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« Back to NewsNew method shows promise for locating deposits of critical metals
10 March 2023
Earth sciences Research Sustainability & the environment
A new technique developed by researchers in the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford could help locate new deposits of critical metals needed to enable the green-energy transition.
Operation Pangolin launches to save world’s most trafficked wild mammal
17 February 2023
Biology Sustainability & the environment
Ahead of World Pangolin Day tomorrow, the University of Oxford announces that it is joining a bold initiative to save this iconic animal: Operation Pangolin.
From The Conversation: Deep sea reefs are spectacular and barely-explored – they must be conserved
26 January 2023
Biology Research Sustainability & the environment The Conversation
Largely hidden from the masses lie great expanses of deep reefs, which collectively have a larger geographic footprint than their shallower counterparts.
New study shows that most plastic debris on Seychelles beaches comes from far-off sources
19 January 2023
Biology Earth sciences Research Sustainability & the environment
A new high-resolution model to quantify the sources of plastic debris accumulating on beaches across the Seychelles and other island states in the western Indian Ocean reveals that most of this waste originates from distant sources and not from the islands themselves.
Raising the minimum age of trophy hunted lions could make hunting more sustainable
13 January 2023
Biology Research Sustainability & the environment
Raising the minimum age threshold for trophy hunted male lions, and accounting for additional deaths caused by poaching and conflict with people, could increase hunting sustainability, suggests a new study from WildCRU, based in the Department of Biology.
Organisations must set bold targets for their catering to become 'nature-positive'
12 January 2023
Biology Research Sustainability & the environment
Making catering more sustainable can make genuine positive contributions, but coming close to fully mitigating biodiversity loss within the current food system will take extremely ambitious action.
Global coalition of experts urge COP15 negotiators to uphold 2030 targets
12 December 2022
Biology Sustainability & the environment
Researchers and conservation experts reinforce the need for ambitious targets by 2030 to focus, motivate and finance actions to start reversing biodiversity loss.
New study highlights urgent need to safeguard deep reefs
12 December 2022
Biology Research Sustainability & the environment
University of Oxford researchers have contributed to a study which found that very few deep reefs have any form of protection, despite facing a multitude of threats.
Oxford leads Nature Positive Universities Alliance to reverse biodiversity decline
8 December 2022
Biology Sustainability & the environment
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.
Most Asian countries are unlikely to meet future biodiversity targets for protected areas
5 December 2022
Biology Climate Food security & biodiversity Sustainability & the environment
Ahead of COP15, researchers make key recommendations for policymakers to support Asian countries to meet 2030 biodiversity targets.
Oxford researchers find plastic pollution in Antarctic Weddell Sea
28 November 2022
Begbroke Biology Sustainability & the environment
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.
We must stop fossil fuels causing global warming, before the world stops using fossil fuels - Prof Myles Allen
11 November 2022
Climate Energy Physics Sustainability & the environment
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.
Discovery of new ecosystem - ‘The Trapping Zone’ - creating oasis of life in the Maldives
24 October 2022
Biology Research Sustainability & the environment
The Nekton Maldives Mission, involving Oxford marine biologists, has found evidence of a previously undescribed ecosystem - ‘The Trapping Zone’ - that is creating an oasis of life 500 metres down in the depths of the Indian Ocean. The discovery has been hailed as highly significant by the Maldives Government.
MPLS researchers amongst four from Oxford to be awarded £100,000 Philip Leverhulme prizes
21 October 2022
Award Climate Engineering Materials science Research Sustainability & the environment
Four researchers from across the University of Oxford, including two from the Department of Materials and the Department of Engineering Science, have been awarded Philip Leverhulme prizes – the largest number awarded to researchers of any single UK university.
Oxford to collaborate with Digital University Kerala on nanotechnology, AI, sustainability, digital health, and innovation
13 October 2022
AI and data science Innovation and Enterprise Materials science Physical sciences underpinning health Research Sustainability & the environment
The University of Oxford has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a new collaboration with the Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology in India (known as Digital University Kerala or DUK).
OSCAR research team wins regional finals of 'Maker in China' SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest
6 October 2022
Award Energy Innovation and Enterprise Materials science Research Sustainability & the environment
A team of researchers from the Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) in China, the University of Oxford’s only engineering and physical sciences research institute outside of the UK, has won first place in the regional finals of the ‘Maker in China’ Jiangsu SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship Contest 2022.
Students take up Black Academic Futures Scholarships thanks to support from 'activist investor’
28 September 2022
Funding Materials science Sustainability & the environment Women in science
A DPhil candidate in the Department of Materials is amongst three 2022-entry Scholars to embark on postgraduate studies with support from the Black Academic Futures programme, with a fourth Scholar due to join in 2023/24.
Physics professor wins Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy
11 August 2022
Award Energy Physics Sustainability & the environment
Professor Henry Snaith has been awarded the University of Louisville’s 2021 Leigh Ann Conn Prize for Renewable Energy. Awarded biennially, this award recognises outstanding ideas and achievements in research around the science, engineering, technology, and commercialisation of renewable energy.
MPLS staff recognised at 2022 Vice-Chancellor’s Environmental Sustainability Awards
14 July 2022
Award Biology Chemistry Climate MPLS Sustainability & the environment Women in science Zoology
Members of MPLS departments were amongst those recognised at the University's seventh Environmental Sustainability Awards today, hosted by Vice Chancellor, Dame Professor Louise Richardson.
Nadja Yang recognised by Women's Engineering Society with 'Top 50 Women in Engineering - Inventors and Innovators' award
23 June 2022
Award Engineering Sustainability & the environment Women in science
DPhil Systems Engineering student, Nadja Yang has been recognised as one of the UK's top 50 women engineers who are creating or significantly improving products or processes to make a difference in the world, on International Women in Engineering Day.