• In Australia, 22 local governments - including the Lismore Council in New South Wales's Northern Rivers district and the Randwick and Leichhardt Councils in Sydney - have also committed to divesting from fossil fuels. (eco-business.com)
  • This is why divesting from fossil fuels and fighting to end environmental racism goes hand in hand with defunding the police in the fight for racial justice and reinvestment in Black and Brown communities. (truthout.org)
  • The United Church of Christ, a Protestant denomination with more than 1 million members, has become the first major religious organization to vote to divest from fossil fuel companies in the United States. (boulderweekly.com)
  • Fossil Free La Trobe activists celebrate the university's announcement on May 25 that it will fully divest from fossil fuel companies over the next five years. (eco-business.com)
  • The climate crisis is carrying a mounting health toll that is set to put even more lives at risk without bold action to phase out planet-warming fossil fuels, a new report from more than 100 scientists and health practitioners found. (yahoo.com)
  • Tens of thousands of climate activists around the world are set to march, chant and protest Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as the globe continues to suffer dramatic weather extremes and topple heat records. (news10.com)
  • Tens of thousands of climate activists around the world launched protests Friday to call for an end to the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels as the globe suffers dramatic weather extremes and record-breaking heat, with plans to continue through the weekend. (news10.com)
  • Evidence was presented that human actions, principally the burning of fossil fuels and associated release of climate pollutants, are causing significant changes to the global climate system. (who.int)
  • Although nickel is commonly found in the air, it is present in higher concentrations where there is environmental pollution as a result of the burning of fossil fuels or the processing of nickel. (cdc.gov)
  • This paper introduces utility-scale underground hot water storage (USUHWS) systems and evaluates their performance to enable renewable energy sources to produce dispatchable utility-scale power or supply heat with minimized interruption and impact by weather conditions. (techscience.com)
  • The USUHWS systems could retain the thermal energy content of the stored hot water for years so that renewable energy can be extracted and stored at any time year-round and be used whenever needed. (techscience.com)
  • In combination with renewable-energy-based thermal power plants using hot water as the heat-supply fluid, the USUHWS systems could have the potential to phase out most fossil fuels used today through renewable power production and heat supplies to combat global warming. (techscience.com)
  • Why are the Costs of Renewable Energy Lower than Fossil Fuels? (azocleantech.com)
  • When you account for the effects which are not reflected in the market price of fossil fuels, like air pollution and health impacts, the true cost of coal and other fossil fuels is higher than the cost of most renewable energy technologies. (skepticalscience.com)
  • WASHINGTON - On Friday, more than 170 social-justice, environmental, faith, health and labor groups urged key policymakers to implement lifesaving bans on utility disconnections, ramp up renewable energy and resilient water systems, and phase out fossil fuels - the root cause of this summer's extreme heat. (freepress.net)
  • People are dying here, and the longer we delay building out renewable energy and phasing out fossil fuels the more people will suffer. (freepress.net)
  • Angus Taylor has tabled amendments to legislation governing the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), seeking to redefine polluting gas infrastructure as a "low emissions technology" in an attempt to prop up the ailing fossil fuels industry using public money meant for renewable energy. (foe.org.au)
  • At a time of economic crisis, Scott Morrison and Angus Taylor should not be squandering public money meant for renewable energy to help out mates in the fossil fuels industries. (foe.org.au)
  • Other tertiary institutions in Australia, such as The University of Sydney in New South Wales, the Australian National University in Canberra and Melbourne's Monash and Swinburne Universities have taken some steps to shift away from fossil fuel investments, but La Trobe is the first to commit to full divestment. (eco-business.com)
  • Can the Balkans steer away from fossil fuels? (euronews.com)
  • Between them, 35 of the world's biggest banks have provided $2.7 trillion (£2tn) to fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement was officially signed at the end of 2015. (bigissue.com)
  • The fossils include some of the world's oldest known flax snails , an extinct sawshark spine, great white shark teeth, and at least 10 previously known species. (popsci.com)
  • Comes with a brush, magnifying glass, and fossil identification card just like real paleontologists do. (propertyroom.com)
  • Paleontologists like us are used to working with fossils that would seem bizarre to many biologists accustomed to living creatures. (salon.com)
