• Fossil Fuels: Modern Asbestos? (aol.com)
  • It is yet another riff in the crescendo of drum beats hearkening the eventual demise of conventional fossil fuels. (aol.com)
  • Greenpeace, in its ' Point of No Return ' report, explained that 'in 2020, the emissions from the 14 projects showcased in this report -- if they were all to go ahead -- would raise global CO2 emissions from fossil fuels by 20% and keep the world on a path toward 5°C to 6°C of warming. (aol.com)
  • Ultimately, the goal is for the transport sector to forgo fossil fuels altogether. (fraunhofer.de)
  • Combustion of these fuels produces low levels of pollution and, on a well-to-wheel comparison with fossil fuels, reduces greenhouse-gas emissions by as much as 90 percent. (fraunhofer.de)
  • One might have thought that the increasing risk of fossil fuels becoming unextractable in the future would have discouraged such support, but this would be to ignore the promise of huge profits that can be made before the transition kicks in. (theecologist.org)
  • Over the years, the abject failure of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) even to mention fossil fuels in its publications, not even in its 2018 Summary for Policymakers on Global Warming of 1.5 ºC , and the continuing dominance of fossil fuel-linked companies in the Conferences of Parties (the main international decision-making body on climate change) bear testimony to fossil capital's continuing hegemony. (theecologist.org)
  • Unfortunately, fossil fuels produce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) when burnt-and CO 2 is the main driver of climate change. (ucsusa.org)
  • Their concerns echoed the latest science of the time, which showed an increasing link between fossil fuels and global warming. (ucsusa.org)
  • We are slowly starting to see delegitimization happen with fossil fuels. (commondreams.org)
  • The climate crisis is increasingly dire, and it is past time for a global reckoning on fossil fuels. (nrdc.org)
  • OXFORD - The head of a global philanthropic foundation says that the world turning away from fossil fuels is a critical moment in human history, akin to the abolition of slavery. (truthdig.com)
  • Ellen Dorsey, executive director of the US-based Wallace Global Fund , told a packed conference in Oxford, UK, this week: "We are right in the middle of a transition - not to try to curb the burning of the fuels, but to end the fossil fuel industry altogether. (truthdig.com)
  • The conference, organised by the Divest Invest movement , was held to assess progress in convincing the financial sector that it will lose its money if it continues to invest in fossil fuels. (truthdig.com)
  • The movement involves 500 organizations - with a combined wealth of more than $3.4 trillion - that have already pledged to divest from fossil fuels and invest in climate solutions. (truthdig.com)
  • We have gained money from not investing in fossil fuels. (truthdig.com)
  • The conference was told that charities, trusts and banks that invested in renewables were getting a much higher return on their money than if they kept it in fossil fuels companies, so removing it was not an act of altruism but a sound business decision. (truthdig.com)
  • She said that while fossil fuel company executives had "changed their rhetoric" since the UN climate conference in Paris last December and accepted that climate change was a problem, their actions remained the same - carrying on business as usual, trying to expand the use of fossil fuels, and pushing the planet towards heating up by 3°C to 4°C. (truthdig.com)
  • The conference discussed the main barriers to getting backers and investment funds to shift up to $100 trillion out of fossil fuels. (truthdig.com)
  • Renewable power has a superior risk/return profile over fossil fuels both in periods of volatility and under normal conditions. (forbes.com)
  • The report just published by the Centre for Climate Finance at Imperial College Business School and the International Energy Agency says that renewable power generated significantly higher total returns over the last ten years, at 422.7% against 59% for fossil fuels or over 7 times the return. (forbes.com)
  • Over five years the performance is lower but still more than 3 times higher than fossil fuels. (forbes.com)
  • Dr Charles Donovan, Executive Director of the Centre for Climate Finance & Investment at Imperial College Business School, said: "Our research demonstrates that all over the world renewable power has outperformed fossil fuels. (forbes.com)
  • King's College London has fully divested from all fossil fuels almost two years ahead of schedule. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • We are delighted to announce that as of the start of 2021, King's has fully divested from all fossil fuels. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Since making a commitment to our full divestment target in 2017, we have steadily reduced our exposure to fossil fuels from 7.3 per cent in 2017 to zero in 2021. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • I am delighted to announce that King's has fully divested from fossil fuels, two years in advance of our original target. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • The great news that King's has fully divested from all fossil fuels makes me both proud to be part of our outstanding community at King's and excited about what we will achieve next. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • SEATTLE (AP) - Environmentalists teamed with Native Americans, ranchers and even windsurfers to block nearly every effort over the past decade to export fossil fuels from the West Coast. (opb.org)
