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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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Photo credit: PRNewsFoto/IBM
Knowing that a species is endangered is one thing, but knowing how to save it is a whole other problem. For the Grevy's zebra, which has only 2,500 individuals left in the wild, how and why people hunt them. IBM has created a new predictive analytics software that Marwell Wildlife can use to collect huge amounts of complex information -- such as what herdsmen think about the zebras, where the animals are located, why they hunt the... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via alistairas
The Environmental Protection Agency decided that external power adapters aren't eligible for inclusion in the Energy Star Label program, the reason being that they're doing too good a job meeting qualifications anyway. Since most external adapters meet qualifications, there's no point in wasting resources putting them through the labeling process. On the one hand, it makes perfect sense to streamline the program where possible (after all, Energy Star is ... Read more...
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Image credit: SolarAid
From transforming school performance with solar-powered electrification, to saving lives by displacing kerosene lamps, UK-based SolarAid is one of those charities that we TreeHuggers can't help but love. And it seems we're not alone—in fact SolarAid announced earlier this year that it was planning a ... Read more...
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Images via Penn State, Credit Timetree of Life project
How are humans linked to prehistoric bacteria? When did cats and dogs evolve away from each other? Everything you wanted to know about the timescale of life on Earth is heaped in one giant project called TimeTree of Life, a brilliant idea to chart the entire timescale of the evolution of life on our planet. It was dreamed up by Sudhir Kumar, a Ph.D. grad from Penn State and who is now director of the Biodesign Institute's Center for Evolutionary Medicine and Informatics at Arizona State University. The project... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Photo via CNET, Credit: Yahoo
The big competitive race for data centers these days isn't how many servers they can hold, but how efficiently they can hold them. It leads to some pretty cool (literally) architectural ideas, from keeping servers in shipping containers to storing them in cathedrals. But Yahoo has gone a different route. Taking a cue from the efficient cooling of chicken coops, the company has modeled their latest data center aft... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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photo: Procsilas Moscas via flickr
Today Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to announce a $50 million pledge of seed money, distributed over five years, to help the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves provide 100 million clean-burning biomass cookstoves by 2020 to people in Africa, Asia and South America... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Inhabitat calls it the "World's first solar powered air conditioning unit", as does the Shandong Vicot Air Conditioning Company. That is a rather grand statement, given that another Chinese company, BROAD, has been doing it for years , and there are direct solar powered air conditioners installed from Brooklyn to ... Read more...
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Soaring With a Unique Point of View
I just found a couple of great videos filmed by miniature cameras strapped on birds of preys (thank you ... Read more...
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photo: Ron Almog via flickr
Among the more high risk methods of geoengineering, methods that reflect sunlight away from the Earth to counteract temperature rise are right up there in terms of potential unintended consequences. Well, a new piece of research from scientists at the University of Bristol and published in ... Read more...
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the hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica. Image: NASA, public domain.
But It Will Take Longer for Holes at the Poles
According to a report titled "Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion 2010" by U.N. scientists, the ozone layer has finally stopped thinning and could recover to pre-1980 levels by 2045-2060, though the annual springtime ozone hole over Antarctica (pictured above) is not expected to recover until 2073. The Montreal Protocol that banned many ozone-depleting chemicals, signed in 1987, is mostly responsible for the recovery.... Read the full story on TreeHugger
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