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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....

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Pachauri admits Himalayan blunder

Describing the IPCC’s Himalayan blunder as “regrettable”, its chairman RK Pachauri said on Saturday that he had “no intention of resigning”. The Nobel Prize winning climate panel’s chairman has been under pressure from climate sceptics, largely industry lobbies, to resign following Climategate and Glaciergate, as well as conflict of interest allegations. ...
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Saturday,23 January, 2010 | Hits: 127

BASIC meet next week on Copenhagen Accord

India and its partners Brazil, South Africa and China (BASIC) will meet next week in Delhi to decide on their ‘common positions’ over the Copenhagen Accord, which needs an acceptance and endorsement by 194 countries to become a legally binding treaty. The meeting comes against the backdrop of a section of environmentalists and political parties strongly opposing any move by India to sign and endorse it. ...
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Sunday,10 January, 2010 | Hits: 74

Plan panel group to prepare road map on low carbon emission

With India committing to reduce the carbon emission intensity of the economy by 20 to 25% by 2020, the government has now turned its attention to drawing up a detailed road map for its implementation. The Planning Commission has set up a 26-member expert group headed by Kirit Parekh for this purpose. The group has till April to present an interim report and will present its final report in September. ...
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Friday,08 January, 2010 | Hits: 86

$350 MN Plan To Provide Clean Energy To Developing Nations

The United States today unveiled a $350-million multinational effort to help provide clean energy technology to developing countries, including India, to curb greenhouse gas emissions and reduce global warming. The Climate Renewable and Efficiency Deployment Initiative (Climate REDI) was unveiled at an event on the sidelines of the 12-day climate summit, attended by US Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh. ...
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Thursday,14 January, 2010 | Hits: 244

Innovation centres to develop clean technologies: India

The approval of India’s technology transfer proposal to establish a global network of climate innovation centres for developing and deploying clean technologies at the ongoing climate change talks in Copenhagen should cheer businesses. ...
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Sunday,13 December, 2009 | Hits: 112

Rising sea levels eat into our coasts

FRESH evidence of rise in the level of the Indian Ocean, in line with global trends, indicates that climate change is a clear and present danger. Information shared at the 97th Indian Science Congress here on Tuesday also showed erosion of shores in Lakshadweep and change in mangrove species at the Sunderbans delta in West Bengal. ...
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Tuesday,05 January, 2010 | Hits: 175

India against amending Kyoto Protocol

India suspects Europe’s support for a new protocol is an attempt to weaken the Kyoto Protocol, which sets binding targets for 37 developed countries for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to an average of 5 pc against 1990 levels over the five-year period 2008-2012 India today made it clear that it was opposed to any amendment to the Kyoto Protocol as the 12-day climate talks headed into the second week where environment ministers would seek to give a political push to the negotiations, which were in disarray. ...
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Sunday,13 December, 2009 | Hits: 109

Japan hints at relaxing nuclear technology export restrictions

Japan is all set to be the new Indian ally on the block on civil nuclear energy business with its prime minister Yukio Hatoyama expressing his willingness to collaborate with India’s civil nuclear energy programme. This hint by Hatoyama is a shot in the arm for India’s campaign for energy security and power diversification to meet the every growing demand of both industry and farm sectors. Both sides stopped short of signing a formal explicit civil nuclear collaboration agreements as details of engagement on this front were still being worked out by both Tokyo and New Delhi. ...
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Tuesday,29 December, 2009 | Hits: 105

Meeting its carbon intensity targets will cost India: World Bank

{xtypo_rounded_right1}The Country will have to reduce dependence on coal, gas-based power generation{/xtypo_rounded_right1}India will have to increase its capital expenditure by 14% if it has to reduce its carbon intensity by 30% by 2020, according to the World Bank.The country will also have to replace 130GW of coal-based power generation with clean technologies by 2025, the bank said on Wednesday at a briefing on its low carbon development study for India. ...
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Wednesday,06 January, 2010 | Hits: 107

Sunderbans on tsunami vigil

The next time there is an earthquake in the Indian Ocean and a tsunami builds up, a high-pitched siren will be sounded across the Sunderbans. The Hooghly delta, threatened by climate change, has become a part of the country’s tsunami prediction network. ...
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Saturday,09 January, 2010 | Hits: 105

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