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A battle is raging over ATVs on public lands 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 3 Jul 3 3 463
Swiss nuclear power plant shuts down reactor due to the heat 4 Random Boomer Jul 3 Jul 3 9 584
Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory 10 Dulcinea Jul 3 Jul 3 19 821
CNN: Google just bought 200 megawatts of fusion energy that doesn't even exist yet 8 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2 Jul 2 3 685
Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jul 1 Jul 2 6 428
Four Months To Go Before Next UN Climate Confab With The Process Thoroughly Stuck In The Mud 4 hatrack Jul 2 Jul 2 2 370
Reuters: Heatwave across Europe leaves 8 dead as early summer temperatures hit records 0 OKIsItJustMe Jul 2 Jul 2 7 356
Beyond Urban Heat Islands, Rural Areas Face Their Own Threats In Age Of Weather Extremes 1 hatrack Jul 2 Jul 2 8 363
Paris Closes Top Of The Eifel Tower; 90F + At Wimbledon; Italy Bans Outdoor Work During The Afternoon 2 hatrack Jul 2 Jul 2 5 460
Govt Bans Tapwater For 60,000 Residents Of Eastern France: PFAS Contamination At 4X Legal Limit 0 hatrack Jul 2 Jul 2 5 379
Environmental groups sue over "Alligator Alcatraz" - Face the Nation 0 Rhiannon12866 Jul 2 Jul 2 4 302
Heatwave record broken at an altitude of over 3.1 miles in the Alps. 3 Tonk Jul 1 Jul 1 7 550
We're Deep Frying The Rainforest - Climate Town 1 Escaped Floridian Jul 1 Jul 1 7 422
Alpha-Gal Syndrome, Carried By Expanding Tick Populations, Has Gone From Dozens Of Cases In 2009 To 450,000 Today 40 hatrack Jun 29 Jul 1 62 3831
Zhangjiagang powered up with hydrogen. East China city using clean energy to support public transport 2 Caribbeans Jun 30 Jul 1 1 359
What Will Our World Look Like at 4 Degrees? 0 Uncle Joe Jun 30 Jun 30 10 633
An All-Out Attack on our Forests and Wildlife 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 30 Jun 30 5 456
Last-minute changes to Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' stun clean energy industry (and Elon Musk) 2 Eugene Jun 30 Jun 30 7 638
The Indian monsoon has now covered the entire country, just over a week earlier than average 1 OnlinePoker Jun 30 Jun 30 6 441
Under Current Trends, 70% Of Amazon Basin Rainforest Will Shift To Savannah When We Destroy 20-25% Of Its Historic Area 0 hatrack Jun 30 Jun 30 8 353
A Mysterious Blob of Cold Water Defies Ocean Heat - Now We Know Why 2 Judi Lynn Jun 30 Jun 30 17 759
Oh No!! The Giant Pile Of Shit Bill Will Hurt Growth Of Data Centers And AI By Making Energy More Expensive!! 0 hatrack Jun 30 Jun 30 6 400
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 red dog 1 Jun 29 Jun 29 1 435
All Together Now! Microplastic Pollution, Ocean Acidification, Halogenated Methanes, Ozone Collapse... Delicious! 5 NNadir Jun 29 Jun 29 10 720
"World's First Hydrogen Helicopter Takes Off": Historic Flight Just Changed Aviation Forever & Left Engineers Speechless 3 Caribbeans Jun 28 Jun 29 4 622
Mexico's President Threatens Eloon Over Debris Falls And Contamination From His Exploding Rockets 1 hatrack Jun 29 Jun 29 10 451
Daily Heat Records Set On Tuesday Alone For At Least 50 Cities Just In The Eastern US As Heatwave Clamped Down 5 hatrack Jun 28 Jun 28 5 1135
Heat Emergencies Declared Across Western Europe; Temps In Spain & Portugal Pushing 108F 1 hatrack Jun 28 Jun 28 9 395
Google Is So Very Green That Their CO2 Pollution Has Risen 51% In Just 6 Years - Thanks, AI!!! 7 hatrack Jun 28 Jun 28 24 1121
Separations of Actinides and Lanthanides From Used Nuclear Fuel with Destructible Ligands. 0 NNadir Jun 28 Jun 28 3 341

Environment & Energy Continued...

