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Turns out ancient humans were bad for nature, too!
2015-12-19 02:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Humans got a new nickname this week: The Agents of Disturbance. And boy, do we deserve it. In a new study published in the journal Nature, researchers report that humans have been agents of disturbance on this planet roughly since the dawn of civilization. Starting around 6,000 years ago, we began to fundamentally change the way that plants and other animals coexist something that even mass extinctions and severe climate change havent been able to do on their own. Its not clear exactly how...
United Kingdom: Ancient forms of agriculture could aid remote farming communities
2015-12-16 02:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Tossed up onto Scottish beaches by the tonne, seaweed is finding a place at the table thanks to the fashion for foraged food. But it could also play a vital role in returning acres of abandoned farmland in Scotland to production, according to new research presented at the British Ecological Society's annual meeting in Edinburgh this week. Ecologists from Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and the University of Edinburgh have been studying some of the UK's remotest farming communities -- the talamh...
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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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Kellogg launches ancient grain cereals line in UK
2015-12-08 18:16:11| Agriculture - Topix.net
The six products will vary from granolas to mueslis and cereals and will hit supermarket shelves nationwide from January 2016. Ancient Legends marketing manager Ruth Gresty said: "We're really excited about the release of Ancient Legends.
Ancient pollen reveals droughts between Sierra Nevada glacier surges
2015-11-01 18:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Hidden below the surface of California's Central Valley are pollen grains from the Pleistocene that are providing scientists with clues to the severity of droughts that struck the region between glacial periods. The Pleistocene -- the age of mammoths and mastodons -- occurred between 1.8 million and 11,500 years ago. For this new study, scientists dug up Pleistocene sediment samples containing buried pollen from the Central Valley. They found that pollen samples dated from interglacial periods --...
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