  • So yes, subsidizing fossil fuels may make your constituents happy in the short run, but it is wasteful and polluting in the long run. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Now is the perfect time to scale back subsidies on fossil fuels. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Actually, Venezuela is not alone in subsidizing fossil fuels - countries around the world spend nearly $500 billion on fossil fuel subsidies each year, according to the International Energy Agency. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Omar El Akkad discusses his debut novel American War , suicide terrorism, fossil fuels, and blankets. (therumpus.net)
  • The protesters were calling on their respective universities to divest from fossil fuels, according to The New York Times. (insider.com)
  • They could eventually replace fossil fuels. (insider.com)
  • According to the IEA, fossil fuels will still account for 54% of global electricity production in 2040 - with global electricity demand set to rise by 80% in that time, this would demand a combined investment of $A19.7 trillion to meet capacity. (insider.com)
  • In Anhui, China, two giant solar farms - one of which will go online in May - are part of the global shift away from energy generated from fossil fuels. (insider.com)
  • Introducing the Eco-Friendly Just Stop Oil hoodie, the perfect way to show your support for the movement against oil and other fossil fuels. (earthtimes.org)
  • Over the past year, the European Union was the top buyer of Russia's fossil fuels, namely coal, oil and gas, according to the latest estimates by the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA). (rt.com)
  • Since the launch of its military operation in Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has earned over $315 billion from international sales of its fossil fuels, with $149 billion, about half of the total, coming from EU member states. (rt.com)
  • The movement demanding that public interest institutions divest their holdings from fossil fuels is on a serious roll. (commondreams.org)
  • We believe that educational and religious institutions, city and state governments, and other institutions that serve the public good should divest from fossil fuels. (commondreams.org)
  • It has a $118 million endowment and, according to its accounting team, for direct investments 'we specifically screen out extractive industries, fossil fuels, and other areas of the energy sector. (commondreams.org)
  • The long-term alternatives to fossil energy that have been discussed since the early 1970s are advanced energy efficient vehicles in combination with either biofuels in various forms or renewable electricity or hydrogen as fuels. (lu.se)
  • The health sector and fiscal policies of fossil fuels: an essential alignment for the health and climate change agenda. (bvsalud.org)
  • Fossil fuels, such as petroleum and coal, naturally contain naphthalene. (cdc.gov)
  • New research article has found that the renewables and fossil fuels markets have both been influenced by major political effects - but in different ways. (lu.se)
  • Dec. 7, 2023 Researchers re-examined a plant fossil found decades ago in Colombia and realized that it wasn't a plant at all: it's a fossilized baby turtle. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Dec. 4, 2023 Researchers have found the earliest-known fossil mosquito in Lower Cretaceous amber from Lebanon. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Through mining activities, including fossil fuel extraction as well as synthesis of fertilizers and pesticides, sulfur is brought into air, land, and water systems. (eurekalert.org)
  • Many of these fossils are used as index fossils to date sedimentary rocks. (creation.com)
  • Join paleontologists, educators, and students in fossil-related events and activities across the country in parks, classrooms, and online during National Fossil Day. (nps.gov)
  • Most vertebrate paleontologists today find fossils the same way their predecessors did in the nineteenth century. (nasa.gov)
  • The few paleontologists who have been willing to take advantage of the technology have benefited because, even though Landsat can't see fossils, it can see the kinds of rocks where they are likely to reside. (nasa.gov)
  • DURHAM, N.C. -- Paleontologists at the Duke Lemur Center have assembled a new picture of a 35-million-year-old fossil mammal -- and they even have added a hint of sound. (eurekalert.org)
  • Paleontologists have known of the internal mandibular fenestra among fossil hyraxes since early last century, but its significance was poorly understood," Simons said. (eurekalert.org)
  • Since the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to two degrees was signed in 2016, fossil fuel companies have spent billions of dollars on trying to undermine it ( Influence Map , 2019). (theecologist.org)