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A Non-Ablative Composite Refractory Material Tolerant To Temperatures Up to 2000 Degrees Centigrade. 0 NNadir Jun 28 Jun 28 3 394
Cutting Energy Efficiency Home Tax Credits Would Save $21 Billion, So Let's Add $18 Billion In New Oil & Gas Tax Breaks 2 hatrack Jun 28 Jun 28 5 428
Upper Atmosphere Cooling Rapidly; Stratosphere Lost 1% Of Its Depth (1,300 Feet) Since 1980 0 hatrack Jun 27 Jun 27 2 348
Climate Talks Shaping Up As The Mother Of All Shitshows; No Commitments, No Money, No Place To Stay In Belem 0 hatrack Jun 27 Jun 27 1 341
Post-Harvest Air Pollution In N. India Directly Responsible For 100s/1,000s Of Deaths In Multiple Cities 0 hatrack Jun 27 Jun 27 1 321
British Antarctic Survey Scientist Dr. Louise Sime On Antarctic Tipping Points, 2023's 5-Sigma Sea Ice Loss 0 hatrack Jun 27 Jun 27 3 318
Top 5 Whale Scenes BBC Earth 2 Uncle Joe Jun 27 Jun 27 12 498
Washington State Is Getting Hydrogen Fuel And It's Nine Times Cheaper Than California's 0 Caribbeans Jun 27 Jun 27 2 399
The desert is getting too hot for the saguaro cactus 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 27 Jun 27 11 584
Shipping is one of the world's dirtiest industries - could this invention finally clean up cargo fleets? 2 jgo Jun 27 Jun 27 6 520
Toxic algae blooms are lasting longer in Lake Erie − why that's a worry for people and pets 0 Diamond_Dog Jun 27 Jun 27 2 321
"Hydrogen Just Got Cheaper Than Ever": New Solar Reactor Breakthrough Crushes Electrolysis Costs, Redefines Clean Energy 5 Caribbeans Jun 26 Jun 27 3 671
"Climate Impacts Aren't Better Conditions For Vineyards In Kent, They're Broad-Spectrum Enshittification" 0 hatrack Jun 27 Jun 27 6 373
2024 Antarctic Voyage Shows Freshening Seas, Microplastics Everywhere, Penguin Chicks Dying In Rainstorms 1 hatrack Jun 27 Jun 27 9 863
Climate Collapse Driving Early Arrival Of Midsummer Heat; IOW, June Is Now July 0 hatrack Jun 27 Jun 27 8 390
Giant Sequoias Are Taking Root in an Unexpected Place: Detroit 10 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 27 23 2853
Sweltering Heat At This Years Matches May Preview Extreme Conditions At 2026 World Cup 0 hatrack Jun 27 Jun 27 2 310
Hitachi Energy's HyFlex hydrogen-powered generator is gaining international recognition, earning two major awards 0 Caribbeans Jun 26 Jun 26 1 547
Commuter traffic stops for whales on Australia's humpback highway 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 26 Jun 26 8 468
Another Hydrogen Perpetual Motion Machine, Steam Reforming of Methanol to Make Hydrogen. 2 NNadir Jun 24 Jun 26 0 415
In the Arizona desert, a farm raising fish raises questions about water use 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 25 Jun 26 5 732
The New York Governors Cuomo, Governor Hochul, and the Environment. 2 NNadir Jun 25 Jun 26 2 428
In South Africa, a Smart Gate Could Help Connect Elephants' Fragmented Habitat 0 Judi Lynn Jun 26 Jun 26 5 374
Senator Whitehouse on Trump's EPA: "A Cesspool of Fossil Fuel-Driven Corruption" - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Jun 25 Jun 25 13 386
Bio-stimulated hydrogen production - Gold H2's Subsurface Hydrogen Breakthrough Could Rewrite Clean Energy Economics 1 Caribbeans Jun 25 Jun 25 2 503
Hydrogen Fuel Cells Take the Wheel: FAW Hongqi Cuts Hydrogen Use by 15% in Breakthrough 0 Caribbeans Jun 25 Jun 25 2 312
Paterson NJ Fire Chief Declared A Mass Casualty Event At HS Graduation Monday; 150+ Heat-Related Illnesses 5 hatrack Jun 25 Jun 25 14 604
US Forest Service plans to repeal rule that has blocked logging and mining across the West 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 25 Jun 25 3 362
"Cancer Is Just Everywhere" - Iowa 1 Of 2 US States Where Cancer Is Increasing; Is Industrial Ag Part Of The Reason? 2 hatrack Jun 25 Jun 25 13 681
Major Australian Retirement Fund Claims "Net Zero" While Becoming Whitehaven Coal's 2nd- Biggest Shareholder 0 hatrack Jun 25 Jun 25 4 341

Environment & Energy Continued...

