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...especially fond of the organisms that live inside undersea tube worms, existing on sulphur filtering out of deep-sea thermal vents...

Author: By Chana R. Schoenberger, | Title: Cavanaugh Backs Bacteria | 3/14/1997 | See Source »

Last week intrepid birders--they don't call themselves bird watchers anymore--were combing western Washington and southwestern British Columbia in pursuit of, among other species, the black-footed albatross and crested myna. Or they were in southeastern Arizona, stalking the violet-crowned hummingbird and sulphur-bellied flycatcher, all the while praying for a glimpse of the rare eared trogon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROGER TORY PETERSON: 1908-1996: THE BIRDMAN OF AMERICA | 8/12/1996 | See Source »

...main provisions of this bill was its setting of a specific amount of sulphur dioxide, 10 million tons, to be removed from the environment by the year...

Author: By Mallory A. Stewart, | Title: Sharp Discusses Environment Laws | 8/4/1995 | See Source »

...aftermath of the U.S.-Canadian Free Trade Agreement "The Canadian prime minister was really pressuring the president to address the acid rain issue," Porter said. The Canadian atmosphere receives a large amount of the American industries' sulphur dioxide wastes...

Author: By Mallory A. Stewart, | Title: Sharp Discusses Environment Laws | 8/4/1995 | See Source »

...times the space of conventional gasoline tanks to push even the lightest cars a fraction of the distance -- less than 100 miles at 25 m.p.h. Nickel-cadmium batteries provide 50% more power but at eight times the price (around $30,000, replaceable every two or three years). Sodium-sulphur batteries offer three times the energy but run both hot (at temperatures of 600 degrees F) and volatile. When exposed to water in crash impacts, they have an unpleasant tendency to produce a vehicular meltdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Off and Humming | 4/26/1993 | See Source »

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