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The United Nations Conference of the Parties for Biodiversity (COP15) is a critical opportunity for countries to agree an ambitious global plan to halt and reverse species loss. Image credit: Shutterstock.

Oxford University delegation to champion nature at UN biodiversity conference

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Environment
Policy
Aldabra atoll west channels. Image credit: Seychelles Islands Foundation.

Big egos, lack of staff training and policy enforcement are major barriers to island conservation

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Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
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Ice Shelf in the Weddell Sea, seen from The SA Agulhas II research vessel during the field research. Image credit: Nekton 2022.

Synthetic fibres discovered in Antarctic samples show the ‘pristine’ continent is now a sink for plastic pollution

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Plastics
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Science
The Omega Seamaster II submersible surveys the vertical walls of the Maldives subsea topography. These cliffs often descended from 30metres to 250metres and further to 500metres, a defining physical characteristic of the new ecosystem ‘The Trapping Zone’,

Discovery of new ecosystem - ‘The Trapping Zone’ - creating oasis of life in the Maldives

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Conservation
Environment
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Science
Sustainability
An Omega Seamaster 2 submersible being launched during an expedition by Nekton to the Seychelles in 2019

Oxford University to support deep-sea expedition to the Maldives

Biology
Conservation
Environment
Research
Science
Sustainability
A red deer on the Isle of Rum

Lonely old deers: ageing red deer become less social as they grow older

Biology
Conservation
Environment
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
A photograph of an African elephant

Elephant genes could hold the key to avoiding cancers

Biology
Cancer
Conservation
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science
Photography of working donkey with shepherd

Sale of donkey skins linked to trade in illegal wildlife products

Biology
Business
Conservation
Research
Botanic Garden and Magdalen Tower

Researchers assess Oxford University's impacts on biodiversity and how to mitigate them

Climate change
Conservation
Environment
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
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University
Photograph of an elephant calf in northern Kenya

No rest for new elephant mothers

Biology
Conservation
Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
Research
Science

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