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Wool in the 21st Century: new prospects for a familiar fibre
2014-09-01 10:45:35| Apparel & textile industry market research - from just-style.com
This brand new title from just-style takes a look at this rather forgotten, yet unique textile fibre and examines the place of wool fibre in the textile value chain. It addresses its decline in popula
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Southwest U. S. may face 'megadrought' this century
2014-08-28 02:11:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Due to global warming, scientists say, the chances of the southwestern United States experiencing a decade long drought is at least 50 percent, and the chances of a "megadrought" -- one that lasts over 30 years -- ranges from 20 to 50 percent over the next century. The study by Cornell University, University of Arizona and U.S. Geological Survey researchers will be published in a forthcoming issue of the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Climate. "For the southwestern U.S., I'm not...
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RESEARCH: Wool makes a comeback as a 21st century fibre
2014-08-11 15:21:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
While global wool production for the 2014/2015 year is forecast to be at its lowest level for 70 years, its prospects for future growth are positive, according to a new report from just-style.
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Pacific dead zone has been shrinking for a century
2014-08-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: Huge areas of ocean could suffocate as a result of global warming. But one of these "dead zones" has been shrinking for a century, we now know. Freak local conditions may be at work, but the discovery offers hope that at least one region of the ocean will still be breathable. Most tropical coastlines have oxygen minimum zones, which form when plankton die, sink and get eaten by bacteria, a process that consumes oxygen. The majority of marine animals cannot breathe in low-oxygen water, and either...
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A nation prepares to turn off the lights to mark a century since Britain went to war
2014-08-04 04:24:39| Biotech - Topix.net
Wales joins rest of nation to switch off lights at 10pm tomorrow to mark a century since Britain declared war on Germany The lights will go out across Wales tomorrow as the nation marks the centenary of the moment Britain went to war in 1914.
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