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...parking lots and chemically treated, weed-free grass has never lived up to its promise. No mass transit means that millions of minivans clog our roads and foul our air. Malls and office complexes have lovely little atriums with trees, even as their power plants consume vast reservoirs of fossil fuels to air condition them...
...clumps of gray clay. At dozens of sites around the world, that clay has been found in a thin boundary layer between the rock of the Tertiary period and the formations of the late Cretaceous period, which ended 65 million years ago. In the Cretaceous rock lie the fossil remains of giant dinosaurs and a profusion of other species. But in the Tertiary formations, just above the clay, no trace exists of the dinosaurs or many of the other Cretaceous species...
Power companies get to play the heavy in more than their share of environmental dramas. If they're not damming scenic rivers or generating nuclear waste, they're burning fossil fuels, contributing to acid rain, urban smog and the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. In that regard, American utilities have a lot to answer for. The U.S., with 5% of the world's population, produces a quarter of the global output of carbon dioxide, the major greenhouse gas, of which fully one-third comes directly from the smokestacks of the companies that supply Americans with their heat...
...project, called the "24-Cities study," is being conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health (SPH), and focuses on the effects of high concentration of acid aerosols--the byproducts of burning fossil fuels--on children...
...Cities study showed that there were noticeable health effects, such as a substantial increase in respiratory illness in "dirty" cities, that resulted from the burning of coal and other fossil fuels. This process releases sulfur dioxide and other acidic chemicals into the air, said both professors...