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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 126103
The E/E pocket reference guide [View all] 83 Dead_Parrot Feb 2012 Mar 2024 43 110576
Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 4 douglas9 Yesterday 12 hrs ago 27 986
Electric Power Reliability, Energy Burdens, and Climate Change Beliefs in the United States 6 NNadir Wednesday 13 hrs ago 2 619
Jordan Has Lost +/- 70% Of Its Olive Crop After Months Of Relentless Drought And Heat 10-15C Above Averages 3 hatrack Yesterday 22 hrs ago 5 270
Ring-Necked Parakeet Population In England An Estimated 15,000 Pairs, Producing New Pressure On Native Birds 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 6 242
2025 UK Survey Finds 646 Flowering Plant Species In Bloom During November-December Study Period 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 6 190
UNL Cuts Dept Of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences - NE Has Seen 26 Billion-Dollar Disasters Since 2005; 4 In Prior 20 Years 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 3 245
Onboard an expedition to study a massive, melting glacier in Antarctica - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Yesterday Yesterday 4 190
No More Plastic Bags at stores in California 9 Beringia Thursday Yesterday 7 375
Americans Know The Reality Of Warming, Even If Their Insane Government Won't Admit Its Existence 6 hatrack Thursday Thursday 14 339
2005 - Cabinet Ministers Explicitly Warned Australia's Right-Wing Government Of Warming Impacts; Nothing Really Changed 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 1 211
"They Didn't De-Extinct Anything" - No Substantial Differences Between "Dire Wolves" And Those Living In North America 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 11 398
Christmas Eve In Iceland - A Balmy High Of 68F, Highest Temperature For The Day On Record 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 331
England's Fire Services Dealt With 27,000 Fires In Forests, On Crop And Grasslands During 2025, Hottest Year On Record 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 214
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 applegrove Tuesday Tuesday 0 33
Engineered material uses light to destroy PFAS, other contaminants 2 OKIsItJustMe Monday Tuesday 9 294
GameChangers 2025: The Unstoppable Rise of Environmental Crime 0 douglas9 Tuesday Tuesday 3 290
Category '6' tropical cyclone hot spots are growing 0 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 5 261
Feedback loops accelerate warming, other atmospheric changes in Arctic 0 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 3 173
China mandates "No Fire, No Explosion" EV battery rule as 294 national standards finalized 0 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 3 211
European Energy energises Northern Europe's largest combined solar and battery park 0 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 3 169
Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere developed at the University of Helsinki 0 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 8 285
Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) Ingots 8 Finishline42 Sunday Monday 3 501
Nursing Home Explosion Kills More People than Died From Radiation at Fukushima But Not As Many As Died from Fear... 6 NNadir Saturday Monday 11 733
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first 4 marmar Monday Monday 13 367
AI data centers use so much energy and water: 11 applegrove Saturday Monday 16 580
George Monbiot: How One Conversation W. Joe Rogan & Mel Gibson Embodied Everything Stupid That Is America Today 5 hatrack Saturday Monday 12 616
More Than 180 Ski Resorts Have Closed In France Alone As Snow Continues Retreat To Higher Altitudes 2 hatrack Sunday Sunday 12 433
Scientists work to decode wolf howls in Yellowstone with AI technology - PBS NewsHour 8 Rhiannon12866 Saturday Sunday 8 349

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Too Bad, So Sad - Shitstain's Big Ag Bailouts, EPA's Speedy Pestcide Approvals Alienating Antivax MAHA Voters 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 14 406
Conservation Groups Acquire Nearly 3,000 Acres Of Near-Pristine TX Coastal Land To Protect Last Wild Whooping Cranes 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 15 372
Solar Energy from space...! 4 pbmus Saturday Sunday 14 617
How a company in landlocked Nebraska is helping fight plastic pollution in oceans - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Sunday Sunday 6 390
A great info hub... 2 2naSalit Saturday Saturday 12 337
America's biggest oil field is turning into a pressure cooker 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 26 Dec 26 5 426
How Bull Connor And George Wallace Wrenched Alabama Power Into The Rate-Hiking, Coal-Heavy Nightmare It Is Today 0 hatrack Dec 26 Dec 26 6 309
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump's 'green scam' claims 2 Eugene Dec 26 Dec 26 11 388
Chilean Govt & Tompkins Conservation Prep National Park Status For 500,000 Remote Acres In Southern Patagonia 0 hatrack Dec 25 Dec 25 5 260
Republicans aim to exempt major polluters from Pfas cleanup costs 0 Eugene Dec 24 Dec 24 7 297
West Antarctica's history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent's 'catastrophic' geology 1 marmar Dec 24 Dec 24 7 325
Ice Shelf Supporting Thwaites Glacier Has Lost Connection To Ocean Floor; Cracks In Positive Feedback Loop 1 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 36 891
