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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 149198
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It looks like "by 2038" for closing Germany's coal plants is "by some other time." 0 NNadir 46 min ago 46 min ago 1 126
Detailed breakdown on Tesla's new battery design 9 Finishline42 Wednesday 4 hrs ago 3 547
US EPA proposes delaying enforcement of Biden vehicle pollution rule 0 OKIsItJustMe 4 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 3 149
Satellite launch pollution rapidly accumulating in the upper atmosphere 2 OKIsItJustMe 13 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 7 296
El Nino Prediction - 82% chance in May-July 2026 - 96% chance in December 2026-February 2027 0 OKIsItJustMe 7 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 9 345
New research reveals rapid methane release mechanism at the front of retreating ice sheets (during last glacial cycle) 0 OKIsItJustMe 8 hrs ago 8 hrs ago 4 268
Alberta Premier: Building An Oil Pipeline To The Pacific "Consistent With The Teachings Of Jesus" 6 hatrack 17 hrs ago 13 hrs ago 5 353
In Chile, A Retired Kindergarten Teacher Guards The Only Continental Colony Of King Penguins On Earth 2 hatrack 16 hrs ago 14 hrs ago 15 347
Best Cryptic Headline Of The Week - Choughs Reappear At Tintagel After Decades Of Absence 3 hatrack 16 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 12 409
Buildling A Wall Of Money - Oil Majors Will Likely Use Exploding Profits To Lock In Trump-Era Policies 1 hatrack Sunday 16 hrs ago 5 370
April 2026 4th-Warmest Global April On Record; Earth's Oceans Saw 2nd-Warmest Temps Recorded For The Same Month 1 hatrack 17 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 3 215
Hydrogen-fueled drone submarine with 17 sensors could scan Hormuz for naval mines 0 Caribbeans 21 hrs ago 21 hrs ago 0 271
Multiple Large-Scale "Carbon Capture" Projects Slated For Illinois; Increasingly, Residents Aren't Buying The Story 4 hatrack Saturday 22 hrs ago 7 547
US Drinking Water Systems Under Growing Strain From Coast To Coast - Drought, Floods, Debris Flows 1 hatrack Wednesday 22 hrs ago 9 406
El Nino Teeing Up A Major Fire Year; Drought Already Hit SE Asia; Globally, Alaska-Sized Area Has Already Burned 1 hatrack Wednesday 22 hrs ago 4 381
Vibrio Bacteria Pushing North To Seas Once Too Cold To Support It, Like Gulf Of Maine; +/- 100 Fatalities/Year In US 2 hatrack Wednesday 22 hrs ago 4 246
Sustainability Blahblah Clean Fuels Blah - European Airline Emissions Higher Than Pre-COVID; Ryanair Up 50% Since 2019 2 hatrack Sunday 22 hrs ago 4 358
Sen. Whitehouse: "We Must Not let Creeping Political Influence Compromise the NRC" 0 Rhiannon12866 22 hrs ago 22 hrs ago 4 253
Oceans Are Warming? Senate Republicans Disagree. - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 3 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday 22 hrs ago 6 299
Data Centers Already Using 6% Of Electricity Available In The US And The UK; Pushback Begins At 5% 5 hatrack Wednesday 22 hrs ago 8 362
Pardon me if this was posted earlier: Summer is getting longer, and it's happening faster than we thought 4 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 7 371
Electricity could produce cement with almost no carbon footprint 0 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 9 352
Study Finds Wetter Storms Mean Drier Conditions Over Time 0 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 3 242
When the Schuylkill swallowed the city: Lessons from Hurricane Ida's historic flood 2 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 6 344
Time to Wake Up #307: The Mischief Continues - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 5 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 26 835
Newly recognized pollutant widely present in atmosphere 1 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 10 479
Governor Sherrill, NJ, Working to Keep Her Nuclear Promise. 1 NNadir Wednesday Wednesday 4 281
Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan 0 thought crime Wednesday Wednesday 12 341

Environment & Energy Continued...

