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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:....
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....
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 ....
“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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Karen Armstrong and Richard Dawkins answer the question:
Richard Dawkins has been right all along, of course—at least in one important respect. Evolution has indeed dealt a blow to the idea of a benign creator, literally conceived. It tells us that there is no Intelligence controlling the cosmos, and that life itself is the result of a blind process of natural selection, in which innumerable species failed to survive.
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Wednesday,16 September, 2009 | Hits: 82
While it’s true that pollution kills, it certainly knows on boundaries Pollution here could mean death elsewhere!Research and scientists are working in tendem in order to tackle this looming hazard:
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Wednesday,16 September, 2009 | Hits: 93
Valsa R. Nair Singh, I.A.S., Secretary (Environment), Government of Maharashtra; Chairperson, MPCB explains the initiatives undertaken to reduce negative environment impact by industries and help preserve the Ozone Layer:
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Tuesday,15 September, 2009 | Hits: 58
How the Ozone Layer depletion could impact Earth and its inhabitants:
Ozone depletion describes two distinct, but related observations: a slow, steady decline of about 4% per decade in the total volume of ozone in Earth’s stratosphere (ozone layer) since the late 1970s and a much lager, but seasonal, decrease in stratospheric ozone over Earth’s Polar Regions during the some period. According to Wikipedia, the latter phenomenon is commonly referred to as the ozone hole.
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Tuesday,15 September, 2009 | Hits: 74
A United Nations-backed report says droughts in Maharashtra are likely to worsen:
Warming may increase hurricane damage in Florida, costing the state an extra $33 billion a year by 2030, the report says
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Monday,14 September, 2009 | Hits: 48
Since it’s clear that you are never going to let us marry, Saif and I have decided to end our lives together by drowning at Surajkund, Haryana. Please don’t try to find us. Love Nisha.’
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Saturday,12 September, 2009 | Hits: 91
Climate change will have an impact on wine quality:
The wine world is in a state of delirium ever since a Green peace report sounded the “rouge alert,” saying France’s iconic wine industry may find the going hot because of greenhouse gas-induced rising temperatures.
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Saturday,12 September, 2009 | Hits: 112
Struggling to break an impasse between the positions of the developing and developed world on climate change, the European Commission today proposed allocating up to €15 billion annually to assist developing countries meet targets. With less than 90 days left Copenhagen to negotiate a successor to Kyoto, concerns have been mounting that the chasm between the positions of the developed and developing countries will prove too wide to bridge.
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Thursday,10 September, 2009 | Hits: 60
Villagers in Tuktoyaktuk worry that due to global warming the sea will soon reduce their island to a small shoal, exposing the unprotected side of Tuk’s populated peninsula to ocean waves, writes Charles J Hanley.
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Wednesday,09 September, 2009 | Hits: 97
Environmentalists have launched a drive to rid the oceans of plastic dump, reports P.Hari.
Seldom does a ship’s captain command global attention. In this instance, he is also a chemist, a scuba diver and former woodworking businessman, but these are hardly qualities that aid anyone in attaining celebrity status.
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Sunday,06 September, 2009 | Hits: 72
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