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Living fossils: the plants holding the key to ancient and modern climate change
2015-12-14 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ask the average person to name a living fossil, the chances are they will think of the coelacanth, or perhaps horseshoe crabs. However, plant examples of living fossils are all around us, surviving from long before the rise of todays dominant plants. The flowering plants, or angiosperms, are the basis of our food chain and include grasses and broad-leaved trees. But seed plants such as conifers and cycads, and even ancient spore producers such as ferns and clubmosses, continue to earn a living in...
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Study uncovers influence of Earth's history on the dawn of modern birds
2015-12-11 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] New research led by the American Museum of Natural History reveals that the evolution of modern birds was greatly shaped by the history of our planet's geography and climate. The DNA-based work, published today in the journal Science Advances, finds that birds arose in what is now South America around 90 million years ago, and radiated extensively around the time of the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that killed off the non-avian dinosaurs. The new research suggest…
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Commissioner Novick, Director Treat to celebrate Portlands first diagonal crosswalk with modern square dance group
2015-12-03 22:13:42| PortlandOnline
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Act vs Action - Legislation not enough to combat modern slavery
2015-12-03 10:44:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Leslie Johnston, executive director of the C&A Foundation and a board director at GoodWeave believes the UK's Modern Slavery Act - which obligates large companies to report and declare their steps to address slavery - can only do so much. She is instead calling on businesses to take a broader approach to abolish slavery within supply chains and engage consumers to create change.
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Russia to open modern textile finishing plant
2015-12-01 14:29:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
A state-of-the-art textile finishing plant is being set up in Russia's Rostov region by consumer goods firm and clothing manufacturer BTK-Group to manufacture textile dyes for the domestic market.
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