding a clarion call for urgent expansion of Southern Ocean research in the emerging climate crisis. 300 scientists from 25 nations have been meeting … The post Urgent call for more Southern Ocean research appeared first on British Antarctic Survey.

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Community Open Map Platform (COMP) Green Transitions Ecosystem Project

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Community Open Map Platform (COMP) Green Transitions Ecosystem Project

green_transition.png   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 Community Open Map Platform (COMP) for Future Generations to chart the green transition on the Isle of…

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Photosynthesis ‘hack’ could lead to new ways of generating renewable energy

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Photosynthesis ‘hack’ could lead to new ways of generating renewable energy

image of cells and electrons during photosynthesis Wednesday, March 22, 2023 An in-depth study of photosynthesis could lead to new ways of generating clean fuel and renewable energy. Dr Jenny Zhang from this department has coordinated an international team of physicists, chemists and biologists to study the earliest stages of photosynthesis in live cells at…

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SU election campaigning gets under way

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Candidates for the SU elections have released their manifestos which focus on the cost of living crisis, strikes, mental health and the climate crisis

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Huntingdonshire officially recognises climate crisis – four years after neighbouring councils

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Huntingdonshire District Council has formally recognised the climate crisis and ecological emergency as it adopted its plan to hit net zero emissions by 2040. One councillor said it was ‘time to take action before it is too late’

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Academics divided over delay to fossil fuel vote

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In a discussion of a proposal to stop the University from accepting fossil fuel funding, academics disagreed over the effect it would have on academic freedoms and the impact it would have on the climate crisis

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