June 16, 2020 – A new study in The Auk: Ornithological Advances, published by Oxford University Press, suggests that wildfires change the types of songs sung by birds living in nearby forests. Hermit Warblers sing a formulaic song to attract mates, in contrast with a repertoire of more complex songs they use to defend territories. There […]
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U.S. counties with more historical immigration have higher incomes, less poverty, and lower unemployment today
March 15, 2019 – A new study in the Review of Economic Studies finds that U.S. counties with more historical immigration have higher incomes, less poverty, and lower unemployment today. An important issue in current American political discourse is the effect that immigrants have on the communities in which they settle. While this topic has […]
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Astronomers detect hundreds of thousands of previously unknown galaxies
Feb. 19, 2019 – An international team of more than 200 astronomers from 18 countries, including researchers from the University of Oxford, has published the first phase of the survey at unprecedented sensitivity using the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) telescope. Radio astronomy reveals processes in the Universe that we cannot see with optical instruments. In […]
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Oxford: A century and a half of reconstructed ocean warming offers clues for the future
Jan. 8, 2019 – Over the past century, increased greenhouse gas emissions have given rise to an excess of energy in the Earth system. More than 90% of this excess energy has been absorbed by the ocean, leading to increased ocean temperatures and associated sea level rise, while moderating surface warming. The multi-disciplinary team of […]
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Kicking the car(bon) habit better for air pollution than electric cars
May 31, 2018 – Published in Energy Efficiency, the study uses Scotland as an example and suggests that radical lifestyle change can show quicker results than the gradual transition to electric vehicles and phasing out of conventional petrol and diesel vehicles. Scotland has committed itself to reduce carbon emissions by 80% of 1990 levels by […]
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Aliens may be more like us than we think
November 2, 2017 – In a new study published in the International Journal of Astrobiology scientists from the University of Oxford show for the first time how evolutionary theory can be used to support alien predictions and better understand their behavior. They show that aliens are potentially shaped by the same processes and mechanisms that […]
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How 14 Billion Dollars Protected Earth’s Species
Oct. 27, 2017 – For twenty-five years, we have known that we need to spend more on nature conservation, or face a modern mass extinction as serious as that of the dinosaurs. But governments and donors have been unwilling to come up with the necessary budgets, often because there was little hard evidence that the […]
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Affluent countries contribute less to wildlife conservation than the rest of the world
May 4, 2017 – Less affluent countries are more committed to conservation of their large animals than richer ones, a new Oxford University research collaboration has found. Researchers from Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation Research Unit (WildCRU) have assessed how much, or little, individual countries contribute to protecting the world’s wildlife. Working in partnership with Panthera, the […]