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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 139121
The E/E pocket reference guide [View all] 83 Dead_Parrot Feb 2012 Mar 2024 44 118980
Time to Wake Up #305: Lyin' Lee Zeldin - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 6 min ago 6 min ago 3 42
Wind and solar generated a record 17% of U.S. electricity in 2025 6 Caribbeans Yesterday 57 min ago 5 297
Extreme global climate outcomes are possible even at 2C of warming 17 OKIsItJustMe 18 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 5 362
What advice would you give to a young person considering a career in nuclear? 2 NNadir 20 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 2 306
2025 Was UK's Driest Spring For 100 Years, But That Didn't Prevent 300,000 Raw Sewage "Storm Overflows" From Water Firms 3 hatrack 15 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 7 242
EPA Administrator Zeldin To Deliver Opening Speech For Climate Liar Central, AKA Heartland Institute, Next Month 2 hatrack 12 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 6 241
Dengue Exploding Globally: Worldwide Cases 500,000 In 2000; 14 Million Cases In 2024, W. 9,000 Deaths 0 hatrack 14 hrs ago 14 hrs ago 12 304
Experiment Begun In 1991 Added 2C Heat To Rocky Mountain Meadow; It Transformed Test Plot To Desert Scrub 1 hatrack 15 hrs ago 15 hrs ago 14 333
Study links past emissions to trillions in future economic damages 0 OKIsItJustMe 18 hrs ago 18 hrs ago 3 203
Well, duh. German energy minister calls nuclear phase-out 'huge mistake.' 1 NNadir Yesterday Yesterday 5 376
Demand-Side Opportunities for Process Industry Participation in Electricity Markets 2 NNadir Tuesday Yesterday 2 367
Multiscale Mechanistic Insights into Hydrogen Production from Microalgae via Molten Hydroxide-Mediated Thermochemical... 6 NNadir Friday Yesterday 2 656
Lincolnshire Residents Hit By Multiple Floods Have Had It W. Reform MP And Climate Liar They Elected 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 5 384
Trump Toadies Pleading W. Oil Majors To Drill Baby Drill: BP: "There Is No Potential Supply Response" 2 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 9 386
Thanks To Explosive Wildfires And Dust, The Majority Of Earth's People Breathed Unhealthy Air In 2024 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 5 263
'How Successful Has The ESA Been?': Whitehouse Asks Wildlife Expert About Endangered Species Act - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Yesterday Yesterday 3 275
Record-smashing heat continues: 'Basically the entire U.S. is going to be hot' 4 OKIsItJustMe Monday Tuesday 11 432
Pacific Northwest scientist David Suzuki fears the climate damage we've caused is now past a grave tipping poiny 6 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday Tuesday 15 477
Aviation chiefs warn Europe is unprepared and underinvested in face of wildfire surge, according to new report ... 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 5 247
African coastlines face unprecedented sea level surge crisis 8 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 3 308
From Tropics to Poles: How Pacific Ocean Warming Sets the Stage for Antarctic Stratospheric Changes Months Later 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 6 250
Uganda reintroduces rhinos into a protected area where they have been extinct since 1983 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday Tuesday 10 226
Warming coastal waters primary driver of large-scale humid heatwaves 2 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 7 301
UN: Vital Freshwater Fish Migrations are Collapsing 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 4 175
Climate change and the private solution trap 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 5 257
DOE Pushing New Coal Plant In Alaska Because AI; It'll Use Lignite From A Coal Mine That Doesn't Exist 6 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 442
Shitstain Accidently Does The Right Thing: $1 Billion In "Carbon Capture" Projects Remain In Limbo 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 4 403
Far more countries face critical food insecurity if world heats up by 2C, analysis shows 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 2 180

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Warmest Winter Ever In 6 Western States; Temps In 50s And 60s Across Rockies Last Week, Even Above 10,000 Feet 1 hatrack Monday Monday 5 317
First New Nuclear Reactor Constructed at Idaho National Lab in 50 Years to Go Critical. 6 NNadir Sunday Monday 6 577
Colorado Basin States Resume Water Negotiations; Focus Largely On Short-Term, Stopgap Measures 1 hatrack Monday Monday 6 255
UN weather agency warns of record 'climate imbalance' as planetary warming accelerates 2 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 8 406
Nebraska Fires Surpass 700,000 Acres, Though Now Largely Contained; Biggest One Is The Biggest Fire In State History 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 6 426
Beavers create carbon sinks when they dam. 1 applegrove Sunday Sunday 5 333
150+ Daily Temperature Records And 50 All-Time Monthly Records Broken Since Tuesday As Heatwave Continues, Spreads 4 hatrack Sunday Sunday 12 430
Floating wetlands boost water quality, slash greenhouse emissions 2 highplainsdem Saturday Sunday 9 356
Northern Australia Dealing With Its Fifth Declared Disaster In A Single Wet Season - This Is What Climate Collapse Does 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 8 518
5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds 3 littlemissmartypants Sunday Sunday 5 366
