In early societies, wood or other biological fuels were the main energy source. Today in many non-industrial societies, they continue to be used widely. Biological fuels may be seen as part of a solar economy where energy is extracted from the sun in...

Fossil fuels are buried deposits of plants and animals that have been converted to coal, petroleum, natural gas, or tar by exposure to heat and pressure in the Earth's crust over hundreds of millions of years. The energy in fossil fuels comes...

Fossil fuels are buried deposits of petroleum, coal, peat, natural gas, and other carbon-rich organic compounds derived from the dead bodies of plants and animals that lived many millions of years ago. Over long periods of time, pressure and heat...

Coal, petroleum, and natural gas are referred to as fossil fuels. Their common origin is as living matter, plants, and, in particular, microorganisms that have accumulated in large quantities under favorable conditions during the earth's long...

Fossil fuels or mineral fuels are fossil source fuels, this is, hydrocarbons found within the top layer of the earth’s crust. They range from very volatile materials with low carbon:hydrogen ratios like methane, to liquid petroleum to nonvolatile...

The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-28-2005 Fossil fuel follies Date: 07-28-2005, Thursday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions PAY no attention when politicians in Washington start ballyhooing the first new energy plan in 14 years. The energy bill that the Senate is...

In his article "An Economy for the Earth" in the May/June 2002 issue of the Humanist, Lester Brown makes the important point that a "deteriorating environment will eventually hurt the economy," stressing the need for an environmentally sustainable economy. He's correct that the...

Only about a third of the climate-damaging carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in North America is offset by carbon removing activities, a government report said Tuesday.Currently, North America produces more than one-fourth of the carbon dioxide released worldwide by burning fossil fuels and other...

President Bush's pick for a top Energy Department post is a former executive for a coal company that has a long history of mine safety and environmental violations.If confirmed as assistant secretary for fossil energy, Stanley C. Suboleski would oversee development of clean-coal technology and...

Explores the use of Fossil Fuels and their future depletion. Postulates that when the demand for fossil fuels is greater than that of supply, it will have a drastic effect on almost every aspect of life.