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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

Climate change increasing width of tropics

Climate change is rapidly expanding the size of the world’s tropical zone, threatening to bring disease and drought to heavily populated areas, an Australian study has found. ...
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Budget boost

Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh’s desire for more allocation for the National Ganga River Basin Authority was obllged by Pranab Mukherjee on Monday....
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Carbon deposits in Arctic could worsen climate change

Vast amounts of carbon, about twice as much as contained in the atmosphere, is stored in the Arctic, according to a new study. The amount of carbon in frozen soils, sediments and river deltas raises new concern over the role of the northern regions as future sources of greenhouse gases....
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A dream environment

Did hear you say were feeling bored of doing homework and learning lesions? Well, why not take a more proactive role in the local area or community in which you live? ...
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Shimla to host two-day summit on climate change next month

Chief Ministers of four Himalayan states, Jammu $ Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh to prepare joint action plan to counter challenges posed by global warming In a significant step towards uniting Himalayan states in the fight against global warming, the Himachal Pradesh Government will hold a twoday summit of chief ministers of Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh on the issues of climate change and changing Himalayan ecology in Shimla on August 17 and 18. ...
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Experts slam State’s proposals to Centre for tackling climate change

S. NO PROPOSAL Grant request (Rs. In. lakh) Year I Year II Year III Year IV Year V Total 1 Infrastructure facilities 500 500 500 200 -- 7100 2 Research facilities 50 50 50 50 50 250 3 Awareness Programmes 350 350 350 350 350 1750 4 Pollution-mitigating plantations 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 5000 TOTAL 8700 Are exhibition centres and conference halls the most urgent needs on the State’s climate change agenda?” The question is being raised by some leading climate change experts, who are questioning the efficacy of the State government’s proposals to the Central Finance Commission for tackling climate change....
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Funds announced for climate change

As Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee hoped in his Budget speech, his announcements for exemptions for environment-friendly bio-diesel earned him smiles from environmentalists. Mukherjee announced the government’s decision to fully exempt petro-diesel blended with bio-diesel from excise duty. The Finance Minister said in order to encourage the use of this environment friendly fuel, the government proposed to reduce basic custom duty on green fuel, also known as bio-diesel fuel, from 7.5 per cent to 2.5 per cent at par with petrol-diesel. “With these proposals, I hope to see a smile on faces of the green brigade,” he said....
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Anti-pollution House committee inspects Chadha Group’s mill

“There were may complaints of the mill causing pollution and the matter was raised in the Vidhan Sabha last year. We have inspected several mills and the process will continue” The ten-member Vidhan Sabha committee on Pollution-causing Sugar Mills and Distilleries inspected AB Grain Spirits Private Limited, owned by the Chadha Group, at kidi Afghana ion Gurdaspur district last week. Residents of villages nearby have been up in the arms against the mill, complaining that the mill was dumping toxic waste into Beas riover and also causing air pollution....
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Sunday,05 July, 2009 | Hits: 71

A green way to dump Low-tech electronics

This month, Edward Reilly, 35, finally let go of the television he had owned since his college days. Although the Mitsubishi set was technologically outdated, it had sat for years in Mr. Reilly’s home in Portland, Me., because he did not know what else to do with it, given the environmental hazards involved in discarding it. ...
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A guide to get the most out of green stimulus packages

Green dimensions of stimulus funds of late ‘08/ early ’09. Total Euro bn Green funds Euro bn EU 30.0 17.6 Germany 81.0 10.7 France 26.0 5.5 UK 23.5 1.6 Italy 80.0 1.0 Spain 11.0 0.6 Other EU states 238.5 4.8 Europe(Total) 490.1 41.9 United States 751.2 86.8 Americas(Total) 778.8 88.8 China 452.9 171.0 India 10.6 - Japan 75.5 9.6 South Korea 29.4 23.7 Asia-Pacific(Total) 891.7 206.3 World 2,160.6 336.9 There is need for an integrated response to the current economic and environmental crises, says a recently released report. It calls for greening of national economies, creating green jobs, and hiking public spending on R&D for energy-efficiency and clean energy. ...
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