Exploring the deep-time roots of plant diversity
The origin of vascular plants, more than 400 million years ago, changed the surface of our planet forever.
Plants & Animals
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Pacific-Atlantic railroad will respect environment: Chinese premier
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has said that the Beijing-funded project to build a vast railroad between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, across Peru, would respect the region's environment including the Amazon basin.
Environment
May 23, 2015
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Philippines says Chinese reclamation damaged reefs
China has wrought widespread environmental damage in the South China Sea with its construction of artificial islands on disputed reefs, the Philippines said Monday.
Environment
Apr 13, 2015
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East Asian human activities affect air quality in remote tropical forests
Researchers from the UK and Malaysia have detected a human fingerprint deep in the Borneo rainforest in Southeast Asia. Cold winds blowing from the north carry industrial pollutants from East Asia to the equator, with implications ...
Environment
Mar 31, 2015
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Blooming row over cherry blossom splits China, Korea, Japan
A perennial debate over the birthplace of the cherry blossom has taken a fresh turn as a Chinese industry group claims the Asian giant is the tree's true home, rather than Japan or claimant South Korea.
Environment
Mar 30, 2015
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Japan sees 25 billion cyberattacks in 2014
More than 25 billion cyberattacks on the Japanese government and other bodies were logged in 2014, an agency said Tuesday, with 40 percent of them traced to China.
Security
Feb 17, 2015
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China smartphone maker Xiaomi wants a bite of Apple
When the charismatic founder of upstart Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi took the stage at an Internet conference, he was open about his ambition: world domination.
Business
Jan 8, 2015
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Science brings reason to duels over resources
Wars have been foretold in future scenarios where climate change and population pressures over-stress shared river resources. Scientists believe they can rewrite this grim prophecy.
Social Sciences
Nov 3, 2014
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NASA sees Typhoon Kalmaegi as a whirlpool of clouds in the South China Sea
NASA's Aqua satellite observed Typhoon Kalmaegi crossing the South China Sea and a satellite image from the MODIS instrument aboard made it look like a whirlpool of clouds.
Earth Sciences
Sep 15, 2014
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Museum workers pronounce dobsonfly found in China, largest aquatic insect
Workers with the Insect Museum of West China, who were recently given several very large dragon-fly looking insects, with long teeth, by locals in a part of Sichuan, have declared it, a giant dobsonfly the largest known aquatic ...
