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Ancient climate change picked the crops we eat today
2013-08-16 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Thank climate change for our daily bread. High levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere after the last ice age drove us to cultivate wheat. Farming arose in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East 10,000 years ago. Over the next two millennia, people all over the world took up the practice. This suggests that some global event triggered this simultaneous development. A spike in atmospheric CO2 seen after the last ice age has been put forward as the culprit - the gas was released from the...
Ancient Greek tree gets new life in N. Mich.
2013-08-09 17:14:47| Biotech - Topix.net
A northern Michigan nursery says it successfully cloned an ancient tree that was a gift to the U.S. government from Greece.
Apple's ancient iPhones open new territories
2013-07-24 03:02:48| CNET News.com
Apple is using its older phones to play in emerging markets and attract first-time buyers to the iOS ecosystem, and perhaps to pave the way for a new lower-cost iPhone. [Read more]
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Ancient ice melt unearthed in Antarctic mud: 20 meter sea level rise, five million years ago
2013-07-22 03:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Global warming five million years ago may have caused parts of Antarctica's large ice sheets to melt and sea levels to rise by approximately 20 metres, scientists report today in the journal Nature Geoscience. The researchers, from Imperial College London, and their academic partners studied mud samples to learn about ancient melting of the East Antarctic ice sheet. They discovered that melting took place repeatedly between five and three million years ago, during a geological period called Pliocene...
Struggling farmers in India find promise in ancient seeds
2013-06-14 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environment Health: In India, climate change is already forcing farmers to adapt to saltwater intrusion, flooding and droughts. International scientists are racing to breed a new batch of climate-resilient super seeds that can survive these changes. But many traditional farmers are instead relying on the seeds that sustained their ancestors.
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