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Waterproof Palm pH Meter has ruggedized, handheld design.
2014-07-30 14:32:04| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Available with choice of stick or cabled pH electrode, Waterproof Palm pH Meter is designed for accelerated response measurement. Microprocessor offers automatic buffer recognition, and memory stores 25 readings. Along with simultaneous display of pH or mV and temperature on LCD, features include automatic temperature compensation, ruggedized design with handheld form factor, and wall mounting option. When electrode is connected to meter, unit is also waterproof. This story is related to the following:pH Meters
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Invasion of the oil palm: western Africa's native son returns, threatening great apes
2014-07-28 21:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: As palm oil producers increasingly look to Africas tropical forests as suitable candidates for their next plantations, primate scientists are sounding the alarm about the destruction of ape habitat that can go hand in hand with oil palm expansion. A study recently published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology sought to take those warnings a step further by quantifying the overlap in suitable oil palm land with current ape habitat. Its a huge worry, said lead author Serge Wich of oil...
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P&G Looks to Reduce Palm Oil\'s\nEnvironmental Impact
2014-07-24 17:30:00| Happi Breaking News
Teams up with MISI to protect local forests.
Surprising habitat: camera traps reveal high levels mammal diversity in oil palm plantations
2014-07-21 19:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: At first the forest seems still, with only the sounds of busy insects and slight movement of wind betraying activity in the patchy undergrowth. Then, curiously, a Malay civet (Viverra tangalunga), an animal resembling half cat and half weasel, scampers out to claim its prize: a stick smeared with margarine and honey. CLICK! Sensing the animals body heat, a camera trap strapped to a nearby tree captures an image of this creature's inquisitive behavior. After more than four and a half years of...
How Palm Oil Ravages Rainforests, Endangers Wildlife & Destroys Communities
2014-07-18 16:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Agriculture plays a massive role in todays global economy. Its easy to not realize that your salads fresh tomatoes are likely flown in from the Netherlands, its asparagus is picked by a Peruvian farmer and the dressing has palm oil harvested in Indonesia. Our complicity in an agricultural system that ships food products across the world via air, land and sea becomes a political decision, one that impacts the environment on a global scale. And palm oil, a popular ingredient in nearly 75 percent...
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