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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 148850
The E/E pocket reference guide [View all] 83 Dead_Parrot Feb 2012 Mar 2024 44 124998
Newly recognized pollutant widely present in atmosphere 1 OKIsItJustMe 2 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 8 333
Data Centers Already Using 6% Of Electricity Available In The US And The UK; Pushback Begins At 5% 3 hatrack 12 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 5 296
Detailed breakdown on Tesla's new battery design 4 Finishline42 7 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 2 340
Governor Sherrill, NJ, Working to Keep Her Nuclear Promise. 1 NNadir 9 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 3 247
Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan 0 thought crime 5 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 10 299
El Nino Teeing Up A Major Fire Year; Drought Already Hit SE Asia; Globally, Alaska-Sized Area Has Already Burned 0 hatrack 11 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 2 267
Time to Wake Up #307: The Mischief Continues - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 4 Rhiannon12866 15 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 24 759
US Drinking Water Systems Under Growing Strain From Coast To Coast - Drought, Floods, Debris Flows 0 hatrack 11 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 7 286
LIDAR Flights Reveal Western Snowpack Crisis; California's Snowpack Was At 18% Of Avg 4/1, Declining Since Then 0 hatrack 11 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 4 258
A New Study Explains How Carbon Dioxide Cools the Upper Atmosphere--and Warms Earth Below 0 OKIsItJustMe 14 hrs ago 14 hrs ago 1 214
UC Irvine team identifies where renewable hydrogen delivers the greatest social benefit 0 OKIsItJustMe 21 hrs ago 21 hrs ago 1 210
xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit 0 OKIsItJustMe 22 hrs ago 22 hrs ago 4 256
How underwater speakers are helping revive coral reefs devastated by climate change - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Yesterday Yesterday 10 411
This 600-Mile Liquid Hydrogen eVTOL Just Got A 20-Aircraft Order 1 Caribbeans Monday Yesterday 9 398
Lobbying battle intensifies as E15 ethanol bill nears US vote 1 Eugene Yesterday Yesterday 0 264
'I couldn't breathe': the sinister spread of France's killer seaweed 1 cbabe Yesterday Yesterday 10 445
A Uranium Adsorbing Alginate Polyacylonitrile Membrane With Superior Regeneration Performance. 9 NNadir Sunday Yesterday 3 729
As drought worsens, Western states brace for wildfires, water shortages 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 8 294
Oil Crisis? How about we Reduce Demand? Here's How 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 4 374
Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 1 209
It looks like the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory's Instrument is back up, with the second highest measurement ever seen. 0 NNadir Monday Monday 6 964
"Green Finance", "Carbon Offsets" Just More Ways To Greenwash, Create Market Plays While Doing Nothing For Climate 3 hatrack Monday Monday 4 302
No One Is Certain, But EPA Estimates That There are 3.7 Million Abandoned US Oil/Gas Wells, 58% Of Them Unsealed 4 hatrack Sunday Monday 18 694
Airline emissions in Europe top pre-Covid levels despite pledge to decarbonise 2 OKIsItJustMe Friday Sunday 3 350
Sustainability Blahblah Clean Fuels Blah - European Airline Emissions Higher Than Pre-COVID; Ryanair Up 50% Since 2019 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 3 325
"It Is Time To Close The Chapter On FEMA" - Trump Committee Plans To Deliberately Destroy Federal Emergency Response 7 hatrack Sunday Sunday 22 672
Buildling A Wall Of Money - Oil Majors Will Likely Use Exploding Profits To Lock In Trump-Era Policies 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 343
Odd But Interesting: GQP Senate Candidate In LA Staking His Campaign On Opposing "Carbon Capture" Projects 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 381

Environment & Energy Continued...

