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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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Jairam against binding deal on gas emissions

India will not enter into any binding agreement with developed countries to cut down its green house emissions, minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday. Any such legal agreement would mean jeopardising the country’s energy consumption, power and agricultural production needed for poverty elimination,he added....
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Tuesday,30 June, 2009 | Hits: 94

Godrej project selected for climate change

Godrej Properties said its upcoming township, Godrej Garden City, in Ahmedabad has been selected for the Climate Positive Development Programme, launched by former US President Bill Clinton....
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Friday,29 May, 2009 | Hits: 69

Don’t Cap Waste’

A member of Supreme Court-appointed committee for solid waste management in Class 1 cities had warned the BMC against using Capping To technology to close of the 127 hectare Deonar dumping ground....
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Friday,29 May, 2009 | Hits: 58

Cocktail of noxious gases turns up the heat, says study

If you feel dizzier in summer, there is a good reason for it. ...
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Friday,29 May, 2009 | Hits: 72

MCD to set aside funds on climate change

The Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) will now work for climate change in the Capital. ...
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Wednesday,27 May, 2009 | Hits: 62

Climate study loses credibility

McKinney’s low carbon growth study on India has run into more controversy with three of the four eminent members of the ‘academic Review panel’ cited by the firm distancing themselves from the report. ...
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Tuesday,26 May, 2009 | Hits: 52

Top scientist slams India’s glaciers studies

A leading scientists has criticized the way glaciers are studies in India.Padma Shri awardee Dr Syed I. Hasnain from the Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) said there is not even a single glacier which has been stided over a long period of time by Indian scientists....
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Sunday,24 May, 2009 | Hits: 62

Looking for green solutions

If you thought there is not much you can do as an individual to save the city’s environment, visit Yamunotsav. ...
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Thursday,04 June, 2009 | Hits: 60

US, G-77 countries differ over investment in green technology

Countries such as India need market-driven solutions, must address concerns of competition, says US.The US will only fund efforts to catalyse attempts by developing countries such as India to move to a low-carbon economy, it said at the climate change negotiations in Bonn, Germany....
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Wednesday,03 June, 2009 | Hits: 59

Lights, camera, climate, change

To commemorate World Environment Day, the British Council in association with Discovery Channel is hosting a special preview of four films on climate change at its Kasturba Gandhi Marg premises here this Friday. ...
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Wednesday,03 June, 2009 | Hits: 54

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