Videos from the third Programming for the Planet (PROPL) workshop at PLDI 2026, and Cyrus Omar is visiting Cambridge on sabbatical for a year to drive followups!

Notes from Andrew Balmford's Royal Society Environment Medal lecture, on why shifting diets and cutting food waste are necessary but not sufficient, and why sustainable high-yield farming tied to land...

Notes from a wonderfully interdisciplinary Edinburgh workshop on 'Rewilding the Web', ranging coopetition and biological variety through the philosophy of self-organisation, polycrisis governance, pro...

Behind the scenes of a week of BBC/ITV news and radio appearances about hedgehogs and TESSERA, but also what to expect when a research story catches the news cycle.

Over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.

We analysed 44 REDD+ projects and find that the voluntary market did over-credit, but also that most projects slowed deforestation on the ground. Forest carbon credits are under priced relative to per...

REDD+ projects reduced deforestation, but less than claimed. Synthesising 44 projects, this study finds about 11 times over-crediting due to selection bias in control areas and modelling approaches an...

with Sadiq Jaffer and Frank Feng

Today OpenUK is sharing our first public update on the work we have been commissioned to undertake by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). This was procured through a competitive tendering process, and ...

Reversing defaunation through rewilding and its consequences for biodiversity and ecosystem function Supervisor: Professor Rob Fletcher The world is facing several global challenges that are transform...

YouTube video by ACM SIGPLAN

SCCS helps young conservation scientists gain experience, learn new ideas and make contacts that will be valuable for their future careers.

The publication of ever-larger numbers of problematic papers, including fake ones generated by artificial intelligence, represents an existential crisis for the established way of doing evidence synth...

The publication of ever-larger numbers of problematic papers, including fake ones generated by artificial intelligence, represents an existential crisis for the established way of doing evidence synth...

There are simultaneous interlinked crises across the planet due to human actions: climate change, biodiversity loss, and desertification. Addressing these challenges requires, amongst other things, a ...

Wise use of evidence to support efficient conservation action is key to tackling biodiversity loss with limited time and resources. Evidence syntheses provide key recommendations for conservation deci...

Wise use of evidence to support efficient conservation action is key to tackling biodiversity loss with limited time and resources. Evidence syntheses provide key recommendations for conservation deci...

Researchers at Cambridge are leading conversations to make sure we embrace AI with eyes wide open.

Key concepts underpinning undergraduate ecology and conservation courses

Rebalancing the planet must happen faster. Cambridge researchers are using AI to help.

Rebalancing the planet must happen faster. Cambridge researchers are using AI to help.