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Endangered Thames eels to benefit from latest science
Critically endangered eels in the Thames will benefit from new research that sheds light on how the creatures navigate the waters to swim up the river’s estuary.
Scientists from the University of Nottingham, HR Wallingford and the University of Southampton worked with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) on the research published in Ecological Modelling. It explores the theory of where the eels swim, and at what depths, which will help conservationists to identify problem areas in the Thames and secure funding for measures to help the eels migrate safely.
A nurse preparing a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine at a mass vaccination centre in Surrey. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/EPA
Sharing UK Covid vaccines with countries in Europe and beyond is in the UK’s best interests, scientists have said, as the row over supplies intensifies.
A dispute has sprung up between the UK and EU over the supply of Covid vaccines, after the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca told the EU it would not be able to deliver all of the doses ordered by the end of March due to production problems at plants on the continent. AstraZeneca said its contract with the UK meant doses could only be shipped from UK plants to Europe once the UK had received the 100m doses it had ordered.
Harry Pettit, Senior Digital Technology and Science Reporter
28 Jan 2021, 16:08
BRITAIN and America are growing further apart due to the unusual movement of magma under the Earth s crust, research has found.
Experts from the UK dropped seismometers to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and found deep geological forces previously unknown to science.
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They re thought to be partly responsible for the glacial movement of tectonic plates which pulls the Americas apart from Europe and Africa by a few centimetres each year.
According to the research team, the finding sheds light on mysterious processes beneath our planet s crust.
Dr Kate Rychert, an expert at the University of Southampton who worked on the project, said the discovery has broad implications for our understanding of Earth’s evolution and habitability .
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Two crossed lines that form an X . It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. A map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. NASA Earth Observatory map by Joshua Stevens, using data from Sandwell, D. et al. (2014).
The tectonic plates under the Americas, Europe, and Africa are being pushed apart as the Atlantic Ocean widens year by year.
New research reveals what s pushing the plates apart: Material from deep within the Earth is bursting upward at an undersea ridge in the middle of the Atlantic.
The Atlantic Ocean grows 1.5 inches wider every year.
That s because the tectonic plates undergirding the Americas are separating from those beneath Europe and Africa. But precisely how and why that is happening has been a mystery to scientists, since the geological forces that typically push plates apart aren t prevalent in the Atlantic.
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