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Scientists have found a 67 million-year-old fossil of a snake coiled around dinosaur eggs and a hatchling.

Fossil fuels are, in terms of the energy they store, remarkably inexpensive to get out of the ground and sell.

Their language is regarded as something of a linguistic "fossil" and one of the oldest and most "pure" Inuit dialects.

"In the end, if they use more renewables domestically, they can export more" fossil fuels, she said. "It's sort of a no-brainer. "

It's easy to call global warming junk science as long as you are the one benefiting from burning fossil fuels to extract their energy.

But because much of this industry still relies on subsidies to be competitive with fossil fuels, it is still not a true free market.

He said that the climate talks due to conclude in Copenhagen in December were fundamental to whether the world moved away from fossil fuels.

Human beings need to make far more decisions like this: to leave fossil fuels in the ground, and to leave rainforests standing.

Climate scientist can estimate how much of the remaining fossil fuels we can safely burn.

"That's a nice dinosaur, " she said as she played in the fossil pit at the end of the trail.

But it is definitely good news to see at least one Christmas tree lot switching over from fossil fuels to solar power.

In other words, having only one type of fossil is often not enough to draw definitive conclusions about an ancient species' behavior.

The panda is often called a living fossil, having inhabited the planet since the days of the saber-toothed tiger.

But the nuclear industry needs to do more than build a few plants a year to be a true low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels.

This piece of geography, now just a fossil lake bed, is known as glacial lake Missoula.

Instead of being powered by the sun, then, some young sharks seem to run on fossil fuel.

The object, he said, was not to be an alternative for fossil fuels, but "to become a viable replacement. "

If it falls into the right category of subsidies for fossil fuels, we would have to look at our own programmes as well as others.

The next big piece of a global-warming-control plan involves learning to be more efficient with the fossil fuels we continue to burn.

The very gas we are busy pumping into the air at the rate of 30bn tonnes a year, mostly by burning fossil fuels.

You are flogging a dead horse trying to persuade him to accept the new concepts-he is absolutely an old fossil.

OCO measurements could give us an indication of how much longer we can burn fossil fuels at the rate that we're burning them now.

the oil field, with its derrick rising from the soil like a shunt to coax the earth's fossil fuel to the surface.

One way of trying to answer it is to look in the fossil record for evidence about what modern humanity's closest relatives could do.

The data used for China is to emphasize this vital fossil energy component's environmental impact upon a country so thus to the world.

Instead of finding a "living fossil" identical to an ancient beast, they have found a real fossil identical to a modern one.

In the case of this latest discovery, a fossil attributed to a dinosaur was determined to be a bird.

For the first time, we now have a complete fossil record of how much material such a newborn black hole can eat.

A couple of days later near the same spot, fossil hunter Alemayehu Asfaw found a piece of a child's jaw with a first molar tooth.

And as you go across there you will see that we've got a few tens of years, and perhaps 100 years of fossil fuels left.

The giant panda is called living fossil and is one of the world most precious endangered animals.

The only way of ensuring that does not happen is to price fossil fuels to cover the cost of the environmental damage they do.

If the flow of fossil fuels to the United States were ever cut off, the economy would come to a halt.

It also raised global concerns about the safety of nuclear power at a time when it has seen a resurgence as an alternative to fossil fuels.

A new report by the National Research Council seeks to put a dollar amount on the "hidden" costs of energy produced by burning fossil fuels.

Failure would be a blow to the United Nations as the main forum for designing a world economic model less dependent on fossil fuels.

genus of fossil plants having wood identical with or similar to that of the witch hazel.

The change to the current arrangement was gradual, new fossil studies suggest, contradicting the long-held idea of a sudden shift.

The archaeologist analyzed the fossil and found it a dinosaurian one .

So NRG, with its fossil-fuel plants, at least benefits from lower costs as electricity prices fall.

You believe that instead of trying to replace fossil fuels with other energy sources, we should let the system slide.

Scientists call it a "living fossil" because it has probably been thriving since earliest oceans were formed millions of years ago.

