... the first time the findings of a discovery that could change the way we think about the development of life on Earth. Two years ago, Timothy Kusky, Ph.D., the Paul C. Reinert Professor of Natural Sciences at SLU, and Jianghai Li, a professor of geological science at Peking University, dug up hundreds of fossilized black smoker chimneys in northern China. Since then, the...

... for the first time the findings of a discovery that could change the way we think about the development of life on Earth. Two years ago, Timothy Kusky, Ph.D., the Paul C. Reinert Professor of Natural Sciences at SLU, and Jianghai Li, a professor of geological science at Peking University, dug up hundreds of fossilized black smoker chimneys in northern China. Since then, the researchers...

...States because the Supreme Court is set to tackle the issue in what may be the most significant environmental case to ever reach its halls. Working with my colleague who covers the court, Patty Reinert, I wrote a story on the upcoming case: Fed up with what they perceived as a glacial federal response to melting ice caps and warming temperatures, environmental groups in 1999 asked the ...