Sentences with phrase «story about the fossil»

# 10: the Globe and Mail (a major Canadian paper) has been running a whole series of rah - rah stories about fossil fuels in the past few weeks.

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Of course, we may be wrong to think that we truly remembered those long - lost almost - humans: Perhaps instead they were only speculative imaginings to explain old bones and arrowheads, fossils and mysterious cave paintings — just as our own stories about Neanderthals are also, mostly, fantasies.

«Fossils have richer stories to tell — about the lub - dub of dinosaur life — than we have been willing to listen to,» says Robert T. Bakker, curator of paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.

The story describes the fossil, named Darwinius masillae, and a documentary about it by David Attenborough for the BBC and The History Channel.

The fossils are not yet dated, leaving researchers to speculate about where H. naledi fits in the story of human evolution.

Kate wrote the cover story for the February 2005 issue of Scientific American about the fossils of tiny humans found on the island of Flores in Indonesia.

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

So over decades, I had read all sorts of stories about people who had gone out into the wilds and explored the unknown, and I thought that if we could just focus on the central experiences of their lives, I could condense all sorts of stories into just chapter length tales and put a bunch of them together, sort of show the whole arc of the discovery of the idea of evolution and really where we stand today, right up to very recent things like Neanderthal DNA and the discovery of some recent transitional fossils.

This week we have stories on strange dimming at a not - so - distant star, sending sperm to the International Space Station, and what the fossil record tells us about how baleen whales got so ginormous with Online News Editor David Grimm.

But these fossils, scientists say, tell a different story about the onset of human evolution.

The ability to find and study the remains of animals, plants and other organisms that lived millions of years ago is extraordinary, and as technology has improved over the past few decades, scientists have realized that fossils contain more information about the stories of extinct life forms than even Charles Darwin could have imagined.

Jane Qiu's story, on how fossil finds in China are challenging ideas about human evolution, won the Silver 2016 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.

He recounts, for example, a conversation with a top television network editor who was reluctant to run stories about global warming because a previous story had» triggered a barrage of complaints from the Global Climate Coalition» — a fossil fuel industry lobbying group...

Given the rising costs of fossil fuels, this would be a PR nightmare for the generation industry, but UBS raises the possibility, echoing our story last year about how electricity business models and markets are effectively broken.

Since then, events have told a rather different story, with the U.S. waging a multi-front campaign — organizing a global network of bilateral agreements designed to render the U.N. climate process «irrelevant», sending out its flacks to argue that fossil technologies like «clean coal» and carbon capture are the best ways forward, insisting that the under - funded climate secretariat separate its Kyoto Protocol accounts from those related to the Framework Convention, ruthlessly undermining all attempts to talk about, or even talk about talking about, the future of the regime.

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When I interviewed my friend Tim Toben, he argued that one of the most important things we can do is to «tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to a world powered by renewable energy — in poetry, music, art, dance.

When I interviewed my friend Tim Toben, he argued that one of the most important things we can do is to «tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to a world powered by renewable energy — in

When I interviewed my friend Tim Toben of Greenbridge and Pickards Mountain Ecoinstitute, he suggested it was important that we all «tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to a world powered by renewable energy — in poetry, music, art, dance.»

Images: Story of Coal, Story of Electronics, Brief History of Fossil Fuels, What Happens When the Oil Runs Out And the Oscar for Best Green Short Goes to... One of the great things about the web is how inexpensive it now is to reach a lot of people.

The story of how this important physical property was discovered, how its role in the geological past was evaluated and how we came to understand that its increased concentration, via fossil fuel burning, would adversely affect our future, covers about two centuries of enquiry, discovery, innovation and problem - solving.

In this short book, David Archer gives us the latest on climate change research, and skillfully tells the climate story that he helped to discover: generations beyond our grandchildren's grandchildren will inherit atmospheric changes and an altered climate as a result of our current decisions about fossil - fuel burning.

When we interviewed Tim Toben, of Greenbridge Developments, and asked him what every TreeHugger could do to make a better, greener world, he suggested that people should «tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to a world powered by renewable energy — in poetry, music, art, dance.

When we interviewed Tim Toben, of Greenbridge Developments, and asked him what every TreeHugger could do to make a better, greener world, he suggested that people should «tell the story about the transformation from a world powered by fossil fuels to

Every week, I'll bring you important stories from across the country about the impacts and politics of climate change, the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources and environmental issues like water and public lands.

Instead of terrifying the public with scare stories about climate change caused by CO2 emissions, why aren't governments actually doing something about it by replacing fossil - fuel power stations with nuclear ones (and crushing any protests which try to stop them)?

On Saturday, panelists from New Zealand, France, and the World Bank addresseda packed room here at the latest round of climate talks in Bonn to share stories about how and why they are making moves to stop approving and financing fossil fuel expansion.

«'' Energy Democracy» provides an important and inspiring story about how to achieve the post fossil fuel future....»