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"Death By 1,000 Cuts" - Max Temperature Increase For Coral Reef Survival 1-1.5C, And We're Already Topping Out 1 hatrack Jun 25 Jun 25 9 371
Dr. Genevieve Gunther On Tipping Points, Doomerism And How Badly Nordhaus Missed The Mark On Economic Impacts 0 hatrack Jun 25 Jun 25 5 402
Beyond 80N, Lightning Storms Increase From +/- 100 Per Year In The Early 2010s To More Than 7,000 Today 1 hatrack Jun 25 Jun 25 5 460
Well, Well - Spain/Portugal Blackout In April Was Caused By Failures At Conventional Plants , Not By Renewables 1 hatrack Jun 25 Jun 25 5 430
Eminent Domain Land Grab - petition 2 evemac Jun 21 Jun 25 7 517
Andrea becomes the first tropical storm of the Atlantic season 0 OnlinePoker Jun 24 Jun 24 3 475
Wheat, Barley, Soy Output Projected To Fall As Earth Warms, Particularly In US, Ukraine, Russia, China 3 hatrack Jun 24 Jun 24 3 475
Trump rescinds protections on 59m acres of national forest to allow logging 5 cbabe Jun 24 Jun 24 9 814
Wisconsin Supreme Court delivers win for environmentalists in fight over 'forever chemicals' 0 Eugene Jun 24 Jun 24 2 377
Q: "Why Is Big Tech Investing Billions In Fusion?" A: Because They Like Burning Money On Shiny Bullshit Like AI 8 hatrack Jun 24 Jun 24 6 1039
Climate Change 0 surfered Jun 24 Jun 24 2 343
TX Faces $150 Billion+ Bill For Water Infrastructure Through 2075, So Sales Tax Will Fund $1 Billion/Year For 20 Years 5 hatrack Jun 23 Jun 24 4 520
Sen. Whitehouse Dives Into the Fossil Fuel-Funded RAGA Scheme: An "Industry Masked as Government" - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Jun 24 Jun 24 4 454
Chinese scientists set new efficiency record for solar-to-hydrogen conversion 2 Caribbeans Jun 23 Jun 23 2 1709
404 Media: 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community 10 OKIsItJustMe Jun 23 Jun 23 18 1200
Green Hydrogen Plans Evaporate; Projects Fold, PlugShare Deeply In Debt, AI Driving Demand For Cheapest Possible Energy 3 hatrack Jun 23 Jun 23 4 452
Advanced AI models generate up to 50 times more CO₂ emissions than more common LLMs when answering the same questions 5 littlemissmartypants Jun 21 Jun 23 9 565
Northern Virginia data centers have topped 4,900 megawatts. What does that mean? 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 23 Jun 23 10 566
US Skips Bonn Climate Conference, Since They Can Shit All Over Discussions During Brazil Summit In December 1 hatrack Jun 23 Jun 23 8 391
"I Feel Like I've Been Lied To" Says TX Chiropractor Who Got Violently Ill From Measles 10 hatrack Jun 22 Jun 23 12 1161
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