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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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Exactly how fast are Himalayan glaciers melting?

An award-winning United Nations panel is re-examining its research about how fast Himalaya’s glaciers are melting. Research by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggesting Himalayan glaciers may disappear by 2035 needs to be investigated anew following a report in the London-based Times newspaper that flawed data may have been used, said Rajendra K Pachauri, head of the Nobel prize-winning group. ...
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Tuesday,19 January, 2010 | Hits: 215

U.N. climate panel chief defends findings

Evidence is now overwhelming: Pachauri The head of the United Nation’s (UN) panel of climate scientists on Monday defended findings that humans are warming the planet, after critics said that leaked emails from a British university had undermined evidence. ...
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Monday,07 December, 2009 | Hits: 142

Bangalore to help keep vigil on climate

At the 97th Indian Science Congress in Thriruvananthapuram, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that though the Copenhagen summit could make only “very limited” progress, India should not lag behind in developing technologies to mitigate and adapt to climate change. ...
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Wednesday,06 January, 2010 | Hits: 138

IPCC expresses regret over glacier melting conclusion

Well-established standards of evidence not applied properly, it says The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has expressed “regret” over “poor application of well-established procedures” in substantiating an estimated rate of recession and date for the disappearance of the Himalayan glaciers. ...
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Wednesday,20 January, 2010 | Hits: 197

UN to probe violations in India’s shipbreaking, e-waste businesses

India’s alleged eco-unfriendly and labour-unfriendly policies, particularly in shipbreaking activities in Gujarat and on e-waste disposal, are going to be probed from next week, when the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur Okechukwu Ibeanu undertakes a fact-finding mission. ...
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Friday,08 January, 2010 | Hits: 91

Mittal’s remark on India’s investment climate stirs government

A day after billionaire L N Mittal’s stinging remark that India was not prepared for mega investments, senior Cabinet minister Kamal Nath today said the criticism was valid, but only in relation to the mining sector.Taken aback by the attack, the Orissa government promised early clearances of mega steel projects, including Mittal’s. The developments assume importance in the backdrop of Mittal voicing his frustration at his Rs 100,000 crore projects in Orissa and Jharkhand not taking off. ...
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Friday,08 January, 2010 | Hits: 86

Change climate change!

A chilly northern India gives the cold shoulder to global warming Ever since the Copenhagen climate summit, I’ve been very worried about climate change. I check my car’s Pollution Under Control certificate every day, walk to the grocer’s, and generally make little sacrifices to make the world a better place.I was starting to think all my efforts - and those of countless unsung others - are beginning to pay off. I’ve been feeling rather cold for the past month. In fact, very cold. My legs are often frozen all the way up to my unmentionables. I have to drink a stiff vodka before I can work up the courage to enter the bathroom in the morning. In other words, the part of the globe I live in - Delhi - has not exactly been hot. ...
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Tuesday,19 January, 2010 | Hits: 199

Manmohan responds to letter on Copenhagen Accord from Danish Premier and UN Chief

As India gets ready to host the important meeting of the BASIC countries — India, China, South Africa and Brazil — on Sunday to decide on a collective strategy for the way forward in 2010 following the Copenhagen Accord of December 18, 2009 at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15), Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is understood to have sent a strong reply to the letter the Indian government received on the definitive follow-up action to the Accord from Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The Prime Minister has apparently questioned the legal status of the various provisions included in the Accord. ...
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Saturday,23 January, 2010 | Hits: 176

West Bengal grapples with polluting sponge iron units

The Left-wing extremists of West Bengal have given themselves a new cause to fight for - pollution control. On 18 December, the outlawed Communist Party of India (Maoist) set alight a sponge iron factory at Jhargram in West Midnapore district. The next day, its top leader Koteshwar Rao told state environment secretary M.L. Meena on the phone that they gutted the factory because it was polluting the environment. ...
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Wednesday,13 January, 2010 | Hits: 261

‘IPCC should’ve checked glacier meltdown claim’

A top Indian Institute of Science climate expert J Srinivasan, who has also worked with the UN’s Inter-Governmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC), has said that the system of checks and balances usually applied for scientific assertions ‘‘did not work’’ in the case of IPCC’s assertion that Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035. ...
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Thursday,21 January, 2010 | Hits: 177

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