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Amid the global threats posed by climate change, spiralling energy costs, insecure employment and widening inequality, the need to rethink our notion of progress is now an urgent priority.
Les chenilles envahissantes peuvent avoir des effets remarquables sur la qualité de l’eau et les conditions du sol. Mais d’un point de vue climatique, elles sont plutôt une nuisance.
A new COVID variant, BA.2.75, has been detected in the UK and several other countries. But the data we have at the moment doesn’t suggest there’s any reason to panic.
Existe un cáncer contagioso que se transmite entre los perros cuando olfatean los genitales de otros congéneres. De hecho, es el más antiguo y prolífico conocido en la naturaleza.
Long COVID patients are taking desperate measures in the hope of getting better. It’s time to increase our focus on testing potential long COVID treatments in clinical trials.
Emma Kast, University of Cambridge; Jeremy McCormack, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, and Sora Kim, University of California, Merced
Megalodon, the world’s largest known shark species, swam the oceans long before humans existed. Its teeth are all that’s left, and they tell a story of an apex predator that vanished.
Global climate movements have espoused nonviolence, but some are adopting more radical tactics in light of the increasing threats posed by climate change.
Fellow of the Cambridge Centre for Geopolitics and Centre Researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (CEENRG), University of Cambridge