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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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It well may be the world's most famous office building, at least it's owners think so, but the Empire State Building is now also New York City's largest commercial purchaser of renewable energy. Under a newly-signed contract with Green Mountain Energy, 100% of the building's electricity, all 55 million kilowatt-hours of it, will come f... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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You may have seen headlines this morning about how global spam email levels have suddenly fallen, declining from approximately 200 billion spam messages in August to just 50 billion in December. Which got me thinking: Since spam is about 80% of email traffic, how much energy and gr... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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The UK may have just had the coldest December in a century, but here's an example of how the rest of the planet as a whole is still warming, even more so in the northern latitudes: As Climate Progress reports, the ... Read more...
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Photo: NASA, public domain.
Agriculture 2.0: Doing More With Less
Imagine a farmer sitting at the kitchen table or at the wheel of a GPS-controlled tractor, looking at the screen of a iPad or smartphone that shows his fields seen from above with various data-points overlaid on top. "Hmm, the North-West corner needs a bit more water today." and 'tap-tap' on the screen and the drip-irrigation system releases a bit more water there, taking into account the relative air humidity and the next few days' weather forecast. Maybe there's even a button somewhere that orders more ladybugs from a, organic p... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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We've covered the issue (or non-issue, depending on which side you're on) of wind farms causing health problems in people living nearby for some time--the whooshing sound is reportedly disruptive of sleep if you're constantly and closely exposed to it. But if you need an overview of s... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Must See for EV Geeks
Tesla's Vice President of Vehicle Engineering, Peter Rawlinson, gives us a video tour of the alpha version of Tesla's next car, the Model S electric sedan. Rawlinson's hypnotic voice is worth the price of admission alone, but anybody who's interested by EV engineering and technology should check out the 3 videos below.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Other EVs to Follow
Not to be outdone by its competitor Hertz, which announced that many models of electric cars will be available in 2011, Enterprise car rental says that it will have Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrids on offer for daily and weekly rentals later this month, though at first only at the Mark Christopher Auto Center in Ontario, California. ... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Isaac Asimov is one of the greatest science fiction writers in history -- his Foundation novels and Robot universe (which recently inspired the I, Robot Will Smith film) continue to inform popular culture to this day. Asimov was also a professor of biochemistry at Boston University and a prolific author of successful pop science books as well. In other words, the man was no slouch. No surprise then, that he speaks more eloquently about climate change in 1977 than most folks d... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo credit: Kun_Tiqi
We've covered a whole quiver of wooden surfboards in the past (links below), but the Kun_Tiqi boards somehow slipped under our radar, until showing up on the screen as one of the finalists for the international sports expo (ISPO) Brand New Award.
Contrary to most foam-based surfboards the Kun_Tiqi are crafted from 90% renewable and natural materials, primarly balsa wood, sourced from a family farm in Ecuador. Avoiding the nasty epoxy resins normally used to protect foam boards, Kun_Tiqi opts instead for a resin mixture of 98% linseed oil.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Wednesday,05 January, 2011 | Hits: 29
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