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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....

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Make-or-break on climate change

As governments the world over meet in Copenhagen in December, they have to look beyond Kyoto and ensure that this time the climate change agreement is not just ambitious but effective. A make-or-break moment for our planet is now only six months away. In Copenhagen this December, the world will try to find a deal on climate change –and we have to succeed. Whether we do so cannot be left until the winter, and cannot be left to politicians alone. As part of our contribution and to open up debate, the UK Government is publishing our ask for what the deal should include....
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Monday,13 July, 2009 | Hits: 94

Rs 1 crore to study climate change impact

CLIMATE WATCH:Climate scientists from TERI will study aspects such as how farming patterns should be changed to adjust to the soaring temperature and how and what epidemics may hit the state.Another area of worry is the rise in the sea level, climate scientists have predicts up to a metre rise in the sea level....
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Monday,13 July, 2009 | Hits: 69

‘Civilization may collapse due to climate change’

The biggest single report to look at the future of the planet has said that due to climate change, “billions of people will be condemned to poverty and much of civilization will collapse.” ...
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Monday,13 July, 2009 | Hits: 87

Ganga gone in 50 years?

DISTRESSING DATE: The Ganga is among 45 rivers that showed a statistically significant reduction in discharge to the ocean, a study in the US has concluded Others rivers include the Columbia, Congo, Mississppi, Niger, Parana, Uruguay, etcIn 2004, the Ganga possessed 20 per cent less water than it had 56 years earlier. And in the next 50 years it could even disappear....
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Monday,13 July, 2009 | Hits: 53

Mercury rising

By Shubhrangshu Roy Consider this: Wide-spread brown clouds created by biofuel cooking, biomass burning and fossil fuel combustion are dimming the surface over most of South Asia and heating the atmosphere in a manner that the giant Himalayan glaciers are in rapid retreat, threatening our food and water security. These clouds have also resulted in reduced rainfall and increased storms. According to Veerabhadran Ramanathan, climate and atmospheric scientist at the University of California, San Diego, rainfed rice production in India has stagnated since the 1990s inspite of increased fertiliser use and advanced cropping practices because of the climate changes brought about by brown clouds over the subcontinent. ...
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Monday,13 July, 2009 | Hits: 140

Standing alone

India needs to take the moral high ground in climate change:In his latest novel, The Winner Stand Alone, celebrity spiritualist Paulo Coelho portrays the Superclass, as a creature obsessed, among other things, with saving Planet Earth,...
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Sunday,12 July, 2009 | Hits: 47

LAWDA launches nocturnal drive to prevent illegal construction

The lakes and Waterways Development Authority (LAWDA) has formed teams to stop inflow of construction material in and around the Dal lake and discourage illegal constructions to save that water body from further encroachment....
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Sunday,12 July, 2009 | Hits: 55

Inequality and global warming

It has become a fad in Europe and the US to blame China and India for emitting increasing volumes of greenhouse gases, increasing pollution, and Contributing to global warming. Last week, at the summit of the exclusive Group of Eight rich industrialized countries in Italy, the G-8 leaders and western media accused China and India for obstructing the G-8’s initiative to reduce carbon emissions and contain the threat of global warming. On July 9, a front page story in the New York Times charged China and India for “undercutting the drive to build a global consensus by the end of this year to reverse the threat of climate change.” ...
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Sunday,12 July, 2009 | Hits: 101

Climate, so change

India’s history plus morality argument isn’t enough: The climate change stalemate between developing and developed countries is enough to make a pessimist out of anyone. Long years ago in the late 1980s, Margaret Thatcher (in a move that hasn’t got nearly the recognition it deserves) became one of the first global leaders to raise a global warming alert. ...
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Sunday,12 July, 2009 | Hits: 101

How Pune keeps clean

Villagers suffer the city’s garbage.Relatives don’t visit them, but disease does, writes rajil menonHANUMANT Bhandari is getting used to his speckled face. The 10-year-old student of a school on the outskirts of Pune was intrigued by the white spots on his face and thighs when they first appeared a year ago. The spots disappear whenever he takes medication, but reappear in no time. Over half of the 350 children in the residential school have white patches on their bodies. It is not a hereditary disease, but a mark of Pune’s garbage dumped on a hillock close to the Kailash Wasi Namdev Mahadev Harpale School....
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Saturday,11 July, 2009 | Hits: 79

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