Word: sunlight
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wind, or wind-blown sunlight itself...
Perhaps most engaging are Edmunds' interactions with nature--in the form of personified plants. These pieces are short enough that they can sustain themselves to the end, without the scarlet-hued melodrama of death or memory fading them. They are appropriately infused with sunlight by more lively color images. One of Edmunds' most vital poems, "Willows Coming Into Leaf," has haiku-like impact...
Similarly, he says that efforts to lessen sulfur dioxide emissions in order to reduce acid rain could have a negative effect, by cutting down the number of particles in the atmosphere. This would mean that less sunlight is reflected back into space, increasing global warming...
...Chicxulub contains abundant amounts of sulfur. The blast must have vaporized the sulfur, they say, and spewed more than 100 billion tons of it into the atmosphere, where it mixed with moisture to form tiny drops of sulfuric acid. These drops created a barrier that could have reflected enough sunlight back into space to drop temperatures to near freezing, and could have remained airborne for decades. "It could have been up to a century," says Kevin Baines, an atmostpheric scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "Most of us are betting on 20 to 40 years...
Finally, he broke through the five layers of brick from the outside, and the sunlight rushed inside. It illuminated the ghastly contents of a furnace...