【推荐1】The China Daily newspaper group is looking for English-language senior business editors,senior copy editors,copy editors and graphic（图表）designers to strengthen its international team.We offer a competitive salary package,free accommodation（膳宿）with utilities（公用事业）paid for 90 percent medical return,a seven-day paid leave,eleven-day public holidays and a return ticket to the country of residence.

Senior Business Editor

You must:

★assist the business editor in setting goals and working on achieving them;

★be an excellent team person who can generate ideas and think creatively and be able to rewrite totally if needed and to guide junior staff;

★ideally have been working or have worked in a position of responsibility and understand what leadership needs;

★have had at least five years’ editing experience working on editing the Business Desk and be familiar with industry software.

Senior Copy Editor

You must:

★work on shifts in the Business Desk and usually have the last word before the page is sent to print;

★edit or rewrite copy and give up-to-date headlines and captions（字幕）;

★have had at least two years’ editing experience working on editing desks and be familiar with industry software.

Copy Editor

You must:

★be good at editing or rewriting copy and writing snappy headlines and captions;

★be able to work on shifts for different pages,and usually have the last word before the page is sent to print;

★have two years of editing experience working on copy desks and be familiar with industry software.

Graphic Designer

You must:

★have excellent skills in information graphics;

★be good at illustrations and freehand drawings;

★have a good sense of typography;

★have good news judgment;

★be familiar with Macintosh software,including InDesign,Illustrator and Photoshop;

★be fluent in English.

For enquiries or to apply,write to job@cheinadaily.com.cn.

【推荐1】Next time your plane lands, listen to the sound of the tyres hitting the ground. The reason the tyres don’t explode is because they are made of natural rubber. The tyres of cars, motorbikes and trucks are also often made of the same stuff.

Natural rubber comes from trees, Workers cut the trunks of the trees and collect a white liquid called latex. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, huge numbers of rubber trees were planted in countries including Malaysia, Burma and Brazil. More than a century ago, scientists discovered how to make man-made rubber, but natural rubber is much stronger and can last much longer. Nearly half the rubber which is produced each year is natural rubber and there is always a need for more.

Rubber trees are not easy to grow. They are affected by changes in temperature, to much or not enough rain, high winds and disease. Some trees survive while others die and it’s all down to their genes. Two British organizations, the Tun Abdul Razak Research Center (TARRC) and The Genome Analysis Center (TGAC), have been working together to look at rubber trees. This is the genes fit together in very long chains of DNA. The genome for a plant such as a rubber tree or animal needs to grow. The genome contains all the information the plant or animal needs to grow. The genome for a plant such as a rubber tree is smaller than a human genome but it is still very long, which is why it has been so difficult to find. As Ewan Mollison of TARRC says, the work has been like putting a picture puzzle together where all the pieces show blue sea and blue sky.

Now scientists can use the rubber tree genome to produce stronger trees. By understanding the genome, they can change the DNA in rubber trees in useful ways. They can also do it much faster than before. In the future, it will be possible to grow trees which survive climate change and disease.

【推荐2】When salmon （大马哈鱼）and steelhead don't get the cold water they need, it costs them more energy to survive. Their reproductive success can be reduced and they become more vulnerable to disease. "And in the worst case, when water temperatures get too high, it can lead to death, says Joseph Bogaard, executive director of the Seattle-based nonprofit Save Our wild Salmon Coalition.

That's what happened in the hot summer of 2015, when temperatures all over the Northwest rose quickly and about 250,000 adult sockeye salmon died in the Columbia River Basin. Many scientists refer to that year as a dress rehearsal for climate change. The clear trend is rising water temperatures and falling returns of endangered salmon. Bogaard says the water temperatures routinely rise above 68 degrees.

Bogaard says that 2015 dress rehearsal scientists refer to will only get worse." Those kinds of conditions are unusual, but they're becoming more common and they're going to become more frequent as we move forward. “He says the Environmental Protection Agency has a model showing dam removal and restoration of the rivers would bring the temperatures down on all but a few days a year. But after 20 years of planning, no federal agencies have taken that advice. Conservation groups appealed and last October, a judge ordered the EPA to take action, mentioning the hot water as violation of the Clean Water Act.

Advocates say dam removal is the only real option to keep endangered fish from going extinct. Many communities near the dams disagree and are concerned about economic impacts if they're taken down.

Save Our Wild Salmon is pressing the governors and members of congress from Washington, Oregon and Idaho to find ways to take action.

【推荐3】It’s been discovered that the world’s rarest seal(稀有海豹) uses hidden caves on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus to breed(繁殖) out of sight from humans. Scientists say the caves should now be protected to help the rare Mediterranean monk seals.

Researchers from the University of Exeter and the society for the Protection of Turtles (SPOT), set up cameras in eight caves in northern Cyprus to monitor the monk seal population.

The cameras are started by movement, so they start recording when something passes by. Between 2016 and 2019, the researchers found that three of the caves were used for breeding. One monk seal raised babies three years in a row in the same cave.

There are only around 700 Mediterranean monk seals left in the wild and the species is listed as endangered. In the past, they used beaches along the north coast of Cyprus to breed but human activities such as tourism have gradually forced them to move elsewhere. In 2007, a survey identified 39 possible breeding caves. It was only in 2013, however, that a young seal was spotted in the area around the caves. This confirmation that seals were breeding in the area inspired the team to set up their special cameras in 2016. Knowing about these breeding caves will help experts to track the seal population more accurately.

The researchers now want to give the seals in the area better protection. They’re hoping to make arrangements with local fishermen who set their fishing nets near the caves, which not only takes food from the seals but also risks catching the animals by mistake. The scientists would also like to protect the caves themselves from any nearby building developments. “The main breeding site we identify in this study currently has no protected status, and we are working with local authorities to try to change this,” said Dr. Robin Snape of the University of Exeter.

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