Articles about 'biodiversity'

The humble cod may be about to have its biggest impact on history since sparking “war” with Iceland in 1972.

Are there any wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Robert Macfarlane has travelled in search of them, reflecting on the meaning of ‘wildness’ and the nature writing tradition.

Thanks to ongoing research in the field, visitors to the Botanic Garden can experience the fascination of plant diversity and relate this to their understanding of our planet’s uniquely different habitats.

Understanding our biological past is a tricky business. It's like trying to build a jigsaw puzzle when most of the pieces are missing. However, bioarchaeologists at the Cambridge City Campus are doing just that through the study of human-environment interactions within a historic and prehistoric framework, often with surprising results.

A ground-breaking professorship that will unify research into how to tackle the Earth’s waning biological diversity is to be created at the Cambridge City Campus.

Asian vultures are at risk of lethal kidney failure if they feed from carcasses of a cow that died after treatment with the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac.

Researchers are calling for tighter controls on the live reef fish trade, a growing threat to coral reefs, in letters to the international journal Science.

Cambridge scientists have discovered a solution for controlling one of the world’s biggest environmental and ecological pests – the zebra mussel.