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According to the research, Stand Your Ground laws were associated with 8% to 11% national increases in homicide and firearm homicide rates. Florida saw the highest increase with a 28% monthly rise in homicides. Credit: Shutterstock.

US Stand Your Ground laws are associated with 700 additional homicides every year

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The Agile Initiative at the University’s Oxford Martin School will deliver high-impact interdisciplinary research and contribute urgently-needed answers to inform environmental policy

Oxford fast-paced research programme for environmental solutions wins £10 million official backing

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We are equally worried about the potential negative long-term impacts of severe malnutrition on children’s growing bodies and minds, as witnessed by our long-running study

Unprecedented crises trigger severe hunger in southern Ethiopia

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Olenii Ostrov location

Climate change in the Early Holocene - archaeology report

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insecurity of income and the inadequacy of income for those out of work could adversely affect mental well-being and the stability of relationships

Stress for couples on Universal Credit as living costs soar - new research

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In South Africa, windfarms in optimum locations would cost the country 16.7% less per unit of energy than if it were to build more coal power plants.

Invest strategically in wind and solar farms in Africa - Oxford study

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We face a torrent of misinformation on topics great and small. The Royal Society report reviews the challenges of misinformation and what steps we can take to deal with them. It does not call for content removal as a panacea. Credit: Shutterstock

Royal Society cautions against online censorship of scientific misinformation

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The new Oxford nature recovery centre will harness state-of-the-art technologies designed to deliver nature recovery at scale and monitor progress towards this recovery. Credit: Shutterstock.

Leverhulme Trust awards £10 million to new Oxford nature recovery centre

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long production chains facilitate faster price reduction in industries and faster GDP growth in economies

New study finds economic progress is aided by longer supply chains and deeper networks

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In countries where vaccine coverage was previously low, certification was associated with a significant increase in additional vaccine doses per million people...However...where there were higher average vaccination rates before certification was introduc

COVID-19 certificates may boost vaccine uptake in countries with below average coverage – Oxford study

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