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Carbon credits have enabled vital protection of tropical forests, despite being oversold tenfold

A major analysis led by the University of Cambridge has found that many REDD+ projects achieved meaningful reductions in ...
University of Cambridge

Racism and socioeconomic stress may alter pregnancy biology, leaving black women nearly three times more likely to die

A University of Cambridge study has found that stresses such as systemic racism and socioeconomic disadvantage may sensitise ...
University of Cambridge

Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women

Gambling companies are reaching young men – the group most likely to exhibit problem gambling behaviour – on social media at ...
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Deforestation policies are failing to protect against a potentially bigger threat to the Brazilian Amazon

Antonio has spent the past seven years running toward fires that most others run from. A firefighter in the Brazilian Amazon ...
University of Cambridge

Fixing the roads

Tolls saved Britain from pothole hell in the Industrial Revolution. The ‘turnpike’ toll road system deserves far more credit for improving roads in 18th-century England and Wales. The Rokos School of ...