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According to the report, Europe Today and Tomorrow: What Europeans Want, based on a March 2021 poll of 13,601 people, conducted in the 27 member states and the UK, it provides ‘mixed reading’ for the EU.

Concerns over European Union in Oxford EU-wide survey

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Credit: Shutterstock. True Planet: The world is in a climate crisis, and Oxford researchers are at the forefront of trying to find solutions in adaptation and resilience, nature, energy transition, clean road transport and green finance.

Nature-based solutions highly effective in long term - Oxford research

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Finding and understanding this network of coordinated accounts was a seven-month-long challenge which required a mix of methodological innovation and creativity

Fanatic fans or fake followers? Chinese diplomats and their social media networks

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Credit: Shutterstock. People may work with beavers on the restoration, rather than controlling them. The beavers, who are best placed to deliver sustainable results, are left to make positive changes in the landscape.

Nature must be a partner, not just a provider of services – Oxford report

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highly bonded fans were particularly likely get tied up in aggressive behaviours – especially if they used cocaine

Cocaine drives supporters’ aggression in football - study

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Among OECD countries, liberties were most severely impacted in those that chose mitigation, whereas swift lockdown measures - in line with elimination - were less strict and of shorter duration

Policies for COVID-19 elimination, not mitigation, best for health, economy and civil liberties

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We have described a potential role for general anaesthesia in end-of-life care. This has, in reality, been available to UK patients since the 1990s, but is not commonly discussed or provided

General anaesthesia should be available for dying patients - medical and ethical experts

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Credit: Shutterstock. Using cutting-edge methodology, in which the daily movements of more than 100,000 maritime vessels were tracked, the team was able to identify global maritime trade collapse by as much as 10% in the first eight months of 2020 – leadi

Tracking the economic impacts of COVID-19 one ship at a time

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Net zero targets now cover two thirds of the global economy, according to a report today from Oxford Net Zero and the ECIU – even though it was only a decade ago that Oxford climate scientists first showed the need to reach net zero emissions

Net Zero pledges go global, now action needs to follow words - Oxford-ECIU report

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Credit: Shutterstock. One in five children in low-income countries lives in extreme poverty, while declining living standards over the last decade has resulted in a quarter of children in the UK now being affected by poverty.

Oxford awarded major funding to probe childhood poverty and social inequalities

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