Activities in the transition area of Niubeiliang include agriculture, animal husbandry, forest products.

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Metagenomics takes another approach, basically putting an entire environment--the water in an ocean, the soil in a forest or the insides of an animal--into a DNA sequencer.

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' Furry little dassie (rock hyrax) scurry along the forest floor - incongruously, the animal's closest relatives are elephants, though they look more like overgrown guinea pigs.

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There is already so little old-growth forest left that it threatens the long-term survival of many plant and animal species, so continuing to log such forests is deeply irresponsible.

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"There's just a lot more freedom, " said Summer Thornton, a Chicago designer who mixed bold 1960s fabrics with animal prints in the space she decorated at a show home in Lake Forest, Ill.

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