News articles tagged with 'footprint'
Oldest evidence of dinosaurs found in Polish footprints
— 6 Oct 2010 04:26 | Geology and palaeontologyThe oldest evidence of the dinosaur lineage - fossilised tracks - is described this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Just one or two million years after the massive Permian-Triassic…
Ancient reptiles 'make tracks'
— 30 Jul 2010 10:07 | Geology and palaeontologyThe 318-million-year-old reptile footprints were found in sea-cliffs on the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada. They show that reptiles were the first vertebrates (animals with a backbone)…
Fossil footprints give land vertebrates a much longer history
— 11 Jan 2010 15:07 | Geology and palaeontologyThe discovery of fossil footprints from early backboned land animals in Poland leads to the sensational conclusion that our ancestors left the water at least 18 million years earlier…
Water footprint of beer more on the farm than in the brewery
— 18 Aug 2009 11:53 | EnvironmentThe total water involved in producing beer is overwhelmingly used on the farm rather than in the brewery, according to a report presented to World Water Week by major brewer SAB Miller…
Ancient footprints show earliest evidence of modern foot anatomy and walking
— 26 Feb 2009 19:00 | Geology and palaeontologyThe George Washington University professor Brian Richmond and his colleagues have discovered a set of 1.5 million-year-old human ancestor footprints in Kenya that show the earliest…
Bank of New Zealand reduces carbon footprint with Red Hat on the mainframe
— 7 Feb 2009 12:44 | TechnologyRed Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and IBM announced that Bank of New Zealand, a subsidiary of the National Australia Bank Group, has deployed Red…
Using water to understand human society - from the industrial revolution to global trade
— 26 Nov 2008 09:48 | EnvironmentWater shapes societies, but it is a factor only just beginning to be appreciated by social scientists. The Norwegian professor, writer and film maker Terje Tvedt, of the Universities…
Living Planet analysis shows looming ecological credit crunch
— 29 Oct 2008 11:54 | EnvironmentThe world is heading for an ecological credit crunch as human demands on the world's natural capital reach nearly a third more than earth can sustain. That is the stark warning contained…
A dinosaur dance floor
— 20 Oct 2008 11:25 | Geology and palaeontologyUniversity of Utah geologists identified an amazing concentration of dinosaur footprints that they call 'a dinosaur dance floor,' located in a wilderness on the Arizona-Utah border…
Water Footprint Network promotes sustainable and fair use of water resources
— 17 Oct 2008 12:48 | EnvironmentTogether with six global partners including the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and UNESCO, the University of Twente in The Netherlands found the Water Footprint Network on 16 October…