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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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In a significant shift in its stand ahead of the Copenhagen meeting, India has, for the first time, said reduction of its greenhouse gas emissions is as much a part of its climate change strategy as adaptation efforts, and that it is even ready to quantify the emission cuts it is prepared to take over a period of time.
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Wednesday,16 September, 2009 | Hits: 80
Taking a position that echoes the Indian stance, the World Bank has urged developed countries to step up their funding on clean air research and mitigation efforts in the developing world. Holding the economically advanced countries responsible for much of the greenhouse gas emissions of the past, the Bank put the onus of creating a “climate smart world” on the developed world.
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Wednesday,16 September, 2009 | Hits: 104
The fate a global climate treaty now rests in American hands:
Anyone who cares about the survival of our planet should start praying that Barack Obama gets his way on reforming US healthcare. That probably sounds hyperbolic, if not mildly deranged: even those who are adamant that 45 million uninsured Americans deserve basic medical cover would not claim that the future of the earth depends on it. But think again.
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Mahesh Pathak, Member Secretary, Maharashtra pollution Control Boards, Shares with Vijay Pandya the various initiatives taken by MPCB towards spreading awareness about controlling pollution that affects the ozone layer and the challenges faced:
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Tuesday,15 September, 2009 | Hits: 121
You hear ‘climate change’ and you think it’s just a ‘developed VS developing world’ debate. KumKum DasGupta points out that it’s also an India VS India’ tussle:
‘I am a representative of the Bhil and Bhilala tribes of West Nimar from Narmada valley. We have been told that these changes in the climate are due to global warming... [But] we have not contributed towards the problem. Then why should we suffer? Today we are facing hardship because the world is running after development. Their development is not ours!’
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Developing countries can shift to lower-carbon paths while promoting development and reducing poverty, but this depends on financial and technical assistance from high-income countries, says the World Development Report 2010, brought out by the World Bank, which focuses on development and climate change. Released in advance of the December meetings on climate change in Copenhagen, the report says that advanced countries, which produced most of the greenhouse gas emissions of the past, must act to shape our climate future. If developed countries act now, a “climate-smart” world is feasible, and the costs for getting there will be high but still manageable.
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Tuesday,15 September, 2009 | Hits: 61
The Union government has finally set the ball rolling on tapping indigenously developed technology and advanced surveillance systems to improve internal security, two years after it first announced the programme and nearly nine months after the Mumbai terror attack.
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India and China may join the league of carbon trading hot spots in a few years, along with Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo, that should soon make the grade, said Henry Derwent, president, International Emissions Trading Association, the largest organization of companies involved in the buying and selling of credits.
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Tuesday,15 September, 2009 | Hits: 78
Taking all the factors (elaborated on these pages yesterday) into account, the national security advisory board recommended to the government in August 1999 that India should adopt a strategy of ‘no first use’ and a credible minimum deterrence. This was accepted with some modifications by the government in January 2003.
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Tuesday,15 September, 2009 | Hits: 86
The electric car is being upheld as an ethical, green, nifty and cheap alternative to the carbon dioxide emitting automobiles clogging city roads around the world today.
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