  • We formed the Socially Responsible Investment Review Committee following the Fossil Free KCL campaign in 2016 and made a commitment to partial divestment and full divestment the following year. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • 7 The student knows that scientific dating methods of fossils and rock sequences are used to construct a chronology of Earth's history expressed in the geologic time scale. (carleton.edu)
  • inosaur fossils found at least 21 NPS areas encompasses everything from some of the earliest to the last known dinosaurs of North America. (nps.gov)
  • Struthiomimus, (genus Struthiomimus), ostrichlike dinosaurs found as fossils from the Late Cretaceous Period (99. (britannica.com)
  • The specimen's teeth resemble those of females in several fossil-ape lineages, they contend. (sciencenews.org)
  • So fossil capital and agri-businesses are largely responsible for causing climate change. (theecologist.org)
  • Leaked documents show that the world's largest fossil fuel companies have deliberately deceived the public for nearly 30 years about the realities and risks of climate change. (ucsusa.org)
  • More than 50 years ago , scientists at major fossil fuel companies considered how climate change should factor into decisions about new fossil fuel extraction. (ucsusa.org)
  • Even today, industry trade groups and associations spread disinformation on climate change, while corporate lobbyists influence politicians and regulators-all with the financial backing and support of major fossil fuel companies. (ucsusa.org)
  • Divestment is the start of a process of reducing the tremendous influence of the fossil fuel industry on our political system and thereby making it possible to win government action on climate change. (commondreams.org)
  • First, is to raise public awareness of climate change and the responsibility of fossil companies. (commondreams.org)
  • Second, is to stigmatize or delegitimize the fossil fuel industry by calling them out as bad actors, weakening them politically, and thereby helping win government action on climate change. (commondreams.org)
  • Glacier melt due to climate change led researchers to 23 ithcyosaur fossils in Patagonia, including a 4 meter long fossil of a pregnant female. (vice.com)
  • The former vice president was confronted at CNN's climate change town hall on Wednesday night over his ties to a former fossil fuel executive. (insider.com)
  • The need to drastically reduce fossil energy due to climate change is currently the most pressing driver for the search for alternatives with an internal EU target to completely phase out fossil energy in the transport sector by 2050. (lu.se)
  • Molecular clocks estimate that diatom microalgae, one of Earth's foremost primary producers, originated near the Triassic-Jurassic boundary (200 Ma), which is close in age to the earliest, generally accepted diatom fossils of the genus Pyxidicula. (lu.se)
  • People in the fossil fuel industry claim that they are the only ones who can do this, she said, but renewables can do it faster and must do it in the next 15 years. (truthdig.com)
  • Providing energy for the overall economy ( oil and gas extraction) takes many thousands of workers involved in energy supply from fossil fuel sources and renewables. (cdc.gov)
  • A weak watch market - for both traditional styles and smartwatches - is putting the squeeze on Fossil Group Inc. (yahoo.com)
  • Seeming to acknowledge the success of Apple Watch and the rise of smartwatches in general, Fossil CEO Kosta Kartsotis acknowledged the negative impact of a rapidly changing watch market on the company's results. (foxbusiness.com)
  • A popular app is Fossil Smartwatches , which is highly ranked in several countries and, with over 1 million installs, is one of the more popular apps in the Android ecosystem. (appbrain.com)
  • Instead of acknowledging the harmful effects of their products and committing to swift and deep reductions in global warming emissions, many of the world's largest fossil fuel companies have knowingly deceived the public about the climate science and policy-and they continue to do so today. (ucsusa.org)
  • In this event, teams identify and classify fossils and demonstrate their knowledge of ancient life. (soinc.org)
  • Have the students classify the fossils by type (animal, plant) or by age, material, or any other classification. (astate.edu)
  • Figuring out which sites to visit is a matter of reading the scientific literature to see where good fossils have been found and reading the geology to discern where fossils might be buried. (nasa.gov)
  • Although fossils can be found in almost any type of landscape, badlands -which have scarce vegetation but plenty of bare rock-are among the most fruitful sites. (nasa.gov)
  • Most fossils have been found near the surface where degradation is more likely, he explains. (newscientist.com)
  • Another problem with using published descriptions and stratigraphic data is that fossils are often placed in different taxa, even in different superfamilies, if they are found at different levels, even though they might be placed in the same genus or species if found together. (creation.com)
