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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

India gets proactive on climate change

INDIA has lined up a series of measures to signal its commitment in dealing with climate change in the run-up to the Copenhagen conference in December. ...
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Wednesday,02 September, 2009 | Hits: 62

Beyond the carbon crusade

Everybody wants to prevent global warming. But how can we do that best Taxing fossil fuels to reduce carbon emissions is a sensible part of the solution to climate change Protecting forests is another way to cut atmospheric carbon as deforestation accounts for 17% of emissions. ...
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Wednesday,02 September, 2009 | Hits: 90

Studies allay concerns on India's future emission levels

As it fights to resist increasing pressure to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, India on Wednesday unveiled the results of some studies which show that even in the year 2030, the country’s per capita emissions would most probably be lower than 4 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, well below the global average of about 4.5 tonnes in 2005. ...
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Wednesday,02 September, 2009 | Hits: 131

Developed nations overdrawn on carbon accounts

The developed nations are already overdrawn on their carbon accounts, said a new report from the United Nations (UN) that implicitly bolstered the case put forward by developing nations such as India and China at global climate change talks. ...
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Wednesday,02 September, 2009 | Hits: 55

UN calls for 'global new deal' to address climate challenge

As an integration of climate and development agendas risks widening the divide between developed and developing countries with both blocs refusing to budge from their stance, the United Nations aptly argues that addressing the climate challenge cannot proceed on “ad hoc and incremental actions”. ...
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Wednesday,02 September, 2009 | Hits: 74

India's greenhouse gas emission to be low till 2031: Report

The country’s per capita emission of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) will continue to be low until 2030-31, and it is estimated that the per capita emission in 2031 will be lower than per capita global emission of GHG in 2005, a new study released here on Wednesday shows. ...
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Wednesday,02 September, 2009 | Hits: 58

UN emission data inflated

India’s per capita green house gas (GHG) emissions will rise to 4 tonnes from the present level of 1.2 tonnes by 2030 but would still be half of the average per capita emission of 30 of the world’s rich countries in 2005 (see graphic). ...
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Wednesday,02 September, 2009 | Hits: 59

Right actions don’t need consensus

Mohan Munasinghe, vice chairman of UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), is deemed to be co-winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize, with chairman R K Pachauri, which went to IPCC. Munasinghe, who delivered the keynote address at the two-day ‘Kathmandu to Copenhagen’ conference on climate change in Nepal believes that actions to mitigate the impact of change does not have to wait for full scientific consensus or knowledge. “If your house is under threat of fire, you do take insurance,” he told associate editor Hardev Sanotra. Excerpts. ...
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Tuesday,01 September, 2009 | Hits: 145

More scientists join Pokhran-II debate

One says Kalam did not know a thing, another doubts nuclear test success claim: Kalam didn’t know a thing. I don’t like lay politicians for interfere they should stay out…HOMI SETHNA.Homi Sethna, a former top atomic scientist, entered the 1998 Pokhran nuclear test debate on Monday. ...
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Tuesday,01 September, 2009 | Hits: 70

Where the sun shines on climate change

The Sunderbans boast the highest concentration of solar home panels in India thanks to the efforts of a former government scientific officer: The Sunderbans boast the highest concentration of solar home panels in India thanks to the efforts of a former government scientific officer.Sustainable technology may be the next big thing for India Inc, but for S P Gon Chaudhuri, it’s been a reality for more than a quarter century. ...
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Tuesday,01 September, 2009 | Hits: 71

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