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Protecting consumers from fraudulent health claims: A taxonomy of psychological drivers, interventions, barriers, and treatments

25 February 2020

Protecting consumers from fraudulent health claims: A taxonomy of psychological drivers, interventions, barriers, and treatments Douglas MacFarlane, Mark J. Hurlstone, Ullrich K.H. Ecker Highlights Novel interventions are...

Girls in STEM

25 February 2020

Girls in STEM Girls in STEM is a student organization dedicated to inspiring women of all socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics through hands on scientific...

Coronavirus: Travel and Health Guidance

12 February 2020

University of Cambridge Information on Coronavirus (Updated 11/2/20 - University of Cambridge website) The University and Colleges are cooperating closely with Public Health England’s Health Protection Team in Cambridge...

Loss of EU Protections Could Imperil UK Hedgehogs

12 February 2020

Britain's Hedgehogs At Risk After Brexit New rules do not contain same level of safeguards as under common agricultural policy. Britain’s hedgehogs could be at greater risk after Brexit because hedges may no longer be...

The Polar Explorer Using Grime To Break the Ice

12 February 2020

This Cambridge Life: Prem Gill By Charis Goodyear It’s not often someone compares the voices of seals to the sounds of space set to a Grime beat. But when he’s not monitoring seals from space, PhD student Prem Gill is using...

From the Himalayas to the Fens - The Foundation Lecture

12 February 2020

Professor Bhaskar Vira, Fitzwilliam College Fellow, Graduate Tutor and Director of Studies in Geography, gave the 2019 Foundation Lecture ‘From the Himalayas to the Fens: Towards a Political Economy of Environment and...

Degraded soils mean tropical forests may never fully recover from logging

17 December 2019

Continually logging and re-growing tropical forests to supply timber is reducing the levels of vital nutrients in the soil, which may limit future forest growth and recovery, a new study suggests. This raises concerns about...

Ecosystems Overload

12 December 2019

We are laying waste to the biosphere. If we're serious about saving millions of species, then it's our own that must change how it thinks about, lives off and values the planet it inhabits. Read whole article here

Chemical diversity more important than biodiversity for producing greenhouse gases in lakes.

29 November 2019

Chemical and microbial diversity covary in fresh water to influence ecosystem functioning ( Andrew J. Tanentza p, Department of Plant Sciences). Freshwater lakes have been identified as a potential “ticking time bomb” amid...

Extent of human encroachment into world’s protected areas revealed

29 October 2019

Largest study yet to compare protected with “matched” unprotected land finds “significantly higher” increases in human pressure – primarily through agriculture – in protected areas across the tropics. "Our study shows that...

Protecting consumers from fraudulent health claims: A taxonomy of psychological drivers, interventions, barriers, and treatments

Girls in STEM

Coronavirus: Travel and Health Guidance

Loss of EU Protections Could Imperil UK Hedgehogs

The Polar Explorer Using Grime To Break the Ice

From the Himalayas to the Fens - The Foundation Lecture

Degraded soils mean tropical forests may never fully recover from logging

Ecosystems Overload

Chemical diversity more important than biodiversity for producing greenhouse gases in lakes.

Extent of human encroachment into world’s protected areas revealed

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