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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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With several parts of the country already reeling under drought, there is more bad news. Scientists in United States have found that groundwater levels in north Indian cities, including Delhi, are declining as much as one foot per year over the past decade.
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Sunday,30 August, 2009 | Hits: 63
The Ministry of Environment and Forests, often criticised for its decisions to allow controversial projects in ecologically sensitive regions, may soon see a quiet makeover. Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh and his hand-picked personal staff comprising young professionals from prestigious Delhi institutions are known to be driving a transparency mission in the ministry.
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Sunday,30 August, 2009 | Hits: 63
With the clock ticking and less than a hundred days to go until ministers from around the world meet at the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, now is the time for the U.K. and India to work together to get a climate deal that is fair to the region’s economy and its people.
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Mr Mangala Rai, the Director General of Indian Council of Agriculture Research, has called for immediate steps to adapt ways to mitigate the impact of climate change on agriculture, as it is a cause of concern.
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OBSERVER PROBE SHOWS HIGH LEVELS OF URANIUM FROM COAL FIRED POWER STATION:
Children in Punjab are being born with birth defects due to pollution from coal-fired power stations, according to an investigation by a British newspaper.Health workers in the cities of Bathinda and Faridkot in Punjab registered a sharp increase in the number of birth defects, physical and mental abnormalities, and cancers and these were linked to massive levels of uranium in their bodies.
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STRIKING EQUILIBRIUM WITH ONE’S ENVIRONMENT IS AN ESSENTIAL CRITERION FOR THE EVOLUTION OF MAN IN A SPIRITUAL CONTEXT, AS WAS PROVED BY THE VEDAS.We went wrong because we started treating the earth as a supermarket where we could shop till we drop.
Life in the Vedic times could best be described as a harmonious collaboration between spiritually evolved human beings and nature. There used to be a certain sense of beauty and logic in the way our ancestors conducted their lives.
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Saturday,29 August, 2009 | Hits: 53
Ahead of United Nations climate change negotiations coming up in Copenhagen in December, India’s stand that developing countries should not be forced to take binding emission cuts has found an unlikely ally: Pakistan. Its chief climate change negotiator Farukkh Iqbal Khan met Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh in New Delhi on Saturday and offered full support to India’s position. Khan is director in the Pakistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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To meet the challenge of climate change, India and China have agreed to jointly conduct research on the impact of climate change on the glaciers in the Himalayan and Tibetan regions, The minister of State for environment and forests, Mr Jairam Ramesh, said here today.
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Capital’s pile of hazard
According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the country was standing on a pile of 1, 46,180 tonnes of e-waste as ‘inventory’ in 2005. And it would grow to 8 lakh tones by 2012.
‘Inventory’ mean owners of old computers who do not know what to do with them.
Delhi, producing 15,000 tonnes per year (as per estimates of non-governmental agents;the government is reluctant to put a figure to it). It a major player.
Unorganized recyclers in Maharashtra, the largest producer of e-waste, send their more hazardous processes to Delhi yards, two independent studies have
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Friday,28 August, 2009 | Hits: 92
The threat:Delhi produces 15,000 tonnes of e-waste per year.
What is e-waste?
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