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Professor Laura Diaz Anadon quoted in the media on the latest report from the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change on EU adaptationProfessor Laura Diaz Anadon has been featured in a range of news articles to provide comment on the latest report from the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change.Professor Diaz Anadon, who …

New research explores how public programmes shape farmers’ adoption of sustainable agriculture, in Mexico and the United StatesRecent research at the Department of Land Economy examines the performance of public programmes on farmers’ adoption of sustainable agricultural practices, spanning climate-smart agriculture in the U.S. and agroforestry cof…

RestPoll - Restoring pollinators in Europe: Evidence-based actions for Nature Restoration PlansThe European pollinator restoration, Restpoll, has launched a policy brief to support action under the EU Nature Restoration Law. It's also highly relevant to the UK Environmental Improvement Plan 2025 (Goal 1: Restored Nature).The content is underpinned …

Prof. Rachael D. Garrett has been elected a new British Ecological Society (BES) FellowRachael is an interdisciplinary scientist whose research examines the social and ecological impacts of land use, the effectiveness and equity of forest conservation and sustainable agriculture policies, and economic transformations to support people and nature. H…

Professor Lynn Dicks recently joined a leading agriculture and sustainability podcast to discuss the science behind regenerative farming and share insights from University of Cambridge team in the H3 Programme (Healthy Soil, Healthy Food, Healthy People), lead by the University of Sheffield.The conversation explores what robust, real-world evidence…

Dr Sam Reynolds (CRI and Department of Zoology) and Dr Andrew Bladon (University of Reading) feature in a CNA (Channel News Asia) series called 'Raising Expectations'. The episode they contributed to was called "Can AI genuinely improve human health and the planet?" In the piece Sam and Andrew talk about the research they are doing at the Universi…

Charting a Regenerative Pathway for Tourism in the Galápagos Islands, EcuadorHuge congratulations to Chloe King, one of our PhD students in the Department of Geography, who has won the Early Career Researcher Award at the 2025 Cambridge Awards for Research Impact and Engagement for her outstanding work in the Galápagos Islands.  Chloe’s research e…

Nynke Blömer, a PhD student in the Agroecology group in the Department of Zoology,  is a co-founder of Pollinator Ambassadors, a European charity focused on biodiversity regeneration and artistic engagement with nature. They are at the front line of engaging young people in activities for nature, with a strong focus on wild pollinators.Together wit…

Invasive alien species threat to insects revealedResearch published in Nature Communications on Thursday 15 January 2026, co-authored by Dr Joseph Millard of Zoology's Agroecology Research Group, provides new insights into the threat that invasive alien species pose to terrestrial insects. This is the first study to analyse and quantify the impact …

Unlocking Urban Adaptation Imaginaries: New global evidence published in Nature Cities.How do adaptation practitioners across the world imagine their city adapting to climate change? A new publication in Nature Cities provides evidence on the diversity of perspectives about urban climate adaptation. The work has been co-authored by Dr Aiora Zabala …

Delivering Effective Conservation PracticeThe talk recordings from our Delivering Effective Conservation Practice conference on 9th January are now live — you can access them here.  The conference brought together 600 participants (150 in person and 400 joining online), including all six Chief Scientists from the UK’s Statutory Nature Conservation …

Prof. Laura Diaz Anadon, Dr Edoardo Borgomeo, Dr Kennedy Mbeva join historic IPCC Authors meeting in ParisThree Cambridge researchers have joined more than six hundred experts from around the world in Paris in the first week of December to commence work on the first draft of a key report from the United Nations body for assessing the science relate…

TESSERA: An open-source satellite remote-sensing foundation model for researchersSatellite remote sensing enables a wide range of downstream applications, including habitat mapping, carbon accounting, and strategies for conservation and sustainable land use. However, satellite time series are voluminous and often corrupted, making them challenging …

Global bird study reveals declining ecosystem resilienceA new study has found land-use change is undermining ecosystem stability by reducing the functional diversity of bird communities.  'A variety of bird species play key roles in supporting the ecosystems that we rely on, yet we are damaging habitat quality and thus the potential for species to …

Tropical field course 2025: a unique insight into rainforest ecology and conservationLast month 28 students and staff from the Departments of Plant Sciences and Zoology along with 6 Malaysian students from local universities, travelled to the Danum Valley Field Centre in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo for this year’s tropical field course.The course is a …