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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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Biofuel for thought

The biofuel craze was started by the United States. It is rooted in the US politics of keeping corn prices high in the Midwest and its refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Huge amounts of genetically-engineered (GE) American corn was stockpiling because the European Union (EU), America’s traditional market for corn, refused to buy GE corn. So the stockpiled corn has been made into the feedstock to produce ethanol. With its biofuel approach, the US fulfils two purposes, that of creating high-value markets for its surplus corn and appearing to do something for "clean energy" despite not signing the Kyoto Protocol....
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Saturday,20 June, 2009 | Hits: 54

Spiritual by Nature

Once upon a time, we knew how to live amicably with nature, in a spirit of give and take. We need to go back to the future and redefine development, says Narayani Ganesh. One hundred Legislators from across the world converged here to participate in the G8+5 Legislators Forum on climate change ahead of next months G8 summit in the Italian city of L'Aquila. Add two-dozen journalists and pundits and our guilt quotient shoots up with our expanding carbon footprint. But as the conference wore on, my thoughts began to wander......
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Saturday,20 June, 2009 | Hits: 59

Security scare after Aila

Cyclonic storms like Aila can trigger serious security concerns, a recent study by the Delhi –based Tat Energy Research Institute (TERI) had found....
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Saturday,20 June, 2009 | Hits: 61

Adapting with nature

The dangers of rising sea levels, crop failures and extreme weather were all faced by our ancestors who learnt to adapt and survive in the face of climate change. Research led by the University of Leicester suggest-people today and in future generations should look to the past in order to mitigate the worst effects of climate change. The dangers of rising sea level, crop failure and extreme weather were all faced by our ancestors who learnt to adapt and survive in the face of climate change....
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Friday,19 June, 2009 | Hits: 59

Oceans Rising Faster Than UN Forecast, Scientists Say

Polar ice caps are melting faster and oceans are rising more than the United Nations projected just two years ago, 10 universities said in a report suggesting that climate change has been underestimated....
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Friday,19 June, 2009 | Hits: 72

The need for geoengineering

Cutting greenhouse gases is no longer enough to deal with global warmingIf we’re going to avoid climate disaster, we’re going to have start getting a lot more direct. We’re going to have to think about cooling the planet.The concept is called geoengineering, and in the past few years, it has gone from being dismissed as a fringe idea to the subject of intense debates in the halls of power. Many of us who have been watching this subject closely have gone from being skeptics to advocates. Very reluctant advocates, to be sure, but advocates nonetheless.What has changed? Quite simply, as the effects of global warming have worsened, policy makers have failed to meet the challenge. As a result, if we want to avoid an unprecedented global catastrophe, we may have no other choice but to reduce the impact of global warning, alongside focusing on the factors that are causing it in the first place. That is, while we continue to work aggressively to reduce the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere, we also need to consider lowering the temperature of the Earth itself. ...
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Thursday,18 June, 2009 | Hits: 79

Environmental opportunities

For India to preserve its crucial ecological system, it must look beyond endangered species’ protection The upcoming dialogues on global warming and the state of the urban environment are grist for the mill in today’s media. But they ought not to detract from a critical dimension of the new century’s ecological dilemmas, one in which India will be a key arena. ...
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Thursday,18 June, 2009 | Hits: 105

A lifeline for suicide zones

A Rs627 –core project’s six Vidarbha’s six suicide-prone, cotton-producing districts will help farmers is capacity building, increasing the farm produce and marketing. Animal husbandry, dairy farming and pisciculture, too, will be promoted....
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Thursday,18 June, 2009 | Hits: 80

‘Private initiative required to promote science’

For several Indians, the prospect of spending a night without power supply itself nightmarish. For Vishnu Vardhan Reddy though, they were an inspiriting to a career in astronomy. Hailing from the small town of Sulurpeta in Andhra Pradesh (where power cuts are as common is the starry sky above), Reddy would spend sleepless nights watching bright stars an constellation on the sky, itching to study them more deeply with a telescope....
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Thursday,18 June, 2009 | Hits: 57

J-K asks for Rs 100 cr for cleaning Jhelum

Jammu and Kashmir government has sought a central fund of Rs100 crore to carry out dredging of river Jhelum to avert flood damages in state, ...
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Thursday,18 June, 2009 | Hits: 88

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