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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

IPCC: In need of a course correction?

Climate change: It’s been just over two decades since the IPCC was founded. What are the challenges for the panel on climate change? Are the panel’s warnings on emissions being acted upon by nations? Andrew C Revkin.Two years ago, an international scientific panel seized worldwide attention by reporting that human activity was warming the planet in ways that could greatly disrupt human affairs and nature. ...
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Monday,10 August, 2009 | Hits: 73

India under rain shadow

India is staring at a deficit of almost 28% in its monsoon rainfall between 1 June and 8 August, the first such shortfall in seven years. ...
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Monday,10 August, 2009 | Hits: 73

North East’s environment

It comes as no surprise that the oil township of Digboi has found a place in the list of 24 “critically polluted” areas of the country prepared by the Central Pollution Control Board. ...
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Friday,07 August, 2009 | Hits: 95

Shrinking glaciers steps up global warming in US

Three glaciers in different climate zones of the US Northwest have shrunk rapidly since 1989. ...
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Friday,07 August, 2009 | Hits: 53

Monsoon clouds direction of economy’s growth

Clouds of worry hover over the Indian economy as the monsoon continues to play truant. ...
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Friday,07 August, 2009 | Hits: 71

India to adopt new WHO growth standard

From now on, 2.5 kg, and not 2.8 kg, will be considered as “normal” birth weight for newborns. Faced with lopsided figures, as India used to follow the National Child Health Standards (NCHS), the Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) recently decided to adopt the World Health Organization’s new “growth monitoring standards” and revise its “weight for age” method. ...
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Thursday,06 August, 2009 | Hits: 87

Finance ministry for carbon tax on polluting industries

The finance ministry has recommended imposing a carbon tax on companies with high carbon emission levels, despite the government opposing the same in international negotiations on climate change. ...
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Thursday,06 August, 2009 | Hits: 75

Are we isolated on climate change?

About a month ago, at a closed-door session on India and Global Climate Change, the ma-in presenter, a former environment secretary, eloquently outlined the tough stand that India should adopt in partnership with China and Brazil in the forthcoming Copenhagen Summit. That this is the standard party line was clearly demonstrated by environment minister Jairam Ramesh in his recent dialogue with Hillary Clinton. India will not consider any capping of emissions by emerging economies and, in any case, advanced economies should demonstrate their seriousness by making substantial upfront funding (hundreds of billions of dollars) commitments for any meaningful advance to be made. ...
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Wednesday,05 August, 2009 | Hits: 98

Concern over climate change

In a bid to involve the youth in discussing the issue of climate change, Delhi University students have taken an initiative to formulate a network of young adults to sensitize people about one of the biggest challenges facing the world. The Geography Department of Kamala Nehru College organized a three-day international youth conference on “Sustainable lifestyles: Consumption and climate change” earlier this week. ...
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Wednesday,05 August, 2009 | Hits: 132

Environment ministry to take up e-waste mgmt norms on Aug 6

The proposed rules seek to address the issue of e-waste management by setting up a mechanism to regulate manufacturing, collection, transportation and trade of e-waste and its eco-friendly recycling. The rules have been drafted by the manufactures’ Association of information Technology and Greenpeace, Toxic Link and GTZ in consultation with industry leaders. He proposed rules need not necessarily add up to more costs for consumers. For example, recycling also includes extraction of precious metals, which cn off set the higher costs. ...
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Monday,03 August, 2009 | Hits: 1188

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