Conservationists described the extinction as a "shocking tragedy" yesterday, caused not by active persecution but accidentally and carelessly through a combination of factors including unsustainable fishing and mass shipping.
In the 1950s, the Yangtze river and neighbouring watercourses had a population of thousands of freshwater dolphins, also known as Baiji, but their numbers have declined dramatically since China industrialised and transformed the Yangtze into a crowded artery of mass shipping, fishing and power generation.
Compared with existing methods, the proposed method helps to identify cumulative activity patterns for ship groups derived from mass ship trajectories, and provides a clearer interpretation of shifting space-use patterns within strait corridors.
and were initially left at the entrance, but Havock was third into the harbour and fired five of her torpedoes into the mass of shipping.
For now, Gershenfeld's project is focused on bringing an early version of that replicator to the masses: He's shipped 26 Fab Labs around the world since 2002.
These innovations helped Sheffield to gain a worldwide recognition for the production of cutlery; utensils such as the bowie knife were mass-produced and shipped to the United States.
In this example, we will add ten percent to the actual mass, or simply, Shipping Weight= "The mass" x 1.10 Open the "Equations" dialog in SolidWorks.
Shortly after the Depression and the start of World War II, women entered the workforce in mass while men were shipped off to war.
In addition, triplicate samples were subjected to gamma-irradiation at the USDA-APHIS irradiation facility (140 Gy) following the standard methods used for mass reared flies being shipped to California for SIT release.
Untold masses of hides were shipped to the East in what may be the most profligate ecocide in human memory.
Supermarket meat and vegetables, mass-produced and transcontinentally shipped, were no match for what was available in countries that took their eating seriously.
