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fossil

[fos-uhl] / ˈfɒs əl /


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Bass’ Climate Action Plan calls for doubling local solar power in Los Angeles by 2030 and reducing the use of fossil fuels in buildings and city buses.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026

Ivanhoe is one node in a globe-spanning supply chain in which fossil fuels underpin the technologies pitched as their replacements.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

This study follows closely on the heels of another recent paper in Nature that also examined a possible Nanotyrannus fossil discovered in Montana and now housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.

From Science Daily • Apr. 15, 2026

"The lesson of yet another global energy shock is that the UK needs to get off the fossil fuel rollercoaster and onto clean homegrown power that we control," he says.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

“And that means, we are most likely to find a fossil in a place that once had water.”

From "A Rover's Story" by Jasmine Warga




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