  • Paleontologists sifted through thousands of 3 to 3.7 million year-old fossils in New Zealand, which also included great white shark teeth and the spine of an extinct sawshark. (popsci.com)
  • If you look at the fossil fuels industry as a whole it has absolutely made life better for everybody. (abc.net.au)
  • How science textbooks in Texas address climate change is at the center of a key vote expected Friday, Nov. 17, 2023 after some Republican education officials criticized books for being too negative toward fossil fuels in America's biggest oil and gas state. (mywabashvalley.com)
  • Sign up for the webinar on 21 June 2023 where TNO experts will present three unique technologies that convert carbon en CO2 into sustainable products. (tno.nl)
  • Impact of suburbanization on ground water quality and denitrification in coastal aquifer sediments. (cdc.gov)
  • Through detailed physical and chemical studies of fossils and sediments, I hope to add some puzzle pieces to the history of Earth and life. (lu.se)
  • As the world rebounded from Covid-19 in 2021, there was a significant rise in overall energy use, most of which was met by fossil fuels. (joannenova.com.au)
  • And as we go farther back in Earth's history, the fossils start to look even weirder. (salon.com)
  • But at present about 96% of hydrogen is currently produced with fossil fuels or the equivalent plant- or bio-based fuels. (tristatehomepage.com)
  • Is Hydrogen the Best Fuel Option to Replace Fossil Fuels? (azocleantech.com)
  • This article will overview pink hydrogen, its production process, recent developments, and prospects as a sustainable fossil-fuel alternative. (azocleantech.com)
  • Series of four still images from a sample video showing how a photoreactor from Rice University splits water molecules and generates hydrogen when stimulated by simulated sunlight. (innovationtoronto.com)
  • All devices of this type produce green hydrogen using only sunlight and water, but ours is exceptional because it has record-breaking efficiency and it uses a semiconductor that is very cheap," Fehr said. (innovationtoronto.com)
  • The Mohite lab and its collaborators created the device by turning their highly-competitive solar cell into a reactor that could use harvested energy to split water into oxygen and hydrogen. (innovationtoronto.com)
  • This Jacqueline Stainless Steel Watch by Fossil adds some Mississippi Universi. (pricegrabber.com)
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  • Even if every Western dam stays in place, we'll need to build a mind-boggling number of solar fields, wind turbines, lithium-ion batteries and long-distance electric lines to break our fossil fuel addiction - and fast. (latimes.com)
  • In less than two years, the French-owned Voltalia company has built the largest solar-powered plant in the Western Balkans, where much of the region remains reliant on fossil fuels including coal. (euronews.com)
  • Decades later, when scientists were developing the idea for a spacecraft to visit the Trojan asteroids - "fossils" of the solar system - they decided to name the mission Lucy . (space.com)
  • If you put an object there early in solar system history, it's been stable forever, so these things really are the fossils of what planets formed from," Lucy principal investigator Hal Levison, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, said during a prelaunch news conference held on Wednesday (Oct. 13). (space.com)
  • Consequently, there is a need for a shift towards more sustainable energy sources such as solar, wind, and water. (lu.se)
  • They were first uncovered in 2020 by Watercare, Auckland's water and wastewater service. (popsci.com)
  • Quite simply, from business trips to leisurely journeys, your Fossil Creek SpringHill Suites is a breath of fresh air. (marriott.com)
  • What are the check-in and check-out times at SpringHill Suites Fort Worth Fossil Creek? (marriott.com)
  • The check-in time at SpringHill Suites Fort Worth Fossil Creek is 3:00 pm and the check-out time is 12:00 pm. (marriott.com)
  • What are the parking options at SpringHill Suites Fort Worth Fossil Creek? (marriott.com)
  • What property amenities are available at SpringHill Suites Fort Worth Fossil Creek? (marriott.com)
  • Relax at the consistently enjoyable Microtel Inn and Suites by Wyndham Ft. Worth North/At Fossil Creek hotel conveniently located off Interstate 820 near Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District, Tarrant County Convention Center, and Fort Worth Zoo. (texasescapes.com)
  • The university said it had recently endorsed a plan to phase out its investments in companies which have a strong involvement in fossil fuels, and will also be more transparent about the carbon footprint of companies under its portfolio. (eco-business.com)
  • and contact with soil, dust, or water contaminated by mining or smelting operations. (cdc.gov)
  • Naphthalene can become weakly attached to soil or pass through soil into underground water. (cdc.gov)
  • 1-Methylnaphthalene and 2-methylnaphthalene are expected to act like naphthalene in air, water, or soil because they have similar chemical and physical properties. (cdc.gov)
  • Fossil fuel extraction and processing cause air, water, and soil pollution, severely impacting local communities. (who.int)
  • Waste from fossil fuel extraction and processing contains carcinogens and other harmful chemicals and toxic metals, which can leach into surrounding water and soil. (who.int)
  • Biotechnological processes can also be used for the remediation of soil and water, provide healthy food or for the development of pharmaceuticals and diagnostic methods of the future. (lu.se)
  • Bioremediation of soil and water is another focus area where research for a cleaner environment involves both degradation of textile dyes as well as removal of non-degradable compounds such as heavy metals and pharmaceutical residues. (lu.se)
  • This means that large coal and coal-seam gas projects expected to have a significant impact on water resources must undergo a more rigorous assessment process. (foe.org.au)
  • Unmentioned here is that due to known abiotic confounds various trace and micro fossils have to undergo a long series of methodical tests to be accepted. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Composite image showing some of the types of fossil-like specimens created by chemical reactions that could be found on Mars. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Mars explorers searching for signs of ancient life could be fooled by fossil-like specimens created by chemical processes, research suggests. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Because signs of life can be so closely mimicked by non-living processes, the origins of any fossil-like specimens found on Mars are likely to be very ambiguous, the team says. (scitechdaily.com)
  • The team examined more than 300,000 fossils of 266 species, and several thousand specimens have been brought to this museum. (popsci.com)
  • We cannot trust these politicians and we cannot trust the processes of the COPs because the fossil fuel industries are tightening their grip around their processes and dictating their outcomes. (kron4.com)
  • and exclusion of the fossil fuel industry from policy processes in which they have clear vested interests. (who.int)
  • Environment-friendly processes for the production of carbon neutral chemicals, materials and energy will gradually replace today's chemical processes based on fossil raw materials. (lu.se)
  • WHO and over 300 other health organizations have signed a letter calling for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty, on account of the health, polluting, and longer-term climate impacts of fossil fuel dependence. (who.int)
  • host Amy Goodman will moderate a panel of international activists at "Fossil Fuels, Forests, and Fires: What can we do about climate change? (boulderweekly.com)
  • Student and staff activists from the Fossil Free La Trobe campaign, who had led the calls for the university to drop its fossil fuel investments, welcomed the move. (eco-business.com)
  • In Quezon City in the Philippines, activists lay in front of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources in protest, and held signs demanding fossil fuels - from coal to natural gas - be phased out. (news10.com)
  • The annual Lancet Countdown report , released Tuesday, found that delaying climate action will lead to a nearly five-fold increase in heat-related deaths by 2050, underscoring that the health of humans around the world is "at the mercy of fossil fuels. (yahoo.com)
  • We're seeing that we're moving in the opposite direction to where we should be going with the expansion of private companies' oil and gas production plans, financing going toward the fossil fuel sector, and all in all a promotion of oil and gas burning that is threatening our survival around the world," Marina Romanello, Lancet Countdown's executive director and lead author, told CNN. (yahoo.com)
  • If the world continues down this fossil fuel-dependent path, Romanello stressed that the cascading consequences could be catastrophic not only for human health but also the economy. (yahoo.com)
  • Rachel Licker, principal climate scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, said that managing the health risks of climate change isn't a new experience for some, but for many, it was a "wakeup call to the new realities" the world will be facing if it continues to burn more fossil fuels. (yahoo.com)
  • In spite of many banks having net zero pledges , research by ShareAction shows that some of the largest world banks are still pumping billions into fossil fuel projects. (bigissue.com)
  • The world still stubbornly runs on fossil fuels. (joannenova.com.au)
  • A new study says that the world is using more fossil fuels than ever as the transition to green energy stalls. (joannenova.com.au)
  • We source our fossils from domestic mines across the country and also include some found around the world. (propertyroom.com)
  • Bring the discovery experience home and find fossils from around the world. (propertyroom.com)
  • Four years later, Johanson and his colleagues told the world that those fossils, and about 300 other pieces found at the site, belonged to a new species of hominin. (space.com)
  • Lucy took the world by storm because the discovery represented not just a new human relative, and a then-rare hominin fossil more than 3 million years old, but also proof that early relatives of humans walked on two feet, even before their brains began to grow. (space.com)
  • ABSTRACT The Eastern Mediterranean Region of the WHO is the poorest region in the world in water resources as a Region and per capita. (who.int)
  • The more we know about the catastrophic implications of climate change, the more fossil fuels are burnt in the world. (lu.se)
  • Grumman/Butkus Associates has released the results of its 2015 Hospital Energy and Water Benchmarking Survey , focusing on healthcare facilities' resource usage trends and costs for calendar year 2014. (csemag.com)
  • Another major objective of this paper is to introduce hot-water power and heat internets to interconnect storage systems, power plants, energy sources, and various water and heat users to efficiently manage the demands and supplies of power, heat, and water. (techscience.com)
  • The experiment was part of a trial run by the government to see if the electricity grid could cope without the kind of constant, reliable energy normally provided by fossil fuels. (motherjones.com)
  • He said fossil fuels produced cheap energy that produced clean air and water. (abc.net.au)
  • In many states , these companies go so far as to back laws to criminalize protests of dirty energy projects such as pipelines, openly weaponizing the police and criminal justice system to protect the profits of the fossil fuel industry and the banks that fund them. (truthout.org)
  • It seems the face mask is off, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Energy Minister Angus Taylor begin executing the Coalition's real fossil-fuel drenched agenda. (foe.org.au)
  • Four publishers had books moved to the approved list, some with the conditions that changes be made to the content regarding topics that included energy, fossil fuels and evolution. (mywabashvalley.com)
  • One of Texas' regulators of the oil and gas industry, Republican Wayne Christian, had urged the board to choose books promoting the importance of fossil fuels for energy promotion. (mywabashvalley.com)
  • Consumer, climate, and health advocates called on the U.S. Department of Energy to promptly finalize water heater efficiency standards. (pirg.org)
  • And since the energy demand is rising, this actually means that we are consuming more fossil fuels than ever. (joannenova.com.au)
  • With the adoption of the steam-engine, fossil energy was first coupled to a process of self-sustaining growth, the new prime mover using coal to impel machines for commodity production. (lu.se)
  • Before steam, up to the second quarter of the nineteenth century, British cotton manufacturers used water as their source of mechanical energy - so why did they shift from the one to the other? (lu.se)
  • Finding alternative ways of producing, storing and transforming energy in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels is necessary to reduce the impact on the climate. (lu.se)
  • The CEFC is currently prohibited from financing fossil fuels projects like coal and gas, a protection that must remain. (foe.org.au)
  • But they say their voices are not being heard, and instead the lobbying of fossil fuel interests are why climate talks have yet to produce an agreement to phase out coal, oil and natural gas, as scientists have repeatedly said must happen to stave off the worst impacts of climate change, like extreme weather events. (khon2.com)
  • However, the water trigger requires that attention be given to the impacts of mining on water. (foe.org.au)
  • Fossil water can potentially dissolve and absorb a number of ions from its host rock. (wikipedia.org)
  • Naphthalene can dissolve in water to a limited degree and may be present in drinking water from wells close to hazardous waste sites and landfills. (cdc.gov)
  • The conferences have committed to fossil fuel-free investment vehicles, asking for increased shareholder engagement in fossil fuel companies and identifying fossil fuel companies with best practices by 2015. (boulderweekly.com)
  • The university will fully phase out its investments in the top 200 fossil fuel companies over the next five years and publish annual reports on its progress. (eco-business.com)
  • John Dewar, La Trobe University's vice-chancellor, said in a statement that "we are committed to divesting from the top 200 publicly-traded fossil fuel companies ranked by the carbon content of their fossil fuel reserves within five years. (eco-business.com)
  • According to the Fossil Free campaign, these organisations are in the process of selling off their shares in the top 200 coal, oil, and gas companies. (eco-business.com)
  • The environment lobby group 350.org claims $3.4 billion of the Future Fund's portfolio is exposed to fossil fuel companies. (abc.net.au)
  • Oil and gas companies, private utilities, and financial institutions that bankroll fossil fuels are all big backers of police foundations , which privately raise money to buy weapons, equipment, and surveillance technology for police departments, bypassing already outsized public police budgets. (truthout.org)
  • Fossil fuel companies, utilities, and the banks that fund them are prominent political players in any local or regional power structure. (truthout.org)
  • This symbiotic relationship between the fossil fuel industry and police often means that the companies that are polluting Black and Brown communities - like Marathon Petroleum in Detroit, Valero in Corpus Christi, or Shell in Louisiana - are the same ones that are aligned with and propping up police forces in these same cities. (truthout.org)
  • Fossil fuel companies support police foundations across the country, especially in major oil producing states such as Texas and Louisiana. (truthout.org)
  • Despite their wealth, fossil fuel companies have long benefitted, at the taxpayer's expense, from a host of special tax benefits in the U.S. tax code that lower the cost of doing business and raise their profits. (nrdc.org)
  • Created more than a century ago, this special tax advantage for the fossil fuel industry allows independent oil and gas companies to immediately deduct all the costs of exploring for and developing an oil well. (nrdc.org)
  • Instead of allowing deductions based on the money invested in a well over its lifetime, this loophole allows fossil fuel companies to deduct 15 percent of their gross income from production. (nrdc.org)
  • In total, the Biden Budget would eliminate more than a dozen such provisions that make it cheaper for oil, gas, and coal companies to develop and produce their destructive products and help ensure that on their way out, the fossil fuel industry will stop foisting the cost of their destruction onto the American public. (nrdc.org)
  • Despite these growing health hazards and the costs of adapting to climate change soaring, authors say governments, banks and companies are still allowing the use of fossil fuels to expand and harm human health. (yahoo.com)
  • As more than a fifth of the U.S. population braces for air temperatures or heat indices of more than 105°F this weekend, one former meteorologist has an idea for how to remind the public who is to blame: name major heatwaves after fossil fuel companies. (winewaterwatch.org)
  • So far this year, Walton has named three U.S. heatwaves after fossil fuel companies, moving down a list he proposed in April, along with Category 1 to 5 ranking system modeled after the Saffir-Simpson scale for hurricanes. (winewaterwatch.org)
  • Other types of fossil water can include subglacial lakes, such as Antarctica's Lake Vostok, and even ancient water on other planets. (wikipedia.org)
  • This watch has a water resistance of up to 330 feet/100 meters, suitable for recreational surfing, swimming, snorkeling, sailing and water sports. (worldofwatches.com)
  • To make an online hotel reservation, simply enter your dates into the search box to see if Microtel Inn & Suites By Wyndham Ft. Worth North/At Fossil has availablity. (texasescapes.com)
  • Donate to NRDC this Giving Tuesday and join others doing their part to defend wildlife, protect our air and water, and safeguard our planet's future. (nrdc.org)
  • If you're content with a basic fitness tracking suite and want to stick to a budget, the Fossil Sport is still a solid choice. (androidcentral.com)
  • All kits vary in size and fossil content. (propertyroom.com)
  • More commonly, fossil water is found in arid or semi-arid regions where the climate was significantly more humid in recent geologic history. (wikipedia.org)
  • SUMMERS: So while one had fins with bones more similar to a human and venturing out onto land, the other was going back to the water, likely because it found advantages for survival in the water again. (wypr.org)
  • Their report found that the UK's six largest pension funds had a typical fossil fuel investment of 4.3 per cent, amounting to £128bn or £1,916 per UK citizen. (bigissue.com)
  • Rocks on Mars may contain numerous types of non-biological deposits that look similar to the kinds of fossils likely to be found if the planet ever supported life, a study says. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Decades ago, Donald Johanson found fossils of an early hominin that would rewrite scientists' understanding of our species. (space.com)
  • Some of the 266 fossil species found during a wastewater plant excavation in New Zealand. (popsci.com)
  • More than 200 fossil species were found in a mound of sand beneath Mangere Wastewater Treatment Plant in Auckland, New Zealand. (popsci.com)
  • According to the team, this treasure trove represents one of the richest and most diverse groups of three-million-year-old animal fossils ever found in New Zealand. (popsci.com)
  • Dr Karin Kemper, Non-Renewable Groundwater Resources: A guidebook socially-sustainable management for water-policy makers, UNESCO 2006 Determining the time since water infiltrated usually involves analyzing isotopic signatures. (wikipedia.org)
  • TNO has developed a method to produce DME very efficiently and cheaply from CO2: a major step from fossil to renewable, and to making carbon circular and making the industry and society sustainable. (tno.nl)
  • When produced from sustainable feedstocks, renewable and recycled carbon DME has a GHG footprint significantly lower than LPG and high-carbon fossil fuels such as heating oil and coal. (tno.nl)
  • Unfortunately, recognition of fossil fuels among the pollutants referenced in the text is conspicuous by its absence. (who.int)
  • These COPs are often wining-and-dining fests for fossil fuel corporations that want to profit off of climate. (khon2.com)
  • A 2013 report published by the International Monetary Fund concluded that global fossil fuel subisides amount to $1.9 trillion annually. (skepticalscience.com)
  • An arguably more realistic estimate of $100 per tonne of CO2 would bring global fossil fuel subsidies to over $4 trillion per year, with $3.2 trillion due to climate change. (skepticalscience.com)
  • Large, prolific aquifers (notably the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System and the Ogallala Aquifer) containing fossil water are of significant socio-economic value. (wikipedia.org)
  • Below, the water exits through a large tube, emerging from the bottom of the dam and into the river more than 50 feet beneath us. (latimes.com)
  • North Richland Hills Family Waterpark or NRH2O offers large selection of water rides and attractions on 17 acres. (ihg.com)
  • When large, complex fossils were discovered in the Ediacaran, researchers naturally expected that many of them would represent early relatives of the same animal groups that had been recognized in the Cambrian. (salon.com)
  • The erosion left a large, fossil valley that crosses the study area from east to west with former effluents coming from the north and the south. (cdc.gov)
  • Cyanobacteria develop the ability to photosynthesise, and in this way release large quantities of oxygen into the water and air. (lu.se)
  • Taken at face-value, biofuels present a renewable alternative to fossil fuels. (azocleantech.com)
  • Kolessar provided examples across the Agency's portfolio, including fossil free steel (SSAB), battery production (Northvolt), biofuels (RenFuel), electrification of the transportation system, and smart grids. (lu.se)
  • poor ment of green belts and recreational areas, people are not protected against disease and is practised to varying degrees to alleviate lack the resources and motivation to protect water shortages. (who.int)
  • The letters call on Congress to phase out fossil fuels, the greatest driver of the climate emergency and more frequent extreme heat. (freepress.net)
  • A UN-backed campaign designed to boost global climate action has made explicit the requirement for members to phase out all unabated fossil fuels among other measures. (theiet.org)
  • The rapid and just phase out of fossil fuels is a public health imperative. (who.int)
  • Some Republicans on the 15-member board this week waved off current textbook options as too negative toward fossil fuels and failing to include alternatives to evolution. (mywabashvalley.com)
  • As a result, the fossils include a number of subtropical species, whose relatives today live in the warmer waters around the Kermadec and Norfolk islands. (popsci.com)
  • These include minimizing unaccounted-for water (the difference between the quantity of water supplied to a city's network and the metered quantity of water used by the customers), adopting a demand approach, wastewater reclamation and reuse and water conservation through low-flow toilets, low-flow shower heads and faucet flow restrictors. (who.int)
  • Researchers believe they may have brought organic material, water or possibly even single-cell organisms to Earth, but nobody knows for sure. (lu.se)
  • This thesis returns to a crucial moment in the emergence of the fossil economy: the rise of steam-power. (lu.se)
  • UNESCO defines fossil groundwater as water that infiltrated usually millennia ago and often under climatic conditions different from the present, and that has been stored underground since that time. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some fossil groundwater is associated with the melting of ice in the time since the last glacial maximum. (wikipedia.org)
  • At the time the population barely reached six million, nor were they aware of the enormous volume of light oil and fossil water. (counterpunch.org)
  • This fossil dig kit will take your fossil lover through time as they dig, find, and clean up fossils. (propertyroom.com)
  • Perhaps Mother Nature is trying to tell us go leave fossil fuels in the ground, otherwise heatwaves like Amoco or worse with more smoke choking wildfires will be an end result," Walton wrote at the time. (winewaterwatch.org)
  • It is produced any time a fossil fuel is burned. (cdc.gov)
  • At the same time, water demand in the Region is growing fast and water availability is falling to crisis levels [1]. (who.int)
  • both can be smelled in air and in water at very low concentrations. (cdc.gov)
  • The work of the WHO Regional Office to assist countries face the challenges of water scarcity and wastewater reuse are described. (who.int)
  • In addition to ending unfair advantages that benefit the fossil fuel industry and bilk taxpayers, the proposal will accelerate the country's move away from dirty oil, gas, and coal. (nrdc.org)
  • The link between burning fossil fuels and climate change has been proven, and universities which claim to be "future-focused organisations" cannot directly fund this destructive industry, she noted. (eco-business.com)
  • Struggles for racial and environmental justice across the U.S. have a common enemy: the fossil fuel industry. (truthout.org)
  • As movements for racial and environmental justice escalate across the US, these struggles - which, as groups like the National Black Environmental Justice Network point out , must be seen as one - have a common foe: the fossil fuel industry. (truthout.org)
  • President Biden has delivered a budget to Congress that would end a raft of special tax giveaways to the fossil fuel industry. (nrdc.org)
  • In some cases, some form of treatment is required to make these waters suitable for human use. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are no fossil fuels being burned, no coal or oil or natural gas heating the planet and filling the air with pollution. (latimes.com)
  • Fossil fuel pollution is dirty and dangerous, threatening our health, the climate and our future. (pirg.org)
  • Fossil fuels are a major driver of outdoor air pollution, which causes approximately 3.6 million deaths annually. (who.int)
  • Fossil water or paleowater is an ancient body of water that has been contained in some undisturbed space, typically groundwater in an aquifer, for millennia. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the cases of many aquifers, research is lacking or disputed as to the age of the water and the behavior of the water inside the aquifer. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the relatively rare cases of confined aquifers, an impermeable geologic layer (e.g. clay or calcrete) encloses an aquifer, isolating the water within, sometimes for millennia. (wikipedia.org)
  • The aquifer supplies water for the many people who live above it and for widespread agricultural uses. (wikipedia.org)
  • The water in the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System is of high importance to the people living above it, and has been for millennia. (wikipedia.org)
  • The challenge they had to overcome was that halide perovskites are extremely unstable in water and coatings used to insulate the semiconductors ended up either disrupting their function or damaging them. (innovationtoronto.com)
  • For instance, some participants are using more than 200,000 Btu/sq ft in fossil fuel annually, compared with a general mid range of facilities (about 150,000 Btu/sq ft/year) and those that used least (100,000 Btu/sq ft/year). (csemag.com)
  • By removing the water trigger, Morrison is putting the country's precious water -- and the human right to access it -- at risk from polluting fossil fuel industries. (foe.org.au)
  • The indirect health health effects of environmental conditions and changes, such as the implications of a Water access and quality limited episode of food contamination on Water demand in the Region is growing a country's food exports, may be more sig- fast and water availability is decreasing to nificant than their direct health effects. (who.int)
  • The lab of chemical and biomolecular engineer Aditya Mohite built the integrated photoreactor using an anticorrosion barrier that insulates the semiconductor from water without impeding the transfer of electrons. (innovationtoronto.com)
  • Dr. Sean McMahon, Chancellor's Fellow in Astrobiology at the University of Edinburgh's School of Physic and Astronomy, said: "At some stage a Mars rover will almost certainly find something that looks a lot like a fossil, so being able to confidently distinguish these from structures and substances made by chemical reactions is vital. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Chemical reactions can make some fossil like things. (scitechdaily.com)
  • Odor as an aid to chemical safety: Odor thresholds compared with threshold limit values and volatilities for 214 industrial chemicals in air and water dilution. (cdc.gov)
  • Telling these false fossils apart from what could be evidence of ancient life on the surface of Mars - which was temporarily habitable four billion years ago - is key to the success of current and future missions, researchers say. (scitechdaily.com)
  • As United Nations leaders, scientists and others called for an eventual elimination of coal, oil and natural gas, various delegations at the conference were connected to those fossil fuel industries. (khon2.com)
  • Close to 400 people connected in some way or another to fossil fuel industries attended last year's United Nations climate talks in Egypt, a grouping that was larger than all but two of the national delegations sent by countries, according to a data analysis of the more than 24,000 participants by The Associated Press. (khon2.com)
  • Libya and Egypt are currently planning development projects to withdraw significant amounts of the aquifer's fossil water for use. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many of these same people, and possibly even more connected to fossil fuels, will likely be at this year's official climate talks, known as Conference of Parties or COP, being hosted by the United Arab Emirates, a major oil producing country. (khon2.com)