Natural Sciences Quarterly Newsletter Vol. 10, No. 3 (July–September 2012)
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so too is utility. As Iain Stewart from Plymouth University (UK) observed last February at the 40th anniversary of the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) at UNESCO in Paris, show a piece of coal to an industrialist and they will see a source of fuel; show it to an ecologist and they will see a source of carbon emissions; show it to a geologist and they will see a climate which existed more than 300 million years ago (Ma)....