fossil
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Unlike recent COPs -- where nearly 200 nations forged landmark pacts on phasing down coal or moving away from fossil fuels -- the negotiation agenda at COP31 is light on big-ticket items.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
With a new agreement on fossil fuels unlikely, Turkey is rallying support for a voluntary "electrification" pledge it says could cut heat-trapping emissions and reduce reliance on energy imports.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
And he raised the specter of ruinous financial liability across the fossil fuel industry if state and local lawsuits proliferate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Let me go back a step, in terms of the fossil fuel industry’s relationship with this court.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026
Over the next few years, he tinkered and fussed obsessively with his ideas—arranging and rearranging “ugly facts” like his fossil specimens, but he never got around to publishing the theory.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The impact likely churned up older material and mixed the fossils into the rocks while still preserving them.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
Although the identity of the organism that created the structures remains unknown, the fossils may represent an important stage in the evolution of one of nature's most remarkable navigational abilities.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
Long-necked marine reptiles were common in the seas covering parts of what is now China during the Triassic period, and scientists have discovered fossils of several different species.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
It has helped experts discover that fossils in museums across the continent had been wrongly grouped and were actually made up of two different species - Saurichthys and Birgeria.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
“Did you know fossils of the clawed lobster date back to the Cretaceous?” he asked.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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