  • Many similar species once swam around the world, though the remnants can now only be found in the fossil record, and in their present day freshwater descendants. (popsci.com)
  • If this speculation is correct, Thyrohyrax and its fossil relatives would be the only mammals found so far to use such a skeletal structure for producing sound, the researchers said. (eurekalert.org)
  • Also, relatively few Thyrohyrax fossils had been found for study. (eurekalert.org)
  • At about 2 inches (5 cm) long, the specimen is a "monstrously big ant," said Bruce Archibald, a paleoentomologist at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia who reported the discovery today (May 3) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Though fossils of loose giant ant wings have been found before in the United States, this is the first known full-body specimen. (livescience.com)
  • Likewise, ancient giant ant fossils have been found in Europe in areas that were tropical during the early part of the Eocene, an epoch that lasted from 56 million to 34 million years ago, a time when the continents were closer together and the sea level was low: "You could have walked from Vancouver to London across dry land," Archibald said. (livescience.com)
  • In trying to figure out where each dollar of spending could do the most good, we've found that doing away with fossil fuel subsidies would be one of the most beneficial actions developing countries could take. (bostonglobe.com)
  • Steneosaurus, (genus Steneosaurus), extinct crocodiles that inhabited shallow seas and whose fossils are found. (britannica.com)
  • Streptelasma, extinct genus of corals, existing as single animals rather than colonial forms and found as fossils. (britannica.com)
  • Stringocephalus, extinct genus of large brachiopods, or lamp shells, found as fossils in Devonian marine rocks. (britannica.com)
  • Stromatoporida, extinct order of corals found as fossils in marine rocks of Cambrian to Cretaceous age (542 million. (britannica.com)
  • Stropheodonta, genus of small, extinct brachiopods (lamp shells) found as fossils in Devonian marine rocks (those. (britannica.com)
  • Strophomena, genus of extinct brachiopods (lamp shells) found as fossils in Middle and Upper Ordovician marine. (britannica.com)
  • Tabulata, major division of extinct coral animals found as fossils in Ordovician to Jurassic marine rocks (488. (britannica.com)
  • Tapinocephalus, extinct genus of therapsids, relatives of mammals, found as fossils in Permian rocks of South Africa. (britannica.com)
  • Tetractinella, genus of extinct brachiopods (lamp shells) found as fossils in Triassic marine rocks (the Triassic. (britannica.com)
  • Thrinaxodon, extinct genus of cynodont, a close mammal relative, found as fossils in continental deposits formed. (britannica.com)
  • After applying stringent safeguards and evaluation criteria, however, the fossils found at each of the three sites were rejected as new diatom records. (lu.se)
  • Unlike the more than 30 species of oceanic dolphins, the South Asian River Dolphin is unique, or "tremendously bizarre" as Smithsonian marine mammal fossil curator Nicholas Pyenson puts it. (popsci.com)
  • When a curator showed him the fossil, Archibald said, he knew he was looking at something exciting. (livescience.com)
  • The search for profit is what drives fossil-fuel companies onward. (theecologist.org)
  • For several decades, Simons visited the site in search of early ape and monkey fossils, as part of his main research focus on the evolution of primates leading up to humans. (eurekalert.org)
  • Scientists present more evidence for the oldest known fossils on Earth, which could bolster the search for alien life. (vice.com)
  • The search for alternatives to fossil energy started seriously in the 1970s in the wake of the first oil embargo. (lu.se)
  • Analyze and interpret data from fossils to provide evidence of the organisms and the environments in which they lived long ago. (astate.edu)
  • Using the table below, you can analyze Fossil Group, Inc.'s Android apps and games. (appbrain.com)
  • Crucially, they looked beyond policy measures designed to cut emissions, such as carbon trading and carbon taxes, and instead followed the fossil fuel shipments that impact communities - often marginalized communities - en route to warming the global climate. (opb.org)
  • Chimpanzee populations today are confined to wooded West and central Africa, whereas most hominin fossil sites occur in the semi-arid East African Rift Valley. (nature.com)
  • We really do not know the three-dimensional distribution of fossils, 4 and surprises occur almost every week, some of which I have been reporting. (creation.com)
  • Recognizing this unfair advantage, the U.S. Department of Treasury has said that these tax preferences 'distort markets by encouraging more investment in the fossil fuel sector than would occur under a more-neutral tax system. (nrdc.org)
  • Tetragraptus, genus of extinct graptolites (colonial animals related to the chordates) that occur as fossils in. (britannica.com)
  • Theodossia, genus of extinct brachiopods (lamp shells) the fossils of which are restricted to Early Devonian marine. (britannica.com)
  • Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies is one of the most beneficial steps a government can take. (bostonglobe.com)
