Multiscalar Practices of Fossil Fuel Displacement

Finding best practices for fossil fuel extraction.

COVER Remains of an older woman buried in the mid-1800s at Badia Pozzeveri graveyard in Altopascio, Italy. She is one of several skeletons entombed in lime, probably to quell infection during an epidemic. Archaeologists are currently studying skeletons buried over the course of 1000 years at this site for clues to ancient health and disease. For further information, see pages 1291 and 1306 and ...

Fossil fuel subsidies and health.

In calling for a switch of fossil fuel subsidies to funding of universal health coverage, Vinay Gupta and colleagues (June, 2015) miss two health-relevant issues: all fossil fuels are not the same and all subsidies are not the same. Liquefi ed petroleum gas (LPG) has major, direct health advantages in household cooking in countries of low and middle income, its primary use. Indeed, the Global B...

Fossil Fuel and Food Security

Fossil fuel biodegradation: laboratory studies.

Biodegradation of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons of creosote by undefined bacterial cultures was shown to be accompanied by the accumulation of neutral and acidic oxidation products. Formation of a number of identified neutral products is accounted for by demonstration of anomalous actions of an arene dioxygenase on the benzylic methylene and methylene carbons of napthenoaromatic hydrocar...

The Moral Magnitude of Fossil Fuel Investments