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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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Kashmir’s gushing springs stand to lose their lifeline

Kashmir is on the verge of losing its most cherished natural gifts the gushing streams, springs and rivers the make it a paradise on earth because the Kolahoi glaciers that feeds these is on the melt....
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Thursday,04 June, 2009 | Hits: 89

Tech majors team up to save the climate from computes

The body seeks to reduce global CO2 emission from computers by 54 mm tons per annum or equivalent to the fumes from 11 million cars: A global movement started by Google and Intel in 2007 to reduce the carbon footprint of computers drastically has come to India.The Climate Savers Computing Initiative (CSCI), a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, business and conservation organizations that also include the likes of CSC, Dell, HP, Intel Lenovo and Microsoft, seeks to reduce the global CO2 emission from the operation of computer by 54 million tones per annum, That is the same as the annual output of 11 million cars or 10-20 coal-fired power plants, says the CSCI. ...
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Thursday,04 June, 2009 | Hits: 145

Mahogany trees to line SP Ring Road

CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS IN 2008 DISTRICT TOTAL PER CAPITA PER RS 1 LAKH PRODUCTION Ahmedabad 9.58 1.58 1.73 Gandhinagar 10.56 7.31 9.83 Surat 32.62 5.82 6.79 Jamnagar 17.52 8.52 10.22 Kheda 17.44 8.09 16.54 Junagadh 11.55 4.40 8.69 What is the carbon footprint:A carbon footprint is the total set of greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions, like Carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide emitted directly of indirectly by an individual, organization, event or products. Methane and nirous oxide gases have 21 and 310 times greater warming effect respectively than carbon dioxide....
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Thursday,04 June, 2009 | Hits: 95

Kidnapped child rescued

An 18-month-old boy kidnapped by an employee of his father from the Walled City of Delhi on Monday has been accused has been arrested....
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Thursday,04 June, 2009 | Hits: 23

Vedic Perspective On The Environment

The World Environment Day theme this year exhorts people to help combat climate change for our collective survival. It is interesting to know that the ancient Vedas have several references in them on environmental protection, ecological balance, weather cycles, rainfall phenomena, hydrologic cycle, and related subjects that directly indicate the high level of awareness of the seers and people of that time....
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Wednesday,03 June, 2009 | Hits: 119

Climate change driving away villagers

Some 160 villages in northern Syria were deserted by their residents in 2007 and 2008 because of climate change, according to a study released on Tuesday....
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Wednesday,03 June, 2009 | Hits: 91

The Climate Change

How does this change impact the climate sensitive sectors of Jammu and Kashmir, writes Dr. Mohit Gera. Tomorrow is the world Environment Day and the theme chosen by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) this year is “Your Planet Needs to agree on a new agreement as the forthcoming crucial climate convention at Copenhagen in December this year. The Fourth Assessment Report of Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) released in 2007 clearly states that the worming of earth’s climate is unequivocal and it is no longer relevant to discuss whether the climate is changing but rather how much change we are committed to and how fast this will occur....
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Wednesday,03 June, 2009 | Hits: 50

Miners to pay environment fee

The State Government has at last woken up to the widespread damage mining and quarrying activities are causing tom the environment. The Government has imposed the “Environment Protection Fee” at the rate of Rs84,000 per hectare on companies mining and quarrying on non-forest, revenue and patta land in the State. A gazette notification to this effect has been issued on May 28....
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Wednesday,03 June, 2009 | Hits: 63

Cremation reforms: An environmental compulsion

How very Strange, While we have a plethora of reforms for various aspects connected with human life, there is never a mention of reforms regarding disposal of the human dead. Cremation practices devised Eons ago in keeping with the Circumstances and customs prevailing the have been followed to this day without anyone daring to question them, A death in a family has a traumatic effect where by logic and reason cease to exist, An questioning of the laid producers and practices is considered sacrilegious. It is high time these practices are brought under the scanner. Their logic and relevance should be re-evaluated vis-à-vis the totally changed life styles, global warming, exploding population, deteriorating environment and so on....
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Tuesday,02 June, 2009 | Hits: 55

Row ends; energy bureau will notify auto fuel efficiency norms

The country’s law ministry has asked the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) to notify fuel efficiency standards and labeling for vehicles in India, effectively ending a year-long turf battle between ministries....
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Tuesday,02 June, 2009 | Hits: 91

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