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PPC Announces Winners of 2024 North American Paperboard Packaging Competition

Winners included Smurfit Westrock’s PETCollar™ Shield Plus, a sustainable alternative to plastic in the multi-pack beverage segment.





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IKO Launches ‘Next-Gen’ Website for North American Markets

IKO, the Canadian roofing, waterproofing, and insulation manufacturer, launched a new website for IKO Commercial users with a mobile-friendly design, geotargeting, enhanced navigation and more. 




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North America's Voice Market to Soar

Verified Market Reports expects the North American voice recognition systems market to grow by 17.2 percent through 2025.




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Futaba North America Group to standardise automotive manufacturing operations on the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform

Plex, by Rockwell Automation, the cloud-delivered smart manufacturing solutions provider, has announced that automotive supplier Futaba North America Group (FNA) has selected the Plex Smart Manufacturing Platform as a state-of-the-art, complete and integrated manufacturing and business solution to run their North American operations.




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The Vikings settled in North America 500 years before Christopher Colombus, study reveals

The Vikings settled in North America 500 years before Christopher Colombus, study reveals




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As Wildfires Explode, Smoke Billows Across a Vast Expanse of North America

Dramatic remote sensing imagery reveals the large-scale impact of Canadian wildfires. Blazes also are raging in the United States and the Siberian Arctic.




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Fast, wet and furious: How the North American monsoon floods the California desert

The North American monsoon plays an important role in the climate of the Four Corners states, bringing crucial moisture to areas that would otherwise be dry.




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Christian Lee Hutson Kicking Off 2025 With North American Tour

Christian Lee Hutson has announced a North American tour kicking off in January 2025 in support of his lauded new album Paradise Pop. 10




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My Chemical Romance Launching North American Stadium Tour

My Chemical Romance (Gerard Way, Ray Toro, Frank Iero, and Mikey Way) will be celebrating The Black Parade this coming summer




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Movements Reveal North American Tour Plans

Movements announced their 2025 North American Tour, joined by special guests Citizen, Scowl, and Downward




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Is AC/DC About To Announce A North American Tour?

Seems like it'll get announced this week.







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IOD North American Championship Day One

The International One Design [IOD] North American Championship got underway in the Great Sound. After four races on day one, Bill McNiven leads the fleet with 5 net points, this after winning the first three races, and then he finished 2nd in the fourth race of the day. Craig Davis who won the final race […]




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McNiven Wins IOD North American Championship

Four more races in the International One Design [IOD] North American championship took place on the Great Sound. After a total of eight races, Bill McNiven was crowned the champion with 13 net points, this after finishing third in three races on the day, he also finished 2nd in a race. Ned Johnston won three […]




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Human tracks may be earliest evidence of people in North America

Footprints in New Mexico’s White Sands National Park challenge scientists’ timeline of when humans first came to North America.




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Edward Curtis: Photographing the North American Indian

A close look reveals how the famed photographer altered his glass negatives, creating the popular image of Native Americans that still exists today




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The Endangered Orchids of North America

The North American Orchid Conservation Center is working to ensure the survival of some of the most unique plants in the world




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Invasive Mussels Recently Spotted in California Mark a First for North America

The species may have been carried to the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta in ballast water on ships




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This made-in-North Bay board game pits players in a race across North America

Éric Boutilier and Mark Sherry are launching their new board game, Tripped, which was five years in the making.



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American Birding Association announces North American headquarters moving to Delaware City

Governor Markell joined officers from the American Birding Association (ABA) to announce the ABA’s plans to move its North American headquarters from Colorado to Delaware next year.



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Microsoft makes a crossborder connection in North America

While governments grow more protectionist over trade and physical borders, companies such as Microsoft are bridging the gap by funding international collaborative enterprises.




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Is North America set for another bad wildfire smoke season?

Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada and Mexico is already worsening air quality in the US, but some signs suggest clearer skies than last year




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The shifting history of North America's ancient ice sheet

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Imagining a vast ice sheet sprawling over Canada and extending down into what is now the northern United States, reaching as far south as Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, helps us grasp the scope of ancient glacial coverage between 19,000 and 26,000 years ago. Yet, while picturing this immense ice mass is fascinating, the present-day implications of its retreat - parti




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Premier Ford pitches kicking Mexico out of North American free trade pact

Ontario Premier Doug Ford appears to be dipping his toe into new territory — talking about removing Mexico from the North American trade agreement.




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Meike Ludewig Takes Role As New Vice President For Area West At Porsche Cars North America

Porsche Cars North America announces Meike Ludewig as the new Vice President for Area West, succeeding Trevor Arthur. Learn more about her career.




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Accent Expert Gives a Tour of North American Accents - (Part 3)

For a third time, dialect coach Erik Singer takes us on a tour of different accents across English-speaking North America. Erik, along with a host of other linguists and language experts, takes a look at some of the most interesting and distinct accents around the United States, Mexico and Canada. Host: Erik Singer Director: Alice Roth Producer: Alyssa Marino & Erik Singer Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan Production Manager: Morgan Winters Editor: Justin Sloan Post Production Manager: Nick Ascanio Head of Programming for WIRED: Chris Conti Linguists: Nicole Holliday, Megan Figueroa, Sunn m’Cheaux, & Kalina Newmark Dialect demonstrations: Amani Dorn Language Nest Revitalization Efforts in Hawaii footage courtesy of ʻŌiwiTV and ʻAha Pūnana Le A huge special thanks to: Pamela Vanderway Eliza Simpson James N. Stanford Nacole Walker Justin McBride Zachary Cooper Reg Charging International Dialects of English Archive The Language & Life Project Talkin’ Tar Heel, How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina Dr. Walt Wolfram ʻŌiwiTV and ʻAha Pūnana Le




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Innovating in less developed regions: what drives patenting in the lagging regions of Europe and North America [electronic journal].




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Administrator Wheeler Discusses North American Environmental and Transboundry Water Issues with Canada, Mexico at CEC

(MEXICO CITY) – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler wrapped up trilateral meetings with Canada and Mexico as part of the 25th Anniversary of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) Council meetings in Mexico City.




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The State of the North American Labour Market

This OECD report was developed in collaboration with the United States, Mexico and Canada, for consideration by the three Leaders in the context of the 2016 North American Leaders Summit.




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Turkey’s trip to table: Domesticating North America’s largest fowl

The turkey has become synonymous with Thanksgiving in the United States. But when exactly where turkeys first domesticated? And where? Bruce Smith, senior archeologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has the answers.

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New archaeological evidence reveals California’s Channel Islands as North America’s earliest seafaring economy

Evidence for a diversified sea-based economy among North American inhabitants dating from 12,200 to 11,400 years ago is emerging from three sites on California's Channel Islands.

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Study reveals environmental impact of American Indian farms centuries before Europeans arrived in North America

The new research reveals that from the period between 1100-1600 small agricultural settlements up and down the Delaware River Valley caused a 50-percent increase in sediment runoff into the Delaware River.

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3-D imaging adds remarkable new understanding of North America’s mysterious Clovis people

The only explanation for such symmetry across these vast distances, explains Smithsonian anthropologist Dennis Stanford, is that the method of creating the points was handed down from person to person.

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NASA funds Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory instrument to track North American air pollution

The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has been awarded a NASA project to build the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument. TEMPO will measure North American air pollution, from Mexico City to the Canadian tar/oil sands, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, hourly and at high spatial resolution.

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Warming temperatures may mean more monarch generations in some areas of North America

Warming temperatures may mean more generations of monarch butterflies in North America during summer months, say scientists who recently finished experiments with monarch caterpillars and […]

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First North American Monkey Fossils Found in Panama Canal Excavation

Seven fossil teeth exposed by the Panama Canal expansion project are the first evidence of a monkey on the North American continent before the Isthmus […]

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Discovery in Smithsonian collection broadens understanding of rare North American leech

Thanks to a recent reassessment of specimens preserved in jars of alcohol at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, New Hampshire is now on […]

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DNA on 100-year-old bat from France may help fight deadly fungus in North America

A bat specimen collected in France at the end of World War I, since housed in the collections of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural […]

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New book: “The Subsistence Economies of Indigenous North American Societies: A Handbook”

The new book Subsistence Economies of Indigenous North American Societies provides a comprehensive and in-depth documentation of how Native American societies met the challenges of […]

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Falling trees help invasive wineberry move into deciduous forests in North America

These opportunistic plants quickly fill-in the gap taking advantage of the increased light coming through the tree canopy and the fresh soil at the fallen tree’s turned-up roots.

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SnapPay launches facial recognition payments for North American merchants

(The Paypers) SnapPay has announced the availability of facial recognition payment technology for North...




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Asian air emissions increases ozone over western North America




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How one small town became the 'Lavender Capital of North America'

In just 20 years, the city of Sequim, Washington transformed from a declining arid farmland into a fragrant prairie of purple blooms.



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Primates might have first evolved in ... North America?

A startling find in Wyoming radically changes our theories about the distant origins of our taxonomic order.