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...what about fossil Grant Fuhr? After getting traded to Los Angeles to be reunited with old buddy Wayne Gretzky (The Great One wouldn't have anything to do with that, would he?), the golfing nut hasn't helped out Kelley Hrudey with...
...natural to think that the greening of the peninsula might signal the much-debated advent of global warming, caused by the accumulation in the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other gases released by the burning of fossil fuels. As long ago as 1978 a paper in the journal Nature urged scientists to look to Antarctica for early indications of the so-called greenhouse effect--among them the breakup of ice shelves off the Antarctic Peninsula...
...same map, in combination with the fossil record, confirms that Africa was the birthplace of humanity and thus the starting point of the original human migrations. Those findings, plus the great genetic distance between present-day Africans and non-Africans, indicate that the split from the African branch is the oldest on the human family tree...
...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...
That leaves no way around a heavy dependence on coal. The best China can hope for, say experts, is to cut coal's portion of the energy mix from 75% to 60% by 2010. The imperative, then, is to find cleaner, more efficient ways to burn the plentiful fossil fuel, reducing emissions of carbon dioxide, sulfur compounds and the incompletely combusted particles that form soot...