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As economies expand, copper will be required to build electricity networks for the transition away from fossil fuels, and to create data centres for artificial intelligence, BHP said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

A legal challenge was brought at the Court of Session in Edinburgh in 2024 which argued that consent was given without fully considering the impact of burning the fossil fuels which will be produced.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

But the boss of oil company Adura, CEO Neil McCulloch, says fossil fuels will be needed for years to come and that producing them domestically will generate billions in tax revenues.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026

The fossil was excavated from Upper Cretaceous rock layers in the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026

Today it’s a giant green butterfly on one hand and a spiral fossil on the other.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

The fossils analyzed in the study ranged from 10.5 million to 16 million years old.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

Scientists are becoming better at identifying the types of rocks most likely to contain early fossils, providing new evidence that can help reconstruct the history of Earth's earliest life.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

Finding fossils from much earlier periods requires searching in places where delicate biological material had an unusual chance of surviving.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

To establish that the fossils represented a new species, Cruz closely examined amphibian bones from the La Brea Tar Pits collection, which had not received a detailed assessment in nearly 30 years.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026

Geneticists were able to collect enough intact Neanderthal DNA from fossils to make a broad comparison between it and the DNA of contemporary humans.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari