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Lizard named after Obama was wiped out by climate change

Well it was just a matter of time before some commie scientists named an extinct animal after the 44th president of the United States. Obamadon gracilis is the name, and the foot-long creature — which was discovered in a fossil bed in Montana — has been extinct for about 65 million years. And ironically, its extinction may indicate that paleolithic changes in climate affected animals differently than previously believed. Paleontologist Nicholas Longrich explains that scientists are now rethinking the idea that the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs spared smaller lizards like Obamadon:....

Ten Years of the Biological Diversity Act

India’s Biological Diversity (BD) Act was enacted in 2002. There is now a decade of its existence to reflect on.The genesis of the law can be traced to the Convention on Biological Diversity(CBD), which was signed at the Rio Summit in 1992. While assessing the 10 years of the Act, one has to be mindful of how India itself has undergone change in these years. By the time the Act came into force, trade imperatives had begun to influence environmental law and policy making both at the national and global level. The final shape of the Act and the manner of its implementation through the BD rules issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests....

Endow-Bio, Inc., the First National Endowment for Biodiversity

This is the birth announcement of Endow-Bio, Inc., the First National Endowment for Biodiversity. Please help us to publicize our brand new, all-volunteer, 501(c)(3) public charity. Endow-Bio, Inc. operates wholly within the U.S. Our current crises of nature, conservation and culture call for an audaciously hopeful response in the form of this new public charity. Our mission is to further conservation of biodiversity of native species and their habitats in the U.S., to expose the full breadth of our environmental problems, to show there are good-hearted people working to solve these problems who would ....

Protecting Livestock and Wildlife through Transfrontier Conservation Areas: An Interview with Steve Osofsky

“We are looking to make wildlife and livestock more compatible by dealing with diseases, by dealing with human/wildlife conflict, and at the same time seeking economic opportunity in both of these arenas.” Steve Osofsky, director of wildlife health policy for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), developed the Animal & Human Health for the Environment And Development (AHEAD) program at WCS and served as the first wildlife veterinary officer for the Botswana Department of Wildlife and National Parks. In an interview with Worldwatch Research Fellow Molly Theobald, Dr. Osofsky discusses how farmers can both help and benefit from wildlife c....

Headlines

Obama on defensive, US climate Bill in retreat

It’s both a global issue with local fallout and a local issue with global consequences. In a frenetic political season where matters ranging from healthcare to the economic downturn have convulsed the US, the climate change issue finds itself buffeted between Washington’s need to put on a good face for the world and the lawmakers’ need to take local needs and sentiments into consideration. ...
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Saturday,30 January, 2010 | Hits: 130

Panel faults nod to Narmada dam

GREEN SIGNAL Project violates environment norms, says report A government committee has found that the Narmada project in western India does not meet the conditions required for it to get an environment clearance, 23 years after the project was given a go-ahead. ...
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Saturday,13 February, 2010 | Hits: 295

"Time running out on climate change"

For every one degree rise in temperature, 6 million tonnes of wheat will be lost in India, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the UN estimates. How do you feed a hungry, growing world population with climate change knocking at the door? ...
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Monday,15 February, 2010 | Hits: 348

Environment ministry seeks 17% rise in outlay

The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has sought an outlay of Rs 2,200 crore, a 17% hike from Rs 1,880 crore in 2009-10, in the forthcoming budget. The increased outlay, the ministry says, will be used for river and lake cleaning and pollution control. ...
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Friday,12 February, 2010 | Hits: 283

Beyond Global Warming

India’s environment problem goes beyond climate change. Climate change science is about as exact a science as economics. There are so many variables and imponderables involved in both disciplines that it is impossible to predict, with any degree of precision, what will result and when. For instance, despite all the dire warnings about global warming, the last 10 years have been cooler than the year that went before - mostly because 1998 was a particularly hot year. ...
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Thursday,21 January, 2010 | Hits: 147

CII urges Himachal to make industry more eco-friendly

Taking forward the initiative of making Himachal Pradesh the first carbon-neutral state of the country, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) submitted a proposal to the state government with a specific focus on making the existing industry more environment friendly and disclosure on CO2 emissions. ...
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Thursday,21 January, 2010 | Hits: 159

Blame air pollution for Capital’s blanket of fog

The fog blanket that covers North India every winter is a result of changes in atmospheric chemistry brought about by pollution from various sources and moisture from the network of canal irrigation in the region, studies have shown. ...
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Thursday,07 January, 2010 | Hits: 140

Environmental index: State in ‘medium sustainable’ class

Does well in spite of relatively high intensity of economic activity An Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) that maps the ability of States to remain ecologically sustainable while pursuing development has ranked Tamil Nadu in “medium sustainable” category. ...
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Wednesday,13 January, 2010 | Hits: 149

Plastic paves way for eco-friendly roads

K K Plastic Waste Management, run by brothers Ahmed and Rasool Khan, collects thousand of tones of waste plastic from garbage bins across India’s IT hub through a network of municipal workers, rag pickers and their own employees. A company run by two brothers in Bangalore has helped lay 14,000 km of roads using plastic waste An Indian company has found a novel use for the heaps of ecologically unsound plastic that litter Bangalore: It’s turning it into roads. The plastic is then shredded and mixed with asphalt to form a compound called polymerized bitumen. When used in paving, the brothers say, it withstands monsoons and daily wear and tear better than traditional methods and also reduces potholes. ...
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Thursday,14 January, 2010 | Hits: 131

IPCC ’07 report kept government in dark

“2035 Report didn’t mention glacier melt date” The Indian government had in 2007 approved the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the Himalayan glaciers that failed to mention that most glaciers would vanish by 2035. “The policy document circulated by IPCC only said that Himalayan glaciers were melting at a fast rate,” said Pradipto Ghosh, who was then secretary in the Ministry of Environment and Forests. “There was no mention of the 2035 figure”. ...
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Tuesday,19 January, 2010 | Hits: 129

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