Word: fossilizing
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...their country's future -- and actually good for the environment as a whole. They say it will prevent the periodic flooding that has claimed 500,000 lives in this century. More important, its production of clean hydroelectric power will reduce China's reliance on coal, the dirtiest of all fossil fuels, which now supplies 75% of the country's energy needs. The burning of coal has cast a pall of pollution over major Chinese cities and helped make pulmonary disease the nation's leading cause of death...
...fossil embryo suggests the "monsters" were caring parents...
...start with, says Norell, the eggs he found are identical to eggs uncovered in 1923, also in the Gobi, by the famed fossil hunter Roy Chapman Andrews. Most of the bones in the area Andrews explored belonged to a vegetarian dinosaur called Protoceratops, so Andrews thought the eggs did too. Since a predator's remains were found lying on top of one clutch of eggs, scientists assumed that it had died in the act of eating them and named it Oviraptor, or egg stealer. But Norell's discovery makes it clear that the unfairly maligned "thief" was more likely...
Arrayed along the pipelines of Enron Oil & Gas in the American Southwest is a series of boxy monitors that transmit data about the flow of the company's precious fossil fuels. The telecommunications devices draw their power not from the fuels they monitor but from shiny panels that capture the energy of the sun. Are these solar-powered invaders of the oil patch the technological portents of a coming era? Or are they merely emblematic of the bit part solar has played thus far in the world's energy equation? No one knows for sure, but corporate investors, who have...
Pollution, like the recent oil spill in Russia, and the threat of global climate change have rudely reminded nations that fossil fuels carry with them heavy costs even when the purchase price is low. In the developing world, alternative forms of energy enjoy increasing cachet as governments wonder how to provide power for billions of people who lack electricity, knowing full / well that cities such as New Delhi, Beijing and Mexico City are choking under blankets of smog. Most important of all: renewables are beginning to earn respect in the marketplace. During the past decade, improvements in technology and manufacturing...