Life on Earth is at risk from an unprecedented rate of environmental change that threatens the natural resources on which we depend.
Heath goannas - a species of giant, scavenging lizard - act as natural clean-up crews by clearing maggot-ridden animal carcasses from the landscape.
This year's World Environment Day focus is on land restoration. So we spoke with three Cambridge researchers working on reviving landscapes, boosting...
Assumptions that tropical forest canopies protect from the effects of climate change are unfounded, say researchers.
Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta (Economics, St. John's) wins the BBVA award for Economics, Finance and Management for his groundbreaking work in...
Meet the winner of the Vice-Chancellor's Awards 2023 for Research Impact and Engagement and learn more about their projects.
The Established Academic for 2023 is Professor William Sutherland and his research team at Conservation Evidence.
Other threats to UK forests include competition with society for water, viral diseases, and extreme weather affecting forest management.
A near total lack of transparency is making it impossible to assess the quality of corporate-led ecosystem restoration projects, a new study finds...
Local communities are not incentivised to protect tropical forests that are hugely valuable for global climate regulation, a new study has found...
Rewilding, organic farming and the so-called ‘nature friendly farming’ measures included in some government conservation policies may accelerate...
At least 80% of sites identified as being internationally important for biodiversity on land currently contain infrastructure ? of which more than 75...
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity secretariat and the University of Cambridge signed a Memorandum of Understanding on day two of COP15, which...