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2. Fossil fuel - Wikipedia

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   Fossil fuel divestment or fossil fuel divestment and investment in climate solutions is an attempt to reduce climate change by exerting social, political, and economic pressure for the institutional divestment of assets including stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments connected to companies involved in extracting fossil fuels.

3. Carbon-based fuel - Wikipedia

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   Carbon-based fuel is any fuel principally from the oxidation or burning of carbon.Carbon-based fuels are of two main kinds, biofuels and fossil fuels.Whereas biofuels are derived from recent-growth organic matter [1] and are typically harvested, as with logging of forests and cutting of corn, fossil fuels are of prehistoric origin [2] and are extracted from the ground, the principal fossil ...

4. Geochemistry of carbon - Wikipedia

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   Yet it is the twelfth most common element there. In the rock of the lithosphere, carbon commonly occurs as carbonate minerals containing calcium or magnesium. It is also found as fossil fuels in coal and petroleum and gas. Native forms of carbon are much rarer, requiring pressure to form. Pure carbon exists as graphite or diamond. [1]

5. Carbon cycle - Wikipedia

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   Sediments, including fossil fuels, freshwater systems, and non-living organic material. Earth's interior (mantle and crust). These carbon stores interact with the other components through geological processes. The carbon exchanges between reservoirs occur as the result of various chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes.

6. Greenpeace releases animated video in campaign against fossil ...

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   Environmental group Greenpeace released an animated video Wednesday showing a massive amount of oil flooding the field for the upcoming opening game of the Rugby World Cup in a campaign against ...

7. Fossil Fools Day - Wikipedia

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   Fossil Fools Day is an environmental demonstration day on April 1 annually. The name is a play on the term fossil fuels and April Fools' Day.. Fossil Fools Day began in 2004 with coordinated actions across American and Canadian high schools and universities where they played over 125 coordinated April Fools' Day pranks centered around the dangers from using and harvesting fossil fuels.

8. File:Fossil fuel life cycle.svg - Wikipedia

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   Printable version; Page information; ... A diagram of the basic fossil fuel life-cycle: Date: 21 April 2011, 19:12 (UTC) ... (pages on other projects are not listed).

9. Abiogenic petroleum origin - Wikipedia

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   [2] [3] Mainstream theories about the formation of hydrocarbons on earth point to an origin from the decomposition of long-dead organisms, though the existence of hydrocarbons on extraterrestrial bodies like Saturn's moon Titan indicates that hydrocarbons are sometimes naturally produced by inorganic means. A historical overview of theories of ...