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Fur and Feathers Keep Animals Warm by Scattering Light
2014-01-23 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
In work that has major implications for improving performance of building insulation, scientists at the University of Namur in Belgium and the University of Hassan I in Morocco have calculated that hairs that reflect IR light may contribute insulating power to exceptionally warm winter coats of polar bears and other animals. Paper titled "Radiative contribution to the thermal conductance in animal furs and other wooly insulators," was published in OSA's Optics Express open-access journal. This story is related to the following:Trade Associations
Fur and Leather Apparel Manufacturing Industry in the U.S. and its International Trade [2013 Q3 Edition]
2013-08-16 02:00:00| Apparel & textile industry market research - from just-style.com
NEW 158-page report covers 10 years of key industry-wide statistics. PLUS supply chain analysis of 25 upstream and 20 downstream industries. INSIGHT into 120 countries US exported to and 99 countries
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Fur and Leather Apparel Manufacturing Industry in the U.S. and its International Trade [2013 Q2 Edition]
2013-05-20 02:00:00| Apparel & textile industry market research - from just-style.com
NEW 158-page report covers 10 years of key industry-wide statistics. PLUS supply chain analysis of 25 upstream and 20 downstream industries. INSIGHT into 120 countries US exported to and 99 countries
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US: Retailers settle FTC "faux fur" charges
2013-03-20 14:10:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Three US retailers have agreed to settle charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) of misleading consumers over "faux fur" clothing and footwear products.
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Could climate change cost polar bears their white fur?
2013-03-18 23:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Anchorage Daily News: It's long been known that the brown bears found on islands in Southeast Alaska are more closely related to polar bears than other brown bears. Now scientists wonder if they're a harbinger of what's to come for polar bears in the warming high Arctic. Researcher Beth Shapiro of the University of California in Santa Cruz told the Canadian Press the bears on Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof islands (known as the ABC bears) appear to be descended from a polar bear population that got cut off from other...
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