These targets would seem to rule out rebuilding coal-fired power stations, because coal is the most planet-warming of the fossil fuels.

It has not taken effective steps to jump-start the long transition away from heavy reliance on fossil fuels.

Results suggested that there might be a near-shore and shallow water lacustrine environment in fossil locality.

This four-million-year-old fossil has taken some of the bite out of the great white shark's supposedly menacing ancestry, a new study finds.

If you got upset about any of this, you might forget how important it is not to disrupt the record profits of our fossil fuel companies.

Getting fossil fuels to our troops on the front lines is one of the most dangerous things we do.

Recently a fossil of one of the earliest jawed fishes was found with a fetal skeleton and the remains of a cord.

Clearly, rich countries must seek to reduce pressures on the Earth: cut their ecological footprints, especially that of fossil fuels.

For the first time, scientists were able to use direct fossil evidence to make a reasonable interpretation of a dinosaur's color.

He found a piece of fossil of an ancient bird.

A "living fossil" of the species occur in a long-line forward evolution happened, was no evolutionary branches.

Fossil fuels, which (for the time being at least) are nuclear energy's principal rival, carry the risk of catastrophic climate change.

Solar energy and biology created the stored hydrocarbons in the fossil fuels we have used for so long.

In the long run, solar energy technology and device to a large number of application, and also inevitable can restrict fossil fuel prices.

Europe and Japan are signing long-term contracts for importing millions of tons of biomass in pellets, to replace fossil fuels, he said.

Thus, each of our cells appears to carry in its ribosomes "fossil" evidence of a primordial RNA world.

So far, there is no evidence of any fossil record for so-called missing link.

They found a nearly complete fossil skeleton, no bigger than a swallow, with a wingspan of just 10 inches (25 centimeters).

ANTI-CAPITALISTS are billing it as "Financial Fools' Day" and climate-change worriers are gearing up to protest against "fossil fools" .

About three-quarters of the world's fossil-fuel reserves must be left unused if dangerous climate change is to be avoided, scientists warn.

It has retained many old customs until nowadays, known as a living fossil of the Miao culture.

A second route is to diversify out of fossil fuels and into renewable sources of energy and energy conservation.

A fossil cannot be ancestral to something older than itself any more than a daughter can give birth to her own mother.

Some experts estimate that the present supply of fossil fuel will not last until the end of the next century.

Stung by the concerns of voters about petrol, governments around the world have argued for an increase in fossil fuel supplies.

The fossil snake from Argentina is also thought to have lived on land, since it was found in what was once a terrestrial environment.

Increasing use of fossil fuels means more carbon dioxide is going into the air, and most of it will eventually be absorbed by seawater.

If the local farmer uses fossil fuel to heat his greenhouse to produce crops out of season, his produce may not be the wisest purchase.

The same technique was subsequently used to determine the color of a giant fossil penguin.

of the world's fossil fuels, man is trying to develop alternate energy resources.

The findings of these geologist inspired others to examine the rock and fossil records in different parts of the world.

At a basic level, nuclear energy isn't all that different from fossil fuel energy.

On top of that, coprolites, as palaeontologists politely describe fossil faeces, have turned up with ammonite shells in them.

Described as the "most complete fossil primate ever discovered, " the specimen is a juvenile female the size of a small monkey.

But Obama has rejected calls so far for a carbon-based tax on fossil fuels, which many global warming advocates champion.

The scientists found a fossil of an ancient animal.

When the tide away, death came, but the shell of life in the time of the beach will become a beautiful fossil immortal.

The Fossil-of-the-Day Award has proven to be an effective media tool for highlighting the obstructionist tactics used by many countries.

By analyzing the shape and arrangement of the fossil melanosomes, they were able to get clues to their original color.

Traditionally, this has put agribusiness on the side of policies that would make fossil fuels cheaper and their production costs lower.

Scientists will return to the site later to try to excavate the rest of the fossil, still embedded in beach rock, Druckenmiller said.

Biodiesel is a biodegradable, nontoxic , cleaning and renewable fuel and is expected as a part of substitute for conventional fossil diesel.

