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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

Cybertecture can fight climate change

As city-based architect Sona Chatwani announced the arrival of cybertect James Law from Hong Kong for a presentation on his new philosophy on architecture organized by IIID Hyderabad Chapter, an air of expectation filled the JNA and FAU Auditorium at Masab Tank on Wednesday afternoon. ...
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Friday,25 September, 2009 | Hits: 97

Why New Delhi refused to change the climate a G-20

India was open in saying it had worked to ensure the Group of 20 Pittsburgh summit addressed climate change in only the blandest language. ...
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Friday,25 September, 2009 | Hits: 86

G-20 not a forum to negotiate climate change issues: India

India today declared that the G-20 was not a forum for negotiating climate change issues, although it was aware that its leaders assembled here for the Summit were expected to convey a significant commitment to move away from the current pattern of economic activity through promotion of renewable and clean sources of energy. ...
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Friday,25 September, 2009 | Hits: 156

warming to hope

The world is all heated up about global warming, but did you know that there has been no warming of the globe over the past decade? And that, according to one recent forecast, there will be no warming over the next decade either? ...
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Friday,25 September, 2009 | Hits: 98

India altering its tactics on climate debate

China is a far bigger polluter than India. India has only one-fifth of China’s emissions. When the United Nations convened its summit meeting on climate change in September, China and the United States, hewed to mostly familiar scripts, making promises without making too many specific commitments. Less familiar was the script followed by the third-most important country at the table, India.India’s public stance on climate change is usually predictable. But at the United Nations, India’s delegation toned down its usual criticisms of the industrialized world, presented new plans to reduce India’s emissions and sought to reposition the country, in the words of the environment minister, as a ‘deal maker’, not a deal breaker’. ...
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Wednesday,07 October, 2009 | Hits: 94

India wants Japan’s help to meet green challenge

India is increasingly turning towards Japan to address its climate challenge. Environment minister Jairam Ramesh praised Japan and China on Wednesday for providing global leadership in tackling climate change. ...
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Wednesday,23 September, 2009 | Hits: 90

Climate biggest issue with India & China, says Obama

WALK THE TALK Obama pressed rapidly growing developing nations to ‘do their part as well” His comments came after Ban-ki-moon said talks on climate change were moving too slowly The US offered no new proposals to push the stalled talks on a UN climate pact ...
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Wednesday,23 September, 2009 | Hits: 89

Climate of distrust

Consensus on climate change is being disrupted by a chronic mutual distrust among the negotiating countries. The Copenhagen conference on climate change is now less than two months away. Despite this, the pre-conference negotiations have still not got to first base. There was a brief break in the clouds at the G-8 summit at Aquila in July. The G-8 agreed to bind itself to making an 80 per cent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. ...
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Wednesday,07 October, 2009 | Hits: 121

Soot clouds threaten Himalayan glaciers: Study

Finding to be released in Srinagar conclave on Oct 12: In a new research, scientists in India and China have determined that glaciers in the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau that feed the river systems of almost half the world’s people are melting faster because of the effects of clouds of soot from diesel fumes and wood fires. According to a report in the Guardian, the results of the research, to be announced this month in Kashmir, show for the first time that clouds of soot - made up of tiny particles of “black carbon” emitted from old diesel engines and from cooking with wood, crop waste or cow dung - are “unequivocally having an impact on glacial melting” in the Himalayas. Scientists said that while the threat of carbon dioxide (CO2) to global warming has been accepted, soot from developing countries is a largely unappreciated cause of rising temperatures. ...
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Tuesday,06 October, 2009 | Hits: 118

India to be deal-maker in climate pact: Ramesh

Blamed for the deadlock in climate change talks along with China, India said it will be a ‘deal-maker’ and not a ‘deal-breaker’ and would like to be part of a solution to hammer a new global climate pact. ...
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Tuesday,22 September, 2009 | Hits: 83

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