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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 124414
The E/E pocket reference guide [View all] 83 Dead_Parrot Feb 2012 Mar 2024 43 109499
Gas Exports Are Driving Up Americans' Energy Bills, Report Says 1 douglas9 1 hr ago 45 min ago 2 133
Scientific Study: UK Government Must Prepare For "Plausible" Worst-Case Climate - 4C Hotter, Seas 2 Meters Higher 0 hatrack 2 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 0 120
Analysis Suggests That Proposed UK Data Center Could Use Up To 50 Times As Much Water As Admitted 0 hatrack 2 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 0 100
To Feed Data Centers, Pennsylvania Faces a New Fracking Surge 5 Brenda Tuesday 2 hrs ago 5 320
Plan To Build Extension Of Bilbao Guggenheim In UNESCO World Heritage Biosphere Reserve Scrapped After Local Opposition 0 hatrack 2 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 4 94
Shitstain Orders Another Coal Power Plant To Remain Online To Meet "Energy Emergency" That Does Not Exist 0 hatrack 2 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 3 140
How Organized Crime Threatens the Amazon's Uncontacted Tribes 2 douglas9 20 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 4 136
US Fish and Wildlife Service sees nearly 20% drop in staff since Trump took office 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 18 hrs ago 18 hrs ago 4 134
Study - CO2 Emitted By AI Industry Now Exceeds The Output Of New York City; Already 8% Of Global Aviation CO2 Output 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 9 185
UK Met Office Projects 2026 Temperatures At 1.4C Over Preindustrial Averages, Among 4 Hottest Yrs On Record 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 2 128
One Big Factor Driving Spiking Utility Prices - Expanding Exports Of American Natural Gas 2 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 5 225
Invasive Quagga Mussels Wreak Havoc In Lake Geneva, Slow Technology/Data Center To A Crawl 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 5 219
Woods Hole Study - Avg Rate of US Sea-Level Rise Has More Than Doubled Since 1900 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 4 178
Damn president is calling for NCAR to close! 3 Laffy Kat Wednesday Yesterday 23 468
Northwest just finished warmest fall on record, scientists report 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 4 136
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado 5 douglas9 Wednesday Wednesday 7 602
The Arctic Is in Dire Straits, 20 Years of Reporting Show 2 douglas9 Wednesday Wednesday 34 638
Shocked, Shocked: Major UK Grocer Delays Net-Zero Plan For Another 15 Years (But It'll Be Great In 2050!) 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 195
Bipartisan Michigan Bill Would Repeal Incentives For Data Centers Passed In 2024 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 150
10/24 - 9/25 - Arctic Temperatures Highest In 125 Year Instrumental Record; 10/10 Hottest Years In Last 10 Years 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 150
European Alps' Glaciers Will Hit Peak Loss Rate By 2033; More Than 100 Will Have Disappeared By That Date 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 6 152
Scientists At Rutgers Marine Research Station Film The Destruction Of Their Own Facility By Rising Ocean 2 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 252
130-