  • By painstakingly measuring hundreds of specimens of a fossil mammal called Thyrohyrax, recovered from the famous fossil beds of Egypt's Fayum Province, the researchers determined that males of this now-extinct species -- and only males -- had oversized, swollen lower jaws shaped much like a banana. (eurekalert.org)
  • According to the Carbon Tracker Initiative in Britain (on whose impeccable research the divestment movement is based), the fossil fuel sector holds five times more carbon in its reserves than can be burned while still leaving us a good shot of limiting warming to 2 degrees Celsius. (commondreams.org)
  • They led the climate movement down various dead ends: carbon trading, carbon offsets, natural gas as a 'bridge fuel'--what these policies all held in common is that they created the illusion of progress while allowing the fossil fuel companies to keep mining, drilling and fracking with abandon. (commondreams.org)
  • No large oil company has committed to cut oil and gas output before 2030 (Carbon Tracker Initiative, 2020), and capital expenditure on energy by fossil-fuel companies remains at 99.2 per cent of the total, with only 0.8 per cent on renewable energy and carbon capture and storage (IEA, 2020). (theecologist.org)
  • The report, Clean Energy Investing: Global Comparison of Investment Returns said that listed renewable power portfolios have outperformed listed fossil fuel portfolios in all markets and that the cost of capital remains lower for renewable energy companies than fossil fuel companies. (forbes.com)
  • The Q Curiosity component of the app alerts users that it's time to break free from their routines and try something different in their communities, work or activities, according to Fossil. (eweek.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)
  • After stumbling upon his best fossil site by accident, Anemone decided it was time to improve his odds of success. (nasa.gov)
  • So, when considering all the above problems, these nice, 'precise' charts of microfossil changes with time, used to date rocks and other fossils, are way beyond the state of the art. (creation.com)
  • Identify evidence from patterns in rock formations and fossils in rock layers to support an explanation for changes in a landscape over time. (astate.edu)
  • This timeline shows the activity of Fossil Group, Inc. over time. (appbrain.com)
  • Excluding the Pyxidicula fossils widens the gap between the estimated time of origin and the oldest abundant fossil diatom record to 75 million years. (lu.se)
  • It is produced any time a fossil fuel is burned. (cdc.gov)
  • National Fossil Day is an annual celebration held to highlight the scientific and educational value of paleontology and the importance of preserving fossils for future generations. (nps.gov)
  • Back in London, the relationship between old and new species, as shown in fossils, would become one of the main lines of evidence leading to Darwin's theory of evolution. (amnh.org)
  • Almost 50 million years ago, ants the size of hummingbirds roamed what is now Wyoming, a new fossil discovery reveals. (livescience.com)
  • The fossil ant is from a well-known fossil site in Wyoming called the Green River Formation, but it had been sitting in a drawer at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Archibald said. (livescience.com)
  • The Motley Fool recommends Fossil Group, Inc. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy . (foxbusiness.com)
  • NWF and other critics of the energy industry say the perpetual accident rates highlight the need for everything from carbon caps to an end to fossil fuel subsidies. (politico.com)
  • Mark Campanale, founder and director of the Carbon Tracker Initiative , which has demonstrated that most fossil fuel reserves must be left in the ground if the planet is to escape dangerous overheating, said that most of the "assets" of fossil fuel companies could not be extracted at a profit unless the oil price rose above $50 to $60 dollars a barrel. (truthdig.com)
  • For example, we have invested £31.5 million (12.8 per cent of our total investments) into Northern Trust's World Green Transition Index Fund, which not only screens out fossil fuel producers and the worst 10 per cent of companies by carbon emissions intensity, but also has a positive 'tilt' towards companies that generate 'green' revenue, such as energy efficiency and alternative energy. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Against the odds, and even their own expectations, activists have fended off more than 20 proposals to use West Coast ports to expand the global fossil fuel trade - the carbon equivalent of five Keystone XL pipelines, according to the Seattle-based Sightline Institute. (opb.org)
  • Tiago Simões, lead author and PhD student from the University of Alberta in Canada, said: "The specimen is 75 million years older than what we thought were the oldest fossil lizards in the entire world and provides valuable information for understanding the evolution of both living and extinct squamates. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Evolution's Surprise: Fossil find uproots our early ancestors ), has more in common with fossil and modern apes than with fossil ancestors of humans, the researchers argue in the Oct. 10 Nature . (sciencenews.org)
