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FEATURE | International alliance conducts deep-sea research mission in Maldives

An alliance of international partners has completed a systematic survey of ocean life in the Maldives, covering an area between the surface of the Indian Ocean to depths ..

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Nine in 10 major ports exposed to climatic and geophysical risks: University of Oxford research

New study from the University of Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute (ECI) shows that 86% of all ports worldwide are exposed to more than three types of climatic and geophysical hazards, resulting in escalating economic impacts on global trade.

Ports are usually located in hazard-prone areas along the coast and close to rivers – exposed to storms and floods – and will have to cope with sea level rise and more severe storms because of climate change, and this could cause physical damages...

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COLUMN | Battle of the s̶u̶b̶s̶e̶a̶ subsidy robots? Eidesvik, Fortescue, Fugro, Maersk, Ocean Infinity, XOcean [Offshore Accounts]

Every child knows that it is best if their parents pay for stuff. Even big, grown-up companies like it when governments play mum and dad, and hand them cash. This week we ..

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Oxford Study Finds Even ‘Low-risk Drinking’ Leads To Brain Damage

  • Researchers from the University of Oxford studied the relationship between the self-reported alcohol intake of some 25,000 people in the UK, and their brain scans.
  • The team investigated whether certain drinking patterns, beverage types and other health conditions made a difference to the impact of alcohol on brain health.

There is no such thing as a “safe” level of drinking, with increased consumption of alcohol associated with poorer brain health, reports CNN.

Alcohol effect on gray matter

In...

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A Million People Left UK In The Covid Pandemic?

According to a study, nearly 1.3 million foreign-born people may have left UK between 2019 and 2020, says an article published in BBC news.

The number of people living in the UK could have fallen significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic.

ESCOE report 

The report, by the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCOE), was followed by a similar study from University of Oxford, which suggested that between about 400,000 and 600,000 people had departed.

Younger working-age people in their 20s and...

https://mfame.guru/a-million-people-left-uk-in-the-covid-pandemic/

AstraZeneca Rolls Out University of Oxford’s COVID-19 Vaccine

  • British drugmaker AstraZeneca has started manufacturing the University of Oxford’s potential coronavirus vaccine.
  • It is manufactured ahead of trial results and has doubled its capacity to two billion doses.
  • The company is not going to wait for clinical results, which is expected to have in August.
  • The vaccine will be available for people in the U.K. by September if the trial proves successful.
  • It has struck a $750 million agreement with health organizations backed by Gates and his wife Melinda.

https://mfame.guru/astrazeneca-rolls-out-university-of-oxfords-covid-19-vaccine/

Human Trials for COVID-19 Vaccine Begins!

  • Human clinical trials of a potential coronavirus vaccine are all set to begin.
  • It is being developed by scientists at the University of Oxford.
  • They believe that there is an 80 percent chance of success.
  • A sum of £20million of public money has been provided for each of the vaccine development projects.
  • Another institute trying to develop a vaccine for COVID-19 is the Imperial College London.
  • They said that the super-fast vaccine will be available by September.

According to an article published...

http://mfame.guru/human-trials-for-covid-19-vaccine-begins-in-the-uk/