Farmed Salmon Company Greenwashing With Sports Sponsorships & Beach Cleanups, And The Scots Are Not Having It 0 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 3 336
Concierge Disaster Recovery Services - Coming Soon To Fire/Flood-Hit Upscale Neighborhoods Near YOU!! 0 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 4 320
UK Met Office - 2025 "More Likely Than Not" To Break All-Time Records Set In 2022; Christmas Cold Snap May Intervene 0 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 1 191
NRC's Rushed Approval of Bill Gates' Experimental Wyoming Nuclear Reactor will Imperil Public Health, the Environment 9 OKIsItJustMe Dec 11 Dec 23 5 640
Regenerative Capitalism Will Save The Planet! And It's Based On Carbon Credits (Along With Massive Bank Loans) 2 hatrack Dec 23 Dec 23 4 354
"Climate Lysenkoism" - Michael Mann On Trump's Full-On Stalinist Approach To Climate Science And Reality 1 hatrack Dec 23 Dec 23 6 338
Trump halts East Coast projects in latest blow against wind power - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Dec 22 Dec 22 6 320
Why Finland's reindeer are dying by the thousands - CNN 4 TexasTowelie Dec 22 Dec 22 6 570
Whitmer Undoes Her Own Environmental Legacy By Backing (You Guessed It!) Tax Incentives For Data Centers 1 hatrack Dec 22 Dec 22 6 321
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 TexasTowelie Dec 22 Dec 22 0 142
SF Blackout Blocks Streets & Intersections With Paralyzed Waymo Cabs 1 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 8 438
Shocked, Shocked: Major UK Grocer Delays Net-Zero Plan For Another 15 Years (But It'll Be Great In 2050!) 2 hatrack Dec 17 Dec 21 4 325
For The 5th Time In 3 Years, Exxon & Pals Pushing SCOTUS For Liability Help; Also Pushing Congress For Legal Immunity 2 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 6 376
After Gutting Climate Laws In 2025, President Vought & Oval Office Assistant Try To Make Change Permanent In 2026 2 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 4 307
Their Clients Include BP, Aramco & Shell; Now They're Advising UK Arts Orgs On How To Justify Taking Oil & Gas Money 1 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 2 329
More Climate Leadership From Amazon! A Koch-Sponsored AI & Energy Conference Chock-Full Of Paid Climate Liars 0 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 5 317
Refreshing Honesty From LNG Exec: "Let's Plant A Few Trees And Call That An Offset, That Was All Bullshit" 0 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 4 319
At 2.0 - 2.5C Increase, Amazon Basin Hits Tipping Point; After That, 50-70% Of Forest Becomes Savannah,W. Global Impacts 0 hatrack Dec 21 Dec 21 2 247

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Application of the Oak Ridge Super Computer to Streamline Document Access at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant. 4 NNadir Dec 16 Dec 20 2 431
Deadline Moved To February 2026, But Colorado Basin States Meet, Decide Nothing; Mead at 33% Of Capacity, Powell At 28% 2 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 4 299
100s Of Hectares Of Greece's Iconic Fir Forests Dead Or Dying; Multi-Factor Stress, Including Warming, Is Moving Fast 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 10 410
After Shitstain Moved To Destroy Key Climate & Weather Lab, CO Senators Destroyed HHS & Defense Appropriations Bill 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 15 354
Global Temperature in 2025, 2026, 2027 - James Hansen et. al 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 19 Dec 19 3 295
Gas Exports Are Driving Up Americans' Energy Bills, Report Says 2 douglas9 Dec 19 Dec 19 5 336
Scientific Study: UK Government Must Prepare For "Plausible" Worst-Case Climate - 4C Hotter, Seas 2 Meters Higher 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 2 306
Analysis Suggests That Proposed UK Data Center Could Use Up To 50 Times As Much Water As Admitted 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 2 234
To Feed Data Centers, Pennsylvania Faces a New Fracking Surge 5 Brenda Dec 16 Dec 19 5 574
Plan To Build Extension Of Bilbao Guggenheim In UNESCO World Heritage Biosphere Reserve Scrapped After Local Opposition 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 5 214
Shitstain Orders Another Coal Power Plant To Remain Online To Meet "Energy Emergency" That Does Not Exist 0 hatrack Dec 19 Dec 19 5 304
How Organized Crime Threatens the Amazon's Uncontacted Tribes 2 douglas9 Dec 18 Dec 18 4 266
US Fish and Wildlife Service sees nearly 20% drop in staff since Trump took office 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 18 Dec 18 4 244
Study - CO2 Emitted By AI Industry Now Exceeds The Output Of New York City; Already 8% Of Global Aviation CO2 Output 0 hatrack Dec 18 Dec 18 9 341
UK Met Office Projects 2026 Temperatures At 1.4C Over Preindustrial Averages, Among 4 Hottest Yrs On Record 0 hatrack Dec 18 Dec 18 2 232
One Big Factor Driving Spiking Utility Prices - Expanding Exports Of American Natural Gas 2 hatrack Dec 18 Dec 18 5 337
Invasive Quagga Mussels Wreak Havoc In Lake Geneva, Slow Technology/Data Center To A Crawl 0 hatrack Dec 18 Dec 18 5 331
Woods Hole Study - Avg Rate of US Sea-Level Rise Has More Than Doubled Since 1900 0 hatrack Dec 18 Dec 18 4 298
Damn president is calling for NCAR to close! 3 Laffy Kat Dec 17 Dec 18 23 626
Northwest just finished warmest fall on record, scientists report 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 17 Dec 17 4 245
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