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What happens when statutory carbon reduction targets are missed.
For villagers in remote areas in Sierra Leone it takes a lot of time and money to get to a clinic. So the COVID-19 vaccine came to the people.
Great tits being studied at a woodland near Oxford are adjusting the timings of their breeding season as the climate changes.
The South African government has finally decided to shut down the captive lion industry, but has not set a deadline for when lion breeding and hunting will end.
The largest farm, in the UAE, has more than 10,000 camels.
Cement and fossil fuel production has reached unprecedented levels, with most of the emission growth traceable to a relatively small number of companies.
Some strains of this opportunistic pathogen are also increasingly becoming resistant to the drugs designed to treat them.
Dunes can preserve a record of historic climate changes and shifting continents.
Check that something is blooming every week, March through October, to help bees.
Youth theatre encourages actors to connect with characters of canonical plays, but the trajectories of young women within them can make it hard to find redemptive or empowering touch points.
Beaufort’s presence at Collyweston formed part of a strategic plan, devised by mother and son, to exert royal influence both locally and nationally.
Meet the next generation of wind turbines that can operate in deeper waters.
Private tech companies are increasingly being used to delivery public funds to vulnerable people – and facilitate the government’s hostile environment policies.
If the climate warms by more than 7 degrees, the likelihood of extinction for a species increases, regardless of its other traits.
Their novels feature defiant heroines, who resist the tyranny of forced marriages and seek moral, intellectual and economic liberation.
The global carbon removal industry must be drastically scaled up to avert climate breakdown.
Cold snaps can affect everyday services and infrastructure, putting lives at risk.
Our review shows that evidence to support further privatisation of healthcare services is weak.
What constitutes an ‘unborn child’ should not be decided by a relatively small number of religious conservatives.
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Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Behavioural and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Oxford
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Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford
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Career Development Fellow in Engineering, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Microbiology, University of Oxford
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Senior Researcher in Economics, University of Oxford
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Global Head of Wildlife Research, World Animal Protection, and Visiting Researcher, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU), University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Research assistant, Empire, Migration and Belonging, University of Oxford
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Heritage Partnerships Coordinator, University of Oxford
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Professor of Climate Science, University of Oxford
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Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Doctoral Researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
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Stipendiary Lecturer in Biology, University of Oxford