There might be relatively long-term stratigraphic unconformities in successive fossil assemblage zones.

Meanwhile, fossil fuel corporations will be hit with a windfall tax that will be used to "deal with the effects of climate change. "

Some of that comes from fossil fuels like oil and coal. But more than seventy percent involves food.

"Sensational. " Western paleontologists soon made a pilgrimage to Beijing to see the fossil.

However, carbon dioxide is not the only fossil-fuel by-product to affect the climate.

He goes to see the first feather fossil in a Wyoming museum, the plumed showgirls in Las Vegas, a down-pillow factory in Seattle.

The end of short-lived age of fossil fuel is already in sight, soon we'll have consumed all the world's resources of oil and coal.

But finding such a complete snake fossil is rare, with only a half-dozen well-preserved specimen from this period.

Up to 70% of the energy needed to grow and supply food at present is fossil-fuel based which in turn contributes to climate change.

But the truth may never be known, since the "living fossil" died hours after it was caught.

The developed countries currently emit about 15bn tons of carbon dioxide a year from fossil fuel and industrial processes.

The most effective step to implement that goal would be a massive shift away from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy sources.

But to fossil collectors, Chaoyang is a paradise, only a one-hour drive from some of the Yixian Formation's most productive beds.

At least 10 year experience in heavy industry, long cycle project execution business, preferably in the fossil power generation industry.

Our global energy economy, long-powered by fossil fuels and nuclear, is spiralling into a dangerous and unstable endgame.

In addition, fossil fuels, especially coal mining produce a large amount of solid wastes that damage to the ecological environment.

CO2 does not last as long in the air as was once thought, so the big problem is slowing human use of fossil energy, especially coal.

These gases are the result of human burning fossil fuels like coal and petroleum to get industrial and domestic energy.

But they are evidence of a growing trend of warmer weather that scientists say is the result of fossil fuel combustion.

Labor is so cheap in India that it makes more sense to use a man as a pack horse than to expend fossil fuel.

"It was such an amazing fossil, " recalls paleontologist Hans-Dieter Sues of the National Museum of Natural History.

Competition over fossil fuel resources has been one of the leading sources of conflict for thousands of years.

He said his company believes the risk to Earth's climate from burning fossil fuels is real. And there are no easy answers.

If you have, it will be easy for you to understand how a fossil cast may be made.

In many parts of the country, electric cars will essentially be coal-powered, running on electricity generated by the fossil fuel.

He's found a forbidding, yet fossil-fertile spot to conduct his search.

It is better understood as a symptom of a particular development path and its globally interlaced supply-system of fossil energy.

The only problem: somehow beating back the fossil fuel industry to a point of nonexistence.

He told reporters at a recent news conference that fossil fuel prices would have to rise again before it was economically viable.

Currently, fossil fuels enjoy a huge implicit subsidy in the form of a lack of carbon pricing.

Strobel said the discovery brings into question scientists' knowledge of the way fossil fuels are made.

carbon dioxide is not the only fossil-fuel by-product to affect the climate.

A sustainable means of transport in particular, implicates that another choice than fossil fuels for the transport of energy is necessary.

The Recovery Act included $1 billion for fossil energy research and development, to be implemented by the Department of Energy.

Like those of many of his peers, his political career is kept on life support by the fossil fuel and electricity companies.

A hard, translucent, yellow, orange, or brownish-yellow fossil resin, used for making jewelry and other ornamental objects.

The fossil received blanket coverage around the world and newspapers hailed her as the "missing link" between humans and animals.

So far, the fuel used by countries around the world almost all fossil fuels, namely oil, gas and coal.

Fossil sites run up and down both lengths of that lake basin , which represents some 20, 000 square miles .

We have proved that our engines don't care what they use, performance on biofuel is just as good as performance on fossil-based jet fuel.

Fossil remains were not the only information which we now possess but which Darwin lacked .

Consumption of energy derived from fossil fuels is changing the atmosphere that we all share, regardless of where this consumption occurs.

