Siberia is ablaze with the surplus gas from oil wells just burning off into the sky, adding to Russia's pollution problem.
They also plan within the next decade to stop wastefully burning off the natural gas that is found with the oil.
Spectrometers on the "chase planes" picked up in this light shower the signatures of the various materials in the ship burning off.
In the Bakken, much of that light is produced by burning off or flaring natural gas that is produced as a byproduct from oil wells.
Granted, most of us don't spend a lot of time burning off calories by trying to bag a mastadon, as our distant forefathers did.
Another ad, which will air later this week, features activities that add up to burning off the "140 happy calories" in a can of Coke.
Fog hangs over Sportsman Lake, burning off as the sun rises.
The ads argue that soda shouldn't be singled out for weight gain and encourage Americans to have "fun" burning off calories through dancing and other activities.
The combustion is slow and rich, using just enough oxygen to bust apart the diesel molecules into hydrogen and carbon monoxide without burning off the diesel entirely.
"These foods do fill up the stomach and increase satiety, " says Dr Garvey, keeping you from ingesting more calories later - but not burning off the calories you've already consumed.
An array of state and federal agencies are on the scene, skimming up oily water, installing thousands of feet of boom in an attempt to contain the oil, and burning off some of the slick.
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Gas flaring (burning off natural gas released by oil drilling) in the delta produces 70 million metric tons of carbon emissions a year -- "a substantial proportion of worldwide greenhouse gas, " according to the World Bank.
I've been able to get to within about 10 miles of Kirkuk -- able to see the oil capital of the north: a burning flare, a harmless flare, burning off gases from one of the major oil fields on the outskirts of Kirkuk.
It was seen as a spectacular Italian coup when Eni became operational leader, but the thanks to a poor infrastructure for exploration in the northern Caspian sea, costly regulations about the burning off of gas at oil wells, and the rising costs of oil extraction, production was slowed and costs overrun.
Miners use mercury in processes that extract gold from other minerals by binding it to the element before burning it off.
Imagine the heat in the summer, the bitter cold in the winter, and Mandela going out to quarry stone, the burning white light reflecting off the limestone permanently and deeply injuring his sight.
Giving evidence for the Crown on Friday, he told jurors that Mr Coats and Mr Wade would arrive at the property every day and inflict violence on Ms Spence including burning her, cutting off her thumb and beating her.
Stephen Elop has been struggling to convince the market that his campaign to get Nokia off its "burning platform" and into a profitable future making Windows Phone 7 handsets is on course.
The car itself had its entire front end sheared off, with the burning engine wedged through a gaping hole in the fence.
The Germanic culture that dominated most of northern Europe gave us the word yule, and the tradition of burning a yule log to ward off evil spirits.
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During the crisis, as well as the decimation of livestock farming, British tourism was badly affected, with foreign visitors put off by images of burning pyres of carcasses.
It could mean that more gamers are burning out or taking a year off, and we may see an even bigger launch month for whatever comes next year.
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X-43A will set off on its own, burning hydrogen as it streaks out across the Pacific.
The more sophisticated missiles are programmed to steer towards heat (such as that given off by a fuel-burning jet).
Linen tablecloths hid the wood-burning braziers set under each table to ward off the chill.
And in Europe, the sight of burning carcasses seems to be putting many consumers off red meat altogether.
At best, these laws are scaring off a few tree bugs by burning down a 10th of the forest.
They grabbed his trousers, one on the right leg, one on the left, ripping right through to his winter long johns, and giving off a foul choking smell like burning brakes.
Last year Nokia's Stephen Elop flung his company off what he described as a burning platform, putting the Finnish giant's Symbian operating system out to grass to get into bed with Microsoft's Windows Phone.
In particular aviation planners are focusing on ways of cutting the amount of time planes spend queuing to take off and land, in the process burning large and unnecessary amounts of fuel (IATA estimates that airlines could cut their annual CO2 emissions by 12 percent if air-traffic control operations were more efficient).
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