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'Devastated': scientists too late to captive breed mammal lost to climate change

2016-06-29 10:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The Bramble Cay melomys has become more famous in extinction than it ever was in life. A mouse-like rodent, the melomys amazingly survived on a 3.6 hectare grass-covered cay (a low-lying island in a coral reef) in Australias Great Barrier Reef like a ratty Robinson Crusoe for thousands of years. There, it thrived off just a few plant species until human-caused climate change--in the form of rising sea levels and increasing inundations of sea water on the low-lying island--wiped it off the planet....

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Indias captive leopards: a life sentence behind bars

2016-06-22 11:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: When an escaped leopard tackled a man at a poolside on a school campus in the southern Indian city of Bangalore early this year, the video went viral. The victim was one of the wildlife managers trying to recapture the animal. His colleagues finally managed to tranquilize it late that night and return it to a nearby zoo that was serving as a rescue center for a population of 16 wild-caught leopards. A week later, the leopard squeezed between the bars of another cage and escaped again, this time for...

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Captive Panel Screws install permanently on PCBs.

2015-10-16 14:31:09| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

Featuring surface mount spring-loaded design, PEM® ReelFast® Type SMTPFLSM™ Screws install precisely and permanently where designed on printed circuit boards to provide secure attachment and allow for subsequent access whenever necessary. All-metal captive screw assemblies mount in one piece using pick-and-place method. Available in thread sizes #4-40 through #6-32 and M3 through M3.5 and in multiple screw lengths, fasteners install in boards of any hardness as thin as .063 in.

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Industry At A Glance: Captive supply and packer profits

2015-05-27 14:07:00| Beef

While packer control of the fed cattle supply has long been a contentious issue, how has the trend affected packers gross profit? The answer might surprise you. read more

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