Building huge air-capture plants to reabsorb the carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels would be a perverse outcome.

Lacking domestic fossil-fuel supplies, Haiti was spending some $500m a year importing them.

Wind can indeed supplement a grid with this needed twenty percent spinning reserve, but it cannot come close to replacing fossil fuel.

Yet the fossil fuels on which the world still depends are finite and far from environmentally friendly.

That's what somehow we were doing so far in the absence of the fossil children, so I think the new fossil fixes this problem.

Jasonme: As Chinese industry booms and automobile use spreads, the country as a whole appears to be on a feverish quest for fossil fuels.

A study of fossil teeth from grazing animals sheds light on what Europe was like during Late Miocene times.

So you can't say a whole lot of what that [type of fossil] represents in terms of evolutionary history or biology.

Yet few states are prepared to accept costly and politically unpopular curbs on the consumption of fossil fuels.

Dr Paabo, whose work on fossil DNA was the inspiration for "Jurassic Park" , has since become interested in human evolution.

"This new specimen is a real jewel among the spectacular treasure chest of the Chinese fossil record, " Wilson said.

The new genetic maps suggest that a common ancestor to beetles crept up well before its descendants showed up in the fossil record.

The fossil consists of a complete skull of an archaeocyte, an extinct group of ancestors of modern cetaceans.

Scientists in Canada say a fossil they found helps to understand how seals developed from land-based mammals.

This goal can be achieved by ending deforestation (on a net basis) and by cutting our current fossil-fuel-based emissions by one third.

At the moment, most of our energy comes from fossil fuels (natural gas and oil).

In terms of wind and raw solar energy, the flow is exceptionally diluted: solar is ten to fifty times less concentrated than fossil fuel.

Surviving relics are older than any Earth fossil, older than any other structures in our Galaxy, and limit the universe itself in raw age.

Only an aggressive research and development program might find ways of breaking our dependence on fossil fuels or dealing with it.

Making fossil-fuel energy more expensive has so far not delivered much by way of controlling emissions.

As global warming intensifies, countries are seeking for the low carbon, clean fuel to take the place of the traditional fossil fuels.

Among the applications are linkage disequilibrium mapping, stem cell evolution, and inference in the fossil record.

It will serve little purpose if other countries, including China, a huge consumer of fossil fuels, do not join in common action.

A third fossil formation containing boths oft-bodied and hard-bodied animals provides evidence of the result of the Cambrian explosion.

And then the "fossil" water, stored up in wet times, started to give out, and the civilization collapsed.

If governments decide to take action against global warming , geothermal energy will become a very attractive alternative to fossil fuels .

But the best thing a bright young person can do to help rid civilization of fossil fuels is get an education in engineering.

That connection, they contend, is still evident in wrist and hand bone features shared by African apes and by fossil and living humans.

So up to 90 per cent of Britain's wind power might need to be backed up with flexible fossil fuel plants.

The times of existence of the various hominid shown in the chart above are based on dated fossil remains.

It produces almost no fossil fuels and imports some 75% of its energy in the form of oil, coal and liquefied natural gas (LNG).

The private sector is expected to supply most capital to drive a global shift to a greener economy away from burning fossil fuels.

It is both a materialized "living fossil" of the capital history of Beijing, and a symbol of the cultural Pekinese 's aesthetic sense.

Emissions from coal are now the dominant fossil fuel emission source, surpassing 40 years of oil emission prevalence.

The supplementary forms of those pronouns gradually retired, faded and became the living fossil of the transitional interim.

Using Google Earth's high-resolution satellite imagery, he was able to identify 500 previously unidentified caves and fossil sites.

Both are looking for fossil links that will shed light on the parenting behavior of these giant extinct lizards.

And you could actually find full fossil evidence of these .

We're living in a time of mass extinctions that exceeds the fossil record by a factor of 10, 000.

Oil and other fossil fuels would have to fill the gap, he said.

A fossil formed so long after birds emerged does not, in truth, shed much light on that debate.

