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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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United Kingdom (UK) Meteorological Office and Kashmir University are joining hands to study climate change impact on the water resources availability in the glacierized basins of J&K State and how the dwindling water resources shall impact the ecosystems services and goods, particularly hydropower and wetlands.
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This multi level parking will be controlled by computers, without any human interface. All one will have to do is drive into the garage. Pull the hand brakes up, lock the car and move out. The rest will be handled by a centralized computer:
Believe it or not, Delhi’s getting a parking lot which will be green. It will have rainwater harvesting facilities, a sewage treatment plant, solid waste management and energy efficient gadgets and devices to make it a building of the future. The capital’s first ‘‘green’’ car park, which will also run on a state-of-the-art robotic technology to move cars, will soon come up on Kasturba Gandhi Marg.
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Few events can rival the ancient rituals and riotous color of India’s religious festivals. This year, the months-long celebration season is also becoming eco-friendly.
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Adopt a bridge to prevent the river from being turned into a dumping ground’
From this Tuesday (September 1), Delhiites will find it hard to dump waste and objects of religious significance into the Yamuna.
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Only a squawk from a sandhill crane broke the Arctic silence — and a low gurgle of bubbles, a watery whisper of trouble repeated in countless spots around the polar world.
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The widely touted ‘consensus’ of 2,500 scientists on IPCC is an illusion: most have no scientific qualifications and those who do, have objected to same part of the report:
About the writer:S Fred Singer in professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and president of the science and environmental policy project. He completed his undergraduate studies is engineering at Ohio State University and earned his PhD is physics from Princeton University. He was the founding dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences at the University of Miami, the founding director of the US National Weather Satellite Service. And served for five years and vice chairman of the US National Advisory Committee on Oceans and atmosphere. Dr Singer has written on edited over a dozen books and monographs, including Unstopable Global Warming: Every 1,500 years (2007), Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate Reconsidered (2009).
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The pollution levels in the Ganga and Yamuna rivers have remained unacceptably high:
For several centuries the Ganga and Yamuna rivers have remained a lifeline for crores of people apart from supporting abundant aquatic life as well as other animals and birds.
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Several cities are planning to adopt smart technologies to manage unruly traffic
Rahul was travelling from Bandra to Worli in Mumbai but worried about traffic jams on the road. It is, after all, one of the most crowded routes in the city. But there was no way he could surmise what lay ahead.
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Spurred by a desire to beat Pakistan, Bihar has planted one crore saplings on a single day, engaging three lakh people under the rural job scheme.
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Climate unity takes shape
When India battles the developed world at the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December, it will have a new ally by its side: Pakistan.
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