But, at about six hectares (15 acres), it already looks like the most important late-Cretaceous fossil bed in the world.

ECONOMIST: Dinosaurs

The techniques needed to extract fossil and climatic evidence from this lake bed, and to search for life forms that have adapted to survive in such hostile conditions, would also work on Mars so it is an ideal location to test robots and even to train would-be astronauts.

ECONOMIST: Planetary pretenders

In the fossil fuel industry, both enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and enhanced coal bed methane recovery use compressed CO2 as an input.

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