The ancient reef, believed to be the oldest biologically diverse fossil reef in the world, was designated last month as a U.

The Massachusetts fossil provides the earliest and perhaps best look at the body of an early flying insect.

If the investment is greater than the energy produced, then the fossil resource is no longer an energy source.

The team used radiocarbon analysis to figure out what parts of the soot come from biomass and what comes from fossil fuels .

Farm machines that use fossil fuels, like blows plows and tractors, would not be needed either.

Determining fossil gender is a challenge, but the presence of the egg is strong evidence this individual was a mature female.

Xu hopes the work will give solar cells a competitive advantage over fossil fuels, for one thing, but she won't be resting in the meantime.

An artist's rendering depicts a newly discovered dino-era "sea monster, " whose fossil skeleton was recently unearthed on an Arctic island.

In principle, biofuels are attractive replacements for liquid fossil fuels used in transport that generate greenhouse gases.

There is absolutely no fossil evidence whatsoever, that this has ever happened.

This regrettable happenstance makes it difficult for the fossil structure to be interpreted.

The fossil site in Snowmass is one of the most significant discoveries in Colorado history.

China's recent embrace of renewable energy has done little so far to slow the rise in emissions from the burning of fossil fuels.

In order to address the issues of energy crisis and environmental pollution, biofuel was an ideal alternative of fossil fuel.

The unearthing of a new fossil in northeast China, described online today in Nature, could explain the apparent contradiction.

Intelligent design advocates have said sudden shifts in the fossil record are evidence of a higher power creating new animal forms.

Using a scanning electron microscope, Mike can find clues about the pigmentation of these ancient fossil feathers.

Energy: Attitudes to nuclear power are shifting in response to climate change and fears over the security of the supply of fossil fuels.

Most of these substances directly result from the industrial, urban and vehicular combustion of fossil fuels.

In areas with higher wind speeds, wind energy can be a highly cost-effective alternative to fossil fuel generation.

Scientists have unearthed the almost complete fossil skeleton of a prehistoric snake that preyed on baby dinosaurs.

To meet this goal, industries will have to slash fossil fuel consumption, and low-carbon power sources will have to massively expand.

Any country serious about tackling climate change will therefore want more fossil-fuel-free generation elsewhere in the system.

Utilities, at any rate, must not be making the same assumptions, since they continue to invest in power plants run on fossil fuels.

While we struggle to cut down on our consumption of fossil fuels, bottled water increases them.

Dr Whiteside used fossil evidence sandwiched between layers of lava from some of the earliest eruptions that accompanied the rift.

All sectors of the consumer market must contribute to this by increasing efficiency and using fossil energies as economically as possible.

This is at least 70 million years older than some other claims for the most ancient animals in the fossil record.

Farm machines that use fossil fuels, like plows and tractors, would not be needed either.

Wyn Evans, who runs a mixed farm of 170 acres, has been trying to reduce his dependency on fossil fuels since 1977.

A global carbon tax would be a more efficient way to close the price gap between fossil and alternative fuels.

Compared with fossil fuels, biomass can provide a carbon-neutral form of energy.

But wind is only an interim stop on the way to a world where electricity no longer relies on fossil fuels.

Hydrogen vehicles are the future and provide one of the ways to stop using fossil fuels.

Researchers used computed tomography or to analyze the skulls of 190-million-year-old mammals found in a Jurassic-era fossil bed in China.

Dissolution was controlled by lithology, the destructiveness of the uplifted fossil reservoirs and their relationship with faults.

Compared to fossil energy sources, forest tree is one of renewable and cleaning energy sources.

Given that, where is it most likely to be possible to leave fossil fuels in the ground?

On one side of that date in the fossil timeline are the various species of Australopithecus, the first great apes to walk on two feet.

Despite the fact she works in a city built on fossil fuels, Spanjian says that locals are receptive to her ideas.

However fossil fuels as they combust produce an emission which is harmful to earth and humans alike known as carbon monoxide .