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LIDAR Flights Reveal Western Snowpack Crisis; California's Snowpack Was At 18% Of Avg 4/1, Declining Since Then 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 369
A New Study Explains How Carbon Dioxide Cools the Upper Atmosphere--and Warms Earth Below 0 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 2 236
UC Irvine team identifies where renewable hydrogen delivers the greatest social benefit 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 1 237
xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 4 288
How underwater speakers are helping revive coral reefs devastated by climate change - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Tuesday Tuesday 10 437
This 600-Mile Liquid Hydrogen eVTOL Just Got A 20-Aircraft Order 1 Caribbeans Monday Tuesday 9 424
Lobbying battle intensifies as E15 ethanol bill nears US vote 1 Eugene Tuesday Tuesday 0 291
'I couldn't breathe': the sinister spread of France's killer seaweed 1 cbabe Tuesday Tuesday 10 475
A Uranium Adsorbing Alginate Polyacylonitrile Membrane With Superior Regeneration Performance. 9 NNadir Sunday Tuesday 3 793
As drought worsens, Western states brace for wildfires, water shortages 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 8 319
Oil Crisis? How about we Reduce Demand? Here's How 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 4 401
Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 1 224
It looks like the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory's Instrument is back up, with the second highest measurement ever seen. 0 NNadir Monday Monday 7 982
"Green Finance", "Carbon Offsets" Just More Ways To Greenwash, Create Market Plays While Doing Nothing For Climate 3 hatrack Monday Monday 4 345
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 18 721
Airline emissions in Europe top pre-Covid levels despite pledge to decarbonise 2 OKIsItJustMe Friday Sunday 3 367
"It Is Time To Close The Chapter On FEMA" - Trump Committee Plans To Deliberately Destroy Federal Emergency Response 7 hatrack Sunday Sunday 22 725
Odd But Interesting: GQP Senate Candidate In LA Staking His Campaign On Opposing "Carbon Capture" Projects 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 402
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 9 461
Um, delicious!!! Recovery of Highly Toxic Tellurium Used for Super Efficient Solar Cells. 1 NNadir Friday Sunday 1 563
German Engineers Packed Hydrogen Into Hollow Tractor Wheels. Now the Machines Run All Day Without Heavy Batteries 4 Caribbeans Saturday Saturday 20 1091
Metrobus cancellations after hydrogen bus fire in Crawley 7 NNadir Saturday Saturday 2 659
Concentrated Solar Power finds a new Niche 3 thought crime Friday Saturday 3 503
"Filthy", "Mind-Blowing", "Legally Problematic" - Federal Judge's Take On Proposed Bayer Roundup Settlement 3 hatrack Saturday Saturday 12 509
World's largest nuclear facility could be built in Ontario with new $300M deal 5 OnlinePoker May 7 Saturday 3 425
Toxic Heavy Metals - Tungsten, Selenium, Arsenic - Concentrating In San Luis Valley Water Supply As Drought Stretches On 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 327
Superfund Sites In New Jersey Awaiting Cleanup For 40 Years Or More; W. EPA Gutted, Remediation Grinding To A Halt 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 293
Senior Interior Official Flat-Out Said Changes In Federal Grazing Policy Personally Enriched Her - 6 Months Ago 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 6 328
The disaster unfolding on Russia's Black Sea coast is of its own making 0 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Saturday 5 465
War. What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing. But... 0 thought crime Friday Friday 1 313

Environment & Energy Continued...

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'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds 16 OKIsItJustMe May 4 Friday 13 1027
NOAA/ESRL - April 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content: 431.12 ppm; April 2025 429.64 ppm; April 2024 426.51 ppm 6 hatrack Friday Friday 2 361
Antarctica sea ice collapse driven by triple whammy of climate chaos, scientists find 1 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 10 383
New solar cells hit 30% efficiency and still work after 1,000 hours of power 3 Caribbeans May 7 Friday 6 492
Saskatchewan's plan to extend life of coal power to cost $26B over 25 years: NDP 0 OnlinePoker Friday Friday 1 281
Trump's crackdown on China-linked solar firms stalls U.S. factory boom 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 6 384
EU purchases from Russia's largest natural gas field hit record 3bn (pounds) 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 1 298
Nutrient imbalance may drive coral disease more than heat stress, new study suggests 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 3 244
New Material Technology Boasts High-Performance Carbon Dioxide Absorption 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 2 274
Turning plastic waste into clean fuel using sunlight 1 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 8 382
Brilliant idea for ocean based power generation on front page of the Financial Times yesterday 32 Pluvious May 6 Friday 44 2740
The Pentagon is delaying wind power development -- even on private land 4 applegrove May 7 May 7 9 483
'Indian Nino' Drove Record Heat in 2023 and 2024, New UMD Study Finds 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 295
Hidden methane emerging from beneath the ice reveals Greenland's sensitivity to climate change 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 409
How trees in urban areas are key to cooling down a warmer world 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 5 349
Study Projects Plant Extinction Rates Through 2100. (7% to 16% of global plant species at high risk of extinction) 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 307
Forest Fuel Treatments Reduce Wildfire Spread, Prevent $2.8 Billion in Damage 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 6 448
When faith meets a melting point: New study warns Hajj pilgrimage is breaching human survivability limits 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 9 488
Scientists stunned: Volcano cleans up after itself by removing methane from the air 2 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 6 564
Rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelves may cause global sea levels to rise far faster than expected - new study 3 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 384
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