  • The researchers predict that increasing trends will continue in many croplands around the world, including places like China and India that are still working to regulate fossil fuel emissions. (eurekalert.org)
  • The Indus River Dolphin, with the Ganges River Dolphin, are the two sub-species of South Asian River Dolphins, which are considered modern-day relatives of the new fossil find, Arktocara yakataga . (popsci.com)
  • The pursuit of profits under capitalism means the fossil fuel industry continues to drive us to the edge of climate catastrophe. (theecologist.org)
  • The fossil fuel industry is looking forward to 2011. (politico.com)
  • Nationwide over 3,700 politicians have signed a pledge not to take campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry, including most notably President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. (commondreams.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 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • We believe that the fossil fuel industry is responsible for the worsening climate impacts you see in the news. (350.org)
  • These fossils, from the Kapthurin Formation, Kenya, show that representatives of Pan were present in the East African Rift Valley during the Middle Pleistocene, where they were contemporary with an extinct species of Homo . (nature.com)
  • Many of the so-called species in the fossil record were probably not separate biological species. (creation.com)
  • Fossil species can only be defined on the characteristics of the preserved remains. (creation.com)
  • Fossils raised many questions about the origin of species-and not just for Darwin. (amnh.org)
  • Fossils clearly showed that in past ages, the world had been inhabited by different species from those existing today. (amnh.org)
  • Fossils also revealed another intriguing pattern: New species tended to appear where similar species had previously lived. (amnh.org)
  • We conclude that the Lower Jurassic Pyxidicula fossils were most likely calcareous nannofossils, whereas the Middle Jurassic Pyxidicula species has been reassigned to the Lower Cretaceous and is likely a testate amoeba, not a diatom. (lu.se)
  • The fossil, along with data from both living and extinct reptiles -- which involved anatomical data drawn from CT scans and DNA -- suggests the origin of squamates is even older, taking place in the late Permian period, more than 250 million years ago. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Each of the trails offer something different, but all offer a chance to explore the scenery and geology of Fossil Butte. (nps.gov)
  • The protein discovery is exciting, but palaeontologists will have to work harder to uncover fossils that preserve it better, says Jack Horner of Montana State University in the US, who was involved in the analysis. (newscientist.com)
  • Some fossils preserve bits of organs, including stingers, genitalia and stomachs, Wappler told LiveScience. (livescience.com)
  • Abundant and low cost fossil energy has powered the transport system ever since motorization at the beginning of the 1900s. (lu.se)
  • Fossil-fuel companies are primarily responsible for the extraction and burning of coal, oil and gas - with consumer demand a secondary consideration. (theecologist.org)
  • Major fossil fuel companies routinely make billion-dollar profits, extracting and distributing oil, gas, and coal. (ucsusa.org)
  • The biggest battle for the movement is to change the minds of the investment bankers who are continuing to put their money into coal-powered plants, mines and other fossil fuel developments. (truthdig.com)
  • Acid rain gained attention in the 1960s and 1970s when scientists linked degradation of forest and aquatic ecosystems across the northeastern US and Europe to fossil fuel emissions from industrial centers often hundreds of kilometers away. (eurekalert.org)
  • Much less is known about the Denisovans because scientists have uncovered fewer fossils of these ancient people. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Scientists have sequenced Neanderthal and Denisovan genomes from fossils discovered in Europe and Asia. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The other band, the Q Dreamer, is a fitness tracker that looks more like a stylish bracelet and offers both a leather band for work and a silicone band for physical activities, according to Fossil. (eweek.com)
  • We couldn't find any results for fossil slider bracelet. (zappos.com)
  • Of course, government action promoting clean energy and restricting fossil fuel projects, and possibly reduced bank financing will ultimately greatly harm fossil fuel companies, but this will come about due to the political effects of divestment, rather than direct financial impacts. (commondreams.org)
  • Tasks will be related to interpretation of past environments and ecosystems, adaptations, evolutionary relationships, and the use of fossils in dating and correlating rock units. (soinc.org)
  • Tammy Tosk reported on multiple manipulations of foraminifera, a common index fossil for evolutionary dating. (creation.com)
  • Moreover, fossil fuel subsidies make it cheaper to use energy - which means more air pollution, more CO2, and more cars congesting the streets. (bostonglobe.com)
