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...Although many had once assumed that the oceans and plants would absorb all the gas emissions from cars and factories, his so-called Keeling Curve has charted consistent annual increases in carbon dioxide in different locations since the mid-1950s?a pattern clearly linked to humans' increased consumption of fossil fuels, which release carbon dioxide when burned...
...house on 150 acres of land near Lake Ontario. This haven does more than satisfy an author's need for peace and quiet. A vast inland sea once covered the property, and Davies can refresh his conviction that the world is full of surprises every time he finds a fossil in his garden...
...environmental indicators and surprising biology are only part of what makes wholesale gene prospecting so promising. Hydrogen has been touted as a clean-burning replacement for fossil fuels, for example, and, says Patrinos, "there are already bugs out there that produce hydrogen." If gene prospectors could isolate the responsible gene, he explains, and splice it into a common bacterium, just as genetic engineers have done for years with the gene that produces human insulin, "we can duplicate it on industrial scales...
...Three Mile Island accident seemed to have sealed its fate, nuclear power has "a head of steam now that it hasn't had before," says Andrew White, head of General Electric's nuclear-energy business. Concerns about global warming and demand for electricity are growing, and prices for fossil fuels like natural gas are steadily rising. Even environmentalists like Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand, Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore and scientist James Lovelock have endorsed the once taboo energy source as a credible, clean alternative to coal- and natural-gas-powered plants. While most Americans still don't want...
When Sue's skeletal remains were bought eight years ago by Chicago's Field Museum for $8.4 million, the biggest bucks ever spent on a dinosaur fossil, plenty of jaws of the human variety dropped. Sue, the largest and most intact Tyrannosaurus rex found anywhere, has proved to be the most marketable dinosaur on the planet. The museum last week celebrated Sue's fifth "birthday" (she was first unveiled in 2000) with theater performances, dino-size puppets and super-size cakes. Along with such merchandise as T shirts and a Sue backpack ($22.95), 14 new Sue-themed toys, including paintable...