Announced today at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15), this push is part of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, a movement to avert climate catastrophe and mass extinction.
Launching today, the United Nations Conference of the Parties for Biodiversity (COP15) will convene governments from nearly 200 countries to agree to a new set of goals to tackle the biodiversity crisis over the next decade.
A new study led by the University of Oxford is the first to quantify the day-to-day barriers that conservation workers face as they try to conserve and manage island ecosystems around the world.
A \u00a32.48m gift from XTX Markets has enabled the endowment of a new DPhil scholarship at Oxford, in memory of the mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani, paving the way for the next generation of female Fields Medallists.
DeepMind, the leading British artificial intelligence company, has renewed its commitment to supporting students at the University of Oxford following the success of its scholarship programme for under-represented groups in AI.
As nations prepare to meet in Uruguay to negotiate a new Global Plastics Treaty, a study from Oxford and Nekton scientists has revealed the discovery of synthetic plastic fibres in air, seawater, sediment and sea ice.
A partnership between the Oxford Robotics Institute and Department of Biology is using cutting-edge robots to assess the state of species diversity and ecosystems in the UK.
As part of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, the Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research and Oxford Martin School hosted a symposium on 'The Rising Tide of Antimicrobial Resistance: A high price to pay', bringing together experts from research, industry, policy and finance to discuss the threat and opportunities to address it.
A brand-new world-class research facility, the National Thin-Film Cluster Facility (NTCF) for Advanced Functional Materials, hosted by the Department of Physics, was officially launched last week.
XTX Markets is partnering with the University to fund a scholarship programme for the academic year 2023/24 supporting graduate students studying in MPLS.
University of Oxford academics have contributed to the most comprehensive molecular and chemical analysis of an exoplanet\u2019s atmosphere, enabled by new data from NASA\u2019s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST).
This year\u2019s funding totals \u20ac636 million, with grants awarded through a highly-competitive process. Overall, just 14% of applications were successful this year.
A new study, led by researchers from the Department of Biology and released during World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, has significant findings on how antimicrobial resistance (AMR) arises and persists.
MPLS Associate Head (Education) and Professor of Mathematical Biology, Mike Bonsall, is the latest member of the University to be featured on Oxford Profiles, talking about why he believes Biology is the 'subject of the future'.
Researchers from the Departments of Physics and Earth Sciences have contributed to a highly detailed analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite, which shed light on early solar system conditions and support the theory that meteorites catalysed the emergence of life on Earth.
Air pollutants in the form of tiny particles suspended in air kill around seven million people every year, but also have a buffering effect on climate change. By Peter Manshausen, Duncan Watson-Parris and Philip Stier from the Department of Physics.
We have to stop fossil fuels from causing global warming, before the world stops using fossil fuels, insists physicist and Professor of Geosystem Science Myles Allen, as he outlines an approach to reaching net zero by 2050.
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