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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....

Blogs

Flowers in the wild

They intrigued Charles Darwin so much that he called their evolution “an abominable mystery”. We are talking about flowers. Scientists are also finding a wealth of clues in living flowers and their genes, writes Carl Zimmer ...
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Monday,14 September, 2009 | Hits: 80

Back to the basics

At last, one of the most prominent and respected institution, has taken up basic sciences seriously. Basic sciences, physics, chemistry, biology and math¬ematics have now found the correct niche in the curricula of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. ...
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Monday,14 September, 2009 | Hits: 71

There was life in oceans 200million years before oxygen came

Earth was covered in a poisonous smog then: LIFE existed in the oceans for hundreds the Earth’s air was not fit to breathe, research suggested on Monday. ...
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Monday,14 September, 2009 | Hits: 107

Global warming's technology deficit

In Copenhagen this December, the focus will be on how much carbon to cut, rather than on how to do so. Politicians will base their decisions on global warming models that simple assume that technology breakthroughs will happen by themselves. Yet the needed technology will not be ready in terms of scalability of stability. ...
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Monday,14 September, 2009 | Hits: 64

Quantum jump

What we do here are mostly theoretical studies and research. In India, the concerted effort and knowledge base required for taking up such applications and experiments are not there” The fastest supercomputer on the Earth today would take around 24 hours to break the access code in your debit card. A quantum computer would be able to do it in one second. For sheer raw power and speed, and the ability to do massive parallel processing, there’s no bigger promise than quantum computing. However, a full-fledged computer may still be a few years away. ...
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Monday,14 September, 2009 | Hits: 102

Now, wood plastic hybrid to reduce carbon footprint

Scientists in the city have got the go-ahead to develop a new class of material, an unlikely hybrid of the organic and synthetic, that could change forever the way we see furniture, packaging, automobile interiors and even aircraft. ...
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Sunday,13 September, 2009 | Hits: 65

Creating public opinion in the fight against climate change

Two U.N. organizations have extended their support to a sensitization workshop on climate change being held here this coming Wednesday to strengthen public focus on the new global standards likely to be set beyond the current Kyoto Protocol at the International Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this year-end. ...
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Sunday,13 September, 2009 | Hits: 114

Pirana dumpyard to turn into Eco Park

Sweet fragrance may soon waft across as you pass by Pirana dumping site instead of the obnoxious stink. The forest department in coordination with Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) is planning to covert the dumpyard into a eco nature park. ...
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Sunday,13 September, 2009 | Hits: 69

The eco-friendly way to heaven

The number of ecoconscious people is growing steadily. This is highlighted by the fact that more people are opting for electric and CNG cremation for dear ones. According to Birth & Death Control Department of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), there has been a jump in number of families which are voluntarily opting for environment friendly funerals. ...
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Sunday,13 September, 2009 | Hits: 49

Need for sustainable solid waste management

Involvement of private sector, non-government organizations and rag-pickers favoured There is an urgent need to upgrade technology related to management of municipal solid waste available with municipalities and to bring in requisite capital, said Central Pollution Control Board chairman S. P. Gautam here over the weekend. ...
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Saturday,12 September, 2009 | Hits: 75

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