Word: fossils
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...human population has exploded over the past few thousand years, the delicate ecological balance that kept the Long Summer going has become threatened. The rise of industrialized agriculture has thrown off Earth's natural nitrogen and phosphorus cycles, leading to pollution on land and water, while our fossil-fuel addiction has moved billions of tons of carbon from the land into the atmosphere, heating the climate ever more. (See the top 10 green ideas...
...Raptorex came to light, meanwhile, is a story in itself. About three years ago, Sereno, who usually does his own fossil-hunting, was approached by ophthalmologist and avid fossil collector Henry Kriegstein for help in identifying a newly purchased specimen. Kriegstein had bought the fossil legally, but when Sereno saw it, he became convinced it was from China and that it had almost certainly been smuggled out of that country. "I told him that I'd help," says Sereno, "but only if he was willing to donate the fossil to science and let us return it to China when...
Kriegstein agreed. Sereno, in turn, gave the remarkable specimen Kriegstein's surname (in honor of his parents, Holocaust survivors who are still alive), and listed Kriegstein as a co-author on perhaps the most important paleontology paper of the year. "In the normal course of things," says Sereno, "this fossil could have ended up on someone's mantelpiece or been forgotten in an attic somewhere and lost to science. Now China gets its property back, and Dr. Kriegstein has found immortality for his family. Everybody wins...
...with fine particulates smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter - with higher rates of heart disease and stroke, it wasn't clear exactly how the particulates did their damage. Nor was it clear which of the many components of urban air were the most hazardous - the fine particulates from burning fossil fuels that come from exhaust pipes, or the ozone gases that permeate most densely packed city streets...
...September 2 opinion piece “Old King Coal” (Op-ed, ANTHONY P. DEDOUSIS) contained errors about the impact of the ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant. TVA is responsible for the spill and its clean-up, and we would like your readers to have the facts...