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It turns out there is an analytical reason we will not get a weekly data point at Mauna Loa for the 2nd time in half... 3 NNadir Saturday Sunday 9 442
Um, delicious!!! Recovery of Highly Toxic Tellurium Used for Super Efficient Solar Cells. 1 NNadir Friday Sunday 1 535
German Engineers Packed Hydrogen Into Hollow Tractor Wheels. Now the Machines Run All Day Without Heavy Batteries 4 Caribbeans Saturday Saturday 20 1070
Metrobus cancellations after hydrogen bus fire in Crawley 7 NNadir Saturday Saturday 2 599
Concentrated Solar Power finds a new Niche 3 thought crime Friday Saturday 3 479
"Filthy", "Mind-Blowing", "Legally Problematic" - Federal Judge's Take On Proposed Bayer Roundup Settlement 3 hatrack Saturday Saturday 12 490
Multiple Large-Scale "Carbon Capture" Projects Slated For Illinois; Increasingly, Residents Aren't Buying The Story 3 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 506
World's largest nuclear facility could be built in Ontario with new $300M deal 5 OnlinePoker Thursday Saturday 3 408
Toxic Heavy Metals - Tungsten, Selenium, Arsenic - Concentrating In San Luis Valley Water Supply As Drought Stretches On 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 309
Superfund Sites In New Jersey Awaiting Cleanup For 40 Years Or More; W. EPA Gutted, Remediation Grinding To A Halt 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 277
Senior Interior Official Flat-Out Said Changes In Federal Grazing Policy Personally Enriched Her - 6 Months Ago 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 315
The disaster unfolding on Russia's Black Sea coast is of its own making 0 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Saturday 5 451
War. What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing. But... 0 thought crime Friday Friday 1 301
'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds 16 OKIsItJustMe May 4 Friday 13 990
NOAA/ESRL - April 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content: 431.12 ppm; April 2025 429.64 ppm; April 2024 426.51 ppm 6 hatrack Friday Friday 2 344
Antarctica sea ice collapse driven by triple whammy of climate chaos, scientists find 1 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 10 369
New solar cells hit 30% efficiency and still work after 1,000 hours of power 3 Caribbeans Thursday Friday 6 467
Saskatchewan's plan to extend life of coal power to cost $26B over 25 years: NDP 0 OnlinePoker Friday Friday 1 272
Trump's crackdown on China-linked solar firms stalls U.S. factory boom 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 6 372
EU purchases from Russia's largest natural gas field hit record 3bn (pounds) 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 1 289
Nutrient imbalance may drive coral disease more than heat stress, new study suggests 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 3 234
New Material Technology Boasts High-Performance Carbon Dioxide Absorption 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 2 261
Turning plastic waste into clean fuel using sunlight 1 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 8 370
Brilliant idea for ocean based power generation on front page of the Financial Times yesterday 32 Pluvious Wednesday Friday 44 2648
The Pentagon is delaying wind power development -- even on private land 4 applegrove Thursday Thursday 9 473
'Indian Nino' Drove Record Heat in 2023 and 2024, New UMD Study Finds 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 4 284
Hidden methane emerging from beneath the ice reveals Greenland's sensitivity to climate change 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 4 380
How trees in urban areas are key to cooling down a warmer world 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 5 336
Study Projects Plant Extinction Rates Through 2100. (7% to 16% of global plant species at high risk of extinction) 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 4 298
Forest Fuel Treatments Reduce Wildfire Spread, Prevent $2.8 Billion in Damage 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 6 435

Environment & Energy Continued...

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When faith meets a melting point: New study warns Hajj pilgrimage is breaching human survivability limits 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 9 474
Scientists stunned: Volcano cleans up after itself by removing methane from the air 2 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 6 547
Rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelves may cause global sea levels to rise far faster than expected - new study 3 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 4 372
Deforestation lessens Amazon rainfall, and climate change hastens that process 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 4 247
Odds Improve For The El Nino Currently Building In The Pacific To Be The Hottest Ever Recorded 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 498
China's Green Hydrogen Production Capacity Surpasses 1.1 Million Tons 1 Caribbeans May 5 Thursday 2 330
Norway Prepares To Meet A Climate-Shattered Future By . . . Extending Natural Gas Production Until 2048!!! 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 4 371
Who Will Decide Whether Roundup Requires Cancer Warnings? The 9 Toxicologists Of The Supreme Court, Of Course 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 355
Imagine falling off the roof of a 565 foot building. 5 hunter May 2 Thursday 6 894
A Discussion, Written Before the War, of the Properties of Ukrainian Used Nuclear Fuel in a Russian Journal. 3 NNadir May 5 Thursday 3 391
Oregon's 2026 Fire Season Began In March; It's Expected To End Sometime In October 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 0 256
Mexico City Sinking At Rate Of Up To 2 Cm/month, As Revealed By New NASA Orbital Radar System 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 4 342
Pushback To Car Bloat May Be Growing In Europe As Popularity Of American Testosterone Shitwagons Grows 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 534
Electrification and energy efficiency 1 thought crime May 5 Wednesday 5 388
40,000 People Live In Gibraltar, A City w/o Any Sewage Treatment; Decade After Decade, Shit & Plastic Flow Into The Sea 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 10 516
Ford Just Wrote Off $20 Billion In Dumped EV Investments, But Swears An "Affordable" EV Pickup On Its Way 2 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 6 517
Corporate Grain & Fertilizer Insiders Bank $66 Milliion From Shares Sold Since Iran War Jacked Up Price Of Everything 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 327
For 60 Years, Texas Legislature Rejected Over 60 Flood Safety Bills Limiting Development In Known Flood Zones 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 6 527
August 2025 Rockslide Tsunami Reached 1,500+ Feet In Height In Alaskan Fjord Routinely Visited By Cruise Ships 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 7 531
Is Trump's DOJ Now Big Oil's Personal Law Firm? - Thom Hartmann 0 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 7 297
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