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The Maritime Silk Road: China's High Seas Ambitions  
With its Maritime Silk Road, China is tapping the world's oceans for its own strategic purposes. It's a bold plan that is causing unease in India and the United States -- and also has implications for Europe.  
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.@WildlifeAtRisk No legalised trade in ANY endangered species should be permitted. @CITES is failing our #wildlife through commercialism 
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Pacific to make its mark at endangered #species trade talks @CITES #CoP17 https://t.co/CuN8TnRT3y #wildlife https://t.co/0jKzHygbsN 
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Britain's dormice have declined by a third since 2000, report shows  

Effects of habitat loss and climate change mean the future of the tiny native mammal is uncertain

Numbers of Britain's native dormouse have declined by more than a third since 2000, according to the first definitive report on the state of the species.

The tiny, golden-brown animals were once widespread throughout England and Wales, but have become one of Britain's most threatened mammals due to loss and fragmentation of their woodland habitat, changes in land management and a warmer climate.

Related: How the dormouse is returning to England's hedgerows after 100 years

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Genetic analysis uncovers four species of giraffe, not just one  
Up until now, scientists had only recognized a single species of giraffe made up of several subspecies. But, according to the most inclusive genetic analysis of giraffe relationships to date, giraffes actually aren't one species, but four. The unexpected findings highlight the urgent need for further study of the four genetically isolated species and for greater conservation efforts for the world's tallest mammal, the researchers say.  
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The Politics of Dress: Double Standards in the Headscarf Debate  
When cultures clash, women's clothing is often at the center of the debate. While for Western women, the issue is how much skin they should be allowed to show, for Muslims the focus is on how much they must show.  
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Colours of the morning - East London  

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Indigo bunting  

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Indigo buntings often migrate by night, using the stars to navigate. The seasonality of bird migration is shifting in response to climate change. As a result, birds in the United States are arriving at their northern breeding grounds earlier in spring -- and may be departing later in fall. Scientists supported by the National Science Foundation made the migration shift discovery thanks to information aggregated from two sources: remote-sensing data from weather surveillance radar and ground-based data collected in citizen science databases.

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Smartphone hacks 3-D printer by measuring 'leaked' energy, acoustic waves  

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The ubiquity of smartphones and their sophisticated gadgetry makes them an ideal tool to steal sensitive data from 3-D printers. That's according to a new University at Buffalo study that explores security vulnerabilities of 3-D printing, also called additive manufacturing, which analysts say will become a multibillion-dollar industry employed to build everything from rocket engines to heart valves. Unlike most security hacks, the researchers did not simulate a cyberattack. Instead, the researchers programmed a common smartphone's built-in sensors to measure electromagnetic energy and acoustic waves that emanate from 3-D printers. These sensors can infer the location of the print nozzle as it moves to create the three-dimensional object being printed. According to the researchers, the tests show that smartphones are quite capable of retrieving enough data to put sensitive information at risk.

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