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...million-year-old dinosaur with 4-in. claws and spoon-shaped molars unveiled last week. Scientists say it offers the first glimpse into how dinos made the transition from small, agile meat eaters to elephant-size vegetarians. Falcarius, as it turns out, was dug up by a black-market fossil collector named Lawrence Walker, who found it on federal land in Utah while digging at night under a tarp. Convinced he was onto something big, the poacher tipped off a paleontologist he knew, James Kirkland, and led him to the site. Kirkland tried to protect his source but, asked under...
...nearly as big as more famous natural-history museums in Chicago, Washington and New York City; in fact, the whole thing would probably fit neatly inside one of their exhibition halls. And its nine replicas of dinosaur skeletons and skulls don't quite measure up to the rich fossil collections on display elsewhere...
Only if they replace oil consumption. Building nuclear plants or wind farms to produce electricity, for example, won't add a barrel of oil to the world's supply because we generally don't use oil for electricity. Most electric-power plants run on coal or natural gas, another fossil fuel that will eventually peak, although later than oil will. Building more terminals to receive liquefied natural gas, as Bush has suggested, simply makes it easier for us to import more natural...
...Britain's green living charts because it's a pioneer in microgeneration - the local production of clean, renewable power by individuals and small communities to meet their own energy needs. As evidence of global warming increases, microgeneration is touted as a sustainable alternative to the fossil fuels that help form greenhouse gases. Conservationists argue that only clean energy technologies derived from wind, solar, wave and other natural power sources can ensure a healthy environment and sustainable economic growth. Micropower is far less of an imposition on the landscape, though, than big wind farms and solar arrays, and it's also...
...Spain, the agricultural town of Cuéllar, in the central province of Segovia, generates hot water and heating for 250 homes by burning pine bark and other wood residuals. The system, using no fossil fuel and similar to BedZED's wood-burning plant, also heats an indoor swimming pool, a cultural center and a school. Spain now produces 7% of the world's solar photovoltaic energy, and solar sources are "growing at a 50% clip per year," says Javier García Breva, director of the Institute for Energy Diversification and Savings, the government body responsible for promoting...