  • There has been a dramatic increase in funding for alternative energy research during the 1970s and thereafter combined with several policy initiatives to financially support alternatives during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000, still the use of fossil energy for transport has continued to grow and represent more than 95% of global energy use in the transport sector. (lu.se)
  • In spite of the great advances, the scale and complexity of replacing fossil energy in the transport system is huge. (lu.se)
  • The project studies initiatives within Fossil-Free Sweden with an action-oriented and interdisciplinary approach that brings together three research fields: socio-technical transitions, sustainable regional development, and energy system studies focusing on modelling. (lu.se)
  • In addition, according to a statement from Imperial, "Annualised volatility was lower than fossil fuel portfolios in the Global and Advanced economies and higher than the fossil fuel portfolios in China and Emerging Markets & Developing Economies. (forbes.com)
  • If you go to Fossil Falls, located just off U. S. Highway 395 on the east side of the southern end of California's Sierra Nevada, don't expect to find either fossils or falls. (desertusa.com)
  • What you will find, rather, is a spectacular lava flow sculpted by rushing water and wind late in the Ice Ages a "fossil" of nature's handiwork. (desertusa.com)
  • You'll still find obsidian flakes, products of the chipping, around the Fossil Falls area. (desertusa.com)
  • We have gathered all apps together and in the information boxes to the right you can find the total number of apps, downloads, ratings of Fossil Group, Inc. (appbrain.com)
  • Internal ISDN cards (that did not use serial ports at all) often came with FOSSIL drivers to make them work with software that was originally intended for modem operation only. (wikipedia.org)
  • We cannot wait for economic pressure to make new fossil fuel projects unprofitable-governments can stop permitting new projects now . (commondreams.org)
  • Have the students make their own fossils. (astate.edu)
  • Make fossil rubbings. (astate.edu)
  • Make a Fossil Sandwich. (astate.edu)
  • Fossil fuel companies, on the other hand, are doing everything in their power to make the catastrophic inevitable. (commondreams.org)
  • Some of these groups own a few fossil fuel stocks, but only so that they can make trouble at shareholder meetings. (commondreams.org)
  • 6.1 Fossils are the preserved evidence of ancient life. (carleton.edu)
  • The 240-million-year-old fossil, Megachirella wachtleri , is the most ancient ancestor of all modern lizards and snakes, known as squamates, the new study, published today in the journal Nature , shows. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Co-author, Dr Michael Caldwell, also from the University of Alberta, added: "Fossils are our only accurate window into the ancient past. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The site, where young prehistoric megasharks ate their fill to grow large, is the first ancient shark nursery in the U.S. to be confirmed with fossils. (vice.com)
  • If you look north from Fossil Falls toward Red Hill, you can see remnants of one of the ancient lakes in the form of white sands and silts on the Red Hill Playa. (desertusa.com)
  • The article concludes that while the impacts of the Paris Agreement and the Biden election on the stock prices of fossil fuel companies are significant, they are not of a magnitude that should instigate concerns about a total collapse of financial systems due to stranded assets. (lu.se)
  • Also part of the Fossil Q line is a new Q Activity mobile app for iOS and Android that connects to the devices and gives users a wide range of activity, fitness and other information at a glance on their smartphones. (eweek.com)
  • The company's smartwatch, called Q Founder, was the result of a collaboration between Fossil, Intel and Google, and is powered by Google's Android Wear operating system, according to Fossil. (eweek.com)
  • The Fossil Q product line is compatible with Android 4.3 and higher and iPhone 5 and above (running iOS 8.2 and higher). (eweek.com)
  • Fossil Group, Inc. is an Android developer that has been active since 2013. (appbrain.com)
  • These statistics are very useful for you to answer questions about how many users Fossil Group, Inc. has, what their revenue and income might be, and in general, how successful an Android developer they are. (appbrain.com)
  • The timeline below shows when Fossil Group, Inc. developed and launched a new Android app or game, and every update to their apps. (appbrain.com)
  • The standards document that defines the FOSSIL protocol is maintained by the Fidonet Technical Standards Committee. (wikipedia.org)
  • House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) blamed many of this year's fossil-fuel-related accidents on the George W. Bush administration's "failure to invest in infrastructure and worker safety, coupled with a regulatory regime that put those who were being regulated in charge of their own oversight. (politico.com)
  • Across the world, fossil fuel companies face a wave of new lawsuits for their role in the climate crisis. (ucsusa.org)