April 2012 Blog Posts (7)

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Greetings from IDSAsr and a very good morning



Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies is proposing to bring out a special issue on:



Policy Intervention in CDM and carbon Market: Indian Experience.



It will be highly appreciated if you please submit a story/research paper to be included in this proposal.  It will be published by the…

http://window2nature.net/2012/04/19/over-100-sperm-whales-gather-in-kalpitiya-onlookers-puzzled/

by Malaka Rodrigo…

Photo by Howard Ehrenberg

John Chatterton’s name first came into the public consciousness as one of the main subjects of Robert Kurson’s bestselling book…

Thirty years ago a small boy stood in the shade of a big tree and has his little mind blown. It was — and still is — the biggest tree on the planet.

The tree was a Sierra Redwood and it lived in California’s Sequoia National Park. I was there with my family on our first ever holiday to a foreign country, back in 1982 when I was just eight years old. That’s me in the photo alongside my nature loving Dad, who back then was a hard-working bus driver…

In October of 2009, I began hearing reports of encounters between local San Diego divers and Sevengill sharks [Notorynchus cepedianus]. Having been diving locally since 2000, I thought this unusual, since this was the first I had heard of these encounters in nearly a decade. Between 2000 and 2006, almost no reports were…

San Diego diver John Huber was able to video both a Sevengill shark (Notorynchus cepedianus) and a Tope or Soupfin  Shark (Galeorhinus galeus) the other day at La Jolla Cove.

The Sevengill shark is seen…