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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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UN emission data inflated

India’s per capita green house gas (GHG) emissions will rise to 4 tonnes from the present level of 1.2 tonnes by 2030 but would still be half of the average per capita emission of 30 of the world’s rich countries in 2005 (see graphic). ...
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Wednesday,02 September, 2009 | Hits: 56

More scientists join Pokhran-II debate

One says Kalam did not know a thing, another doubts nuclear test success claim: Kalam didn’t know a thing. I don’t like lay politicians for interfere they should stay out…HOMI SETHNA.Homi Sethna, a former top atomic scientist, entered the 1998 Pokhran nuclear test debate on Monday. ...
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Tuesday,01 September, 2009 | Hits: 66

UK,KU to collaborate on climate change studies in himalayas

United Kingdom (UK) Meteorological Office and Kashmir University are joining hands to study climate change impact on the water resources availability in the glacierized basins of J&K State and how the dwindling water resources shall impact the ecosystems services and goods, particularly hydropower and wetlands. ...
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Monday,31 August, 2009 | Hits: 102

Eco-friendly &hi-tech parking

This multi level parking will be controlled by computers, without any human interface. All one will have to do is drive into the garage. Pull the hand brakes up, lock the car and move out. The rest will be handled by a centralized computer: Believe it or not, Delhi’s getting a parking lot which will be green. It will have rainwater harvesting facilities, a sewage treatment plant, solid waste management and energy efficient gadgets and devices to make it a building of the future. The capital’s first ‘‘green’’ car park, which will also run on a state-of-the-art robotic technology to move cars, will soon come up on Kasturba Gandhi Marg. ...
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Monday,31 August, 2009 | Hits: 59

Smart roads

Several cities are planning to adopt smart technologies to manage unruly traffic Rahul was travelling from Bandra to Worli in Mumbai but worried about traffic jams on the road. It is, after all, one of the most crowded routes in the city. But there was no way he could surmise what lay ahead. ...
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Monday,31 August, 2009 | Hits: 59

Green bond and rivalry with Pak

Climate unity takes shape When India battles the developed world at the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December, it will have a new ally by its side: Pakistan. ...
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Monday,31 August, 2009 | Hits: 59

Three-pronged strategy to combat climate change

Haryana government is adopting a three pronged long-term strategy to combat climate change by bringing more areas under the forest/green cover, containing emissions from industries and constantly monitoring the air river waters. ...
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Thursday,30 July, 2009 | Hits: 65

India won’t take binding target for carbon reduction, says PM

Position of India and China’ are almost identical on climate change’ as it is the western countries need to cut down on their reductions rather the developing countries, said Prim Minister Manmohan Singh. After the apposition parties mounted pressures on the government on agreeing to targeted reduction in carbon emission during the recent G-8 meet and also during recent visit of US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Prim Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday reiterated that India would not take any binding emission reduction targets which would undermine ‘our economic growth.’ ...
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Wednesday,29 July, 2009 | Hits: 89

India has not abandoned stand on climate change: Manmohan

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh acknowledged that India had made a deviation in India’s climate change position by accepting, for the first time, a global temperature threshold of 2 degrees Centigrade. Refuting the charge that India had completely abandoned its stance, Mr. Singh said that it “is entirely in line with our stated position on global warming”. ...
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Wednesday,29 July, 2009 | Hits: 74

Panel to discuss if Rs82k cr solar tech subsidy affordable

The mission document has suggested that India pay a subsidy of Rs82, 000 crore to produce an ambitious 200,000 MW of solar power by 2050. NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister’s council on climate change will on August 3 deliberate whether India can afford to pay Rs82,000 crore subsidy over the next 30 years to bring in the costly solar technology. ...
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Tuesday,28 July, 2009 | Hits: 73

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