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The world must tackle the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss together, two UN expert groups meeting together said Thursday, warning against measures to combat global warming that harm nature. In the first ever collaboration between the United Nations' intergovernmental panels on climate and nature loss, the scientists said that while the twin threats were mutually reinforcing, they had historically been treated as if they were.
Biodiversity Is The Tapestry Of Life May 21, 2021, 6:39 PM IST
A former associate editor of The Times of India, leader writer and editor of The Speaking Tree, Narayani Ganesh writes on issues concerning the environment, science and technology, travel and tourism, heritage, philosophy, spirituality and health. LESS. MORE
Browsing through images of other species, you may begin to think that perhaps no other species is more ugly and useless than the human. Most birds can boast of their splendid plumage; that they facilitate seed propagation and soil enrichment and that they never foul their own nest. They are happy creatures, chirping away, eating what they can find, taking care of their young ones, and winging across oceans and mountains, dales and valleys.
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The origin of flowering plants famously puzzled Charles Darwin, who described their sudden appearance in the fossil record from relatively recent geological times as an abominable mystery . This mystery has further deepened with an inexplicable discrepancy between the relatively recent fossil record and a much older time of origin of flowering plants estimated using genome data.
Now a team of scientists from Switzerland, Sweden, the UK, and China may have solved the puzzle. Their results show flowering plants indeed originated in the Jurassic or earlier, that is millions of years earlier than their oldest undisputed fossil evidence, according to a new study published in the scientific journal