But they would not address the big problem with shale gas and all fossil fuels: the global warming they cause.

as a prime mover , a small hydro turbine can produce the independence power for agriculture and industrial machines without fossil fuel.

The origins of the new fossil are a little murky having originally been purchased from a dealer.

While cleaner than fossil fuels, man-made steam faces its own environmental concerns, primarily the threat of small, man-made earthquakes.

Carbon emissions from the burning of fossil fuels have increased since the Industrial Revolution.

Microscopic structures from other fossil species, ranging from bats to ichthyosaurs, have been interpreted by some as melanosomes.

With virtually no natural resources, Japan has considered nuclear power as an alternative to oil and other fossil fuels since the 1960s.

They appear in the fossil record and immediately grow abundant and varied, creating a problem for his theory of slow but continuous change.

Defining sustainability vexes hydrologists too, particularly with ancient fossil aquifers that will inevitably run dry eventually.

Chinese Homo erectus fossil, which is usually called a Peking ape-man or Chinese ape-man .

This paper provides evidence to prove that the trace fossil assemblages are of great value in determining lake coastal zones.

You know, so humans generate about 12 trillion watts, or 12 terawatts, from fossil fuels.

The fossil lungfish is a new species, but a name cannot be given because of its uncertain origin.

Leading scientists around the world agree that man-made greenhouse gases from fossil fuels are causing global warming.

Mountain fires which occur mostly during mid-summer will send smoke into the air and pollute it. Burning of fossil fuel will also do so.

As the exhaustion of fossil fuel, the reproducible biomass energy will become one of the effective way to replace it.

Curbing the world's dependence on fossil fuels has always been difficult. The agonies of Fukushima will make it even harder.

Technically, it is safer than running on fossil fuel because you are no longer choking on your own emissions (health-wise).

Onepresentation contended that volcanoes emitted far more carbon dioxidethan human activities like the burning of fossil fuels.

Other ways to reduce fossil fuel use include transport policies that cut the number of journeys employees make, particularly by aeroplane.

The only real solution to global warming is to end our dependency on fossil fuels.

Fossil fuels sources burn coal or hydrocarbon fuels, which are the remains of the decomposition of plants and animals.

The film is an exploration of the imminent energy transition from fossil fuels to alternative energy sources.

"Without earlier fossil evidence in Africa, we're currently looking to Asia as the place where these animals first evolved. "

On a more positive note for American consumers, oil prices receded amid reports of falling domestic demand for fossil fuels.

Equally divided between fossil fuels and mining products in the export of material, only a tiny fraction of biological export.

In a world where fossil fuel provides more than 80 percent of energy, what would it take to go completely green?

The company supplies valves and other related products to China's oil and gas, nuclear and fossil power sectors.

Reserves of all fossil fuels are finite, so far the long pull the world is forture in having nuclear energy.

Fuel- producing microbes long seemed more like a sci - fi pipe dream than a viable solution to the fossil-fuel crisis .

The evidence discussed here shows that most of this atmospheric increase is due to the burning of fossil fuels.

Meanwhile, it looks like the Cretaceous version of shore birds were becoming relatively common, based on fossil findings.

The jury is still out, though fossil charcoal shows that forest fires were common at the time.

Burning fossil fuels releases carbon dioxide, which many scientists describe as the biggest man-made contributor to global warming.

Instead, the president instructed America's lawmakers to "seriously tackle our addiction to fossil fuels" .

Of course, some fossil fuels are worse than others, but so far, coal is the worst as far as toxic pollution and GHG emissions.

Without nuclear power, the vast majority of that demand will be met by fossil energy.

His findings, confirmed many times by others, are central to the argument that fossil fuels must be taxed or regulated.

As the ice retreats the oil companies want to send the rigs in and drill for the fossil fuels that got us into this mess in the first place.

In this way some of the solar energy becomes trapped in rocks as(---hence) the name fossil fuel.

fossil, molecules, sulfur With oil around 100 dollars a barrel , this may be a good time for a short history of petroleum .

Over the years, the oil, coal and natural gas as the main fossil fuels, provided the world with about 90% of the energy.