CICRA's chief executive Andrew Riseley said the main aim of the study was to provide more transparency to consumers.

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The aim of the study was to compare two groups of animals that lived during periods when sea ice extent and pollution levels were very different.

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Prof Majid Ezzati, who also worked on the research, said a major aim of the study was to find out what was being done to help people in different places and what could be done differently.

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Mr Smit's aim was to bring a showbiz element to the study of plants.

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The aim of the 17 month-long Mars500 project was to study the physical and psychological effects that the much longer journey to Mars might have on future astronauts.

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