Nuclear Fuel: The Most Sophisticated Industrial Product You've Never Learned About 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 2 289
Old growth forests store way more carbon: 2 applegrove Saturday Saturday 5 326
Researchers at U of W have figured out how to turn plastic waste into acetic acid (...vinegar) using the sun 3 applegrove Friday Saturday 11 435
Permian Basin Methane Leaks 4X EPA Estimates For 2024-25; Sen. Whitehouse In Pursuit Of Additional Data 2 hatrack Saturday Saturday 15 393
Global Dengue Cases Doubled In 2024 From 2023 To 12 Million; Study Links Surge To Extreme Rain From Climate Breakdown 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 8 301
Susan Collins Cannot (Alas!) Be Bothered To Even Appear "Concerned" When It Comes To A Collapsing Climate 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 17 485
New Coal Seam Gas Project In Queensland Will Produce 120 Million Tons Of CO2 - It Will Operate Through 2081 4 hatrack Friday Friday 4 348
Cancer risk may increase with proximity to nuclear power plants -- Harvard 6 Caribbeans Friday Friday 3 527
110F Recorded In Yuma Desert In Arizona; Highest March Temperature On Record In The United States 2 hatrack Friday Friday 8 392
Vietnam accelerates shift to ethanol fuel as Iran war drives up energy prices 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 3 270
Five disasters in a single wet season show the climate crisis is here and now in the Northern Territory (of Australia) 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 6 303
US Western Heatwave Pushing Temperatures Up To 30F Higher Than Normal; "Virtually Impossible" w/o Global Warming 4 hatrack Friday Friday 12 408
Climate variability poses a threat to cold blooded animals 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 7 278
Old-growth forests store a lot more carbon than managed forests 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 5 284
Big Advertising Move By Big Oil; From Of Greenwashing To "You Can't Live Without Us", Along W. Lots Of Tech Hopium 9 hatrack Friday Friday 5 494
James Hansen et al: Super El Nino? Super Warming is the Main Issue. 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 6 395
State-Level Projections Of How Uninsureable Homes And Businesses Are Becoming: CA, FL, IL, MI, NE, NC, GA 7 hatrack Thursday Friday 11 637
7,500 Residents, 6 Planned Data Centers, 14% Of Town 2B Erased, At Least 450 Diesel Generators - Welcome To Archbald, PA 2 hatrack Friday Friday 13 507
March Heatwave Likely To Break All-Time April Heat Records; 800 Records At Risk Nationwide By End Of Month 0 hatrack Friday Friday 7 384
North TX Temps Will Push 100F This Weekend, With More Record Heat Coming The Following Wednesday 0 hatrack Friday Friday 2 249

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Oil Majors Knew They Were Destroying The Louisiana Coast; Chevron Found Liable, But Case Now Before SCOTUS 0 hatrack Friday Friday 10 365
Asia Turns Back to Coal as War Chokes Off Natural Gas 1 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Friday 2 348
Snowbasin to end season prematurely: "This is not what we wanted" 0 nitpicked Friday Friday 6 427
Scramble for Jet Fuel Shows How Energy Shortages Are Rippling Across Asia 0 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Friday 6 366
Tracking the Pollution Exposure of an Ecosystem by Applying Nuclear Bomb Testing Debris. 1 NNadir Thursday Thursday 3 554
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 0 107
'Unprecedented' wildfires in tropical peatlands during 20th century 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 3 330
The Biogeochemical Fate of the Long Lived Radioactive Fission Product Selenium-79. 11 NNadir Mar 13 Thursday 0 1223
Southeast Asian Nations Reeling From Energy Shock; Four-Day Weeks, New Fuel Subsidies, Oil Export Bans 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 308
Growers And Botanists Working To Improve Robusta Coffee, Which Will Likely Survive Warming Better Than Arabica 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 371
Category 5 Cyclone Narelle Heading For Cape York (N. Australia) With Winds At 195 mph; Landfall AM Friday 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 439
"A Hostile, Inefficient Work Culture Designed To Push People Out" - Nearly 20% Of Interior Staff Have Quit Or Retired 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 11 430
"We're Really Running Wildlife Off of the Planet": Sen. Whitehouse on Threats to Endangered Species - Senator Whitehouse 2 Rhiannon12866 Mar 18 Mar 18 11 338
CCNY Research Professor Kaveh Madani wins 'Nobel Prize of Water' 4 OKIsItJustMe Mar 18 Mar 18 8 447
If It's Too Hot To Safely Work Or Exercise Outdoors, More People Will Die - +/- 500K Globally Every Year 3 hatrack Mar 18 Mar 18 11 462
Severe U.S. drought (in late 1980's) undermined Gulf fisheries, raising (future) food security concerns 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 18 Mar 18 3 251
Rapid melting of Antarctic sea ice largely driven by ocean warming 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 18 Mar 18 7 272
New ice core studies expand histories of greenhouse gases and ocean temperature to 3 million years 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 18 Mar 18 6 313
UBC study links artificial turf fields to lethal chemical threat for salmon 4 OKIsItJustMe Mar 18 Mar 18 6 431
Sen. Whitehouse Lambasts Trump Energy Policies: "Are they stupid? Or is something darker going on?" - Senator Whitehouse 8 Rhiannon12866 Mar 17 Mar 18 13 686
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