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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

India may think of painting roof tops

In search of a desperate answer to global warming, India may think of painting building roofs in a city with white and injecting aerosol in the upper atmosphere for cooling the planet. ...
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Monday,27 July, 2009 | Hits: 75

Centre to be set up to study impact of climate change

Technology University will soon set up a Centre in collaboration with UNESCO in the city to study the impact of climate change on depletion of water resources. ...
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Wednesday,12 August, 2009 | Hits: 128

Focus to be on forest cover at climate meet

India is focusing on the issue of recognition of tree and forest cover as carbon sinks during the global climate change negotiations. ...
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Tuesday,11 August, 2009 | Hits: 57

India says developing nations not split

Countries are hoping a broader climate pact will be signed at the end of the year in Copenhagen to replace the United Nations’ Kyoto Protocol. But negotiations have become deeply polarized. Developing nations say rich states are responsible for most of the greenhouse gas pollution emitted since the Industrial Revolution and that poverty alleviation and economic growth are priorities. ...
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Tuesday,11 August, 2009 | Hits: 78

Is the real action taking place outside UN forum?

Experts worry that negotiations are setting the agenda even before UNFCCC climate meet in Copenhagen in Dec: Is India’s willingness to take up discussions outside the United Nations (UN) forum a sign that it is changing its negotiating stance on climate change? Several analysts and a government official claim it is. ...
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Tuesday,11 August, 2009 | Hits: 116

NDTV, Toyota launch Greenathon II

NDTV and Toyota on Tuesday announced the second wave of their green campaign, for which Bollywood actor Priyanka Chopra will be the brand ambassador. The campaign includes a 24-hour, non-stop television programme, “Greenathon,” aimed at raising money for the environment and encouraging citizens to adopt small yet compelling causes. ...
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Tuesday,11 August, 2009 | Hits: 79

Jharkhand Mundas may be ancestors of Oz aborigines

Scientists have found a critical genetic link indicating that tribal Indians might be the ancestors of Australia’s earliest settlers. ...
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Monday,10 August, 2009 | Hits: 56

Carbon credit prices looking up again

Optimism seems to have returned market, with spot prices of certified emission reductions (CERs) or carbon credits testing the euro 13-levels. The December 2009 contracts for CERs on the European Climate Exchange are trading at around euro 12-12.5 over last month. The gap between forward contracts and spot prices has shrunk, which means spot prices are also ruling around the same level. ...
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Monday,10 August, 2009 | Hits: 89

Has global warming really left the Siachen glacier unaffected?

Running against a stream of mounting evidence that Himalayan glaciers, like others elsewhere in the world, are melting due to global warming, a report in the 10 August issue of Current Science journal has said that the Siachen glacier has not been affected by the rise in global temperatures. ...
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Monday,10 August, 2009 | Hits: 130

Global warming hits small growers of rubber

As the rains continue to be highly irregular and intermittent over the foothills of Kothamangalam in Kerala, Peethambaran, a small grower, remains worried working on his two-acre patch in this rich rubber-growing belt of the State. Though the paucity of rains had reduced output, the prices rose sharply over Rs100 a kg and the small holding could still meet some of the family’s basic needs. But it was lack of soil humidity that is worrying this small farmer as he thought of the long scorching summer months lying ahead. ...
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Monday,10 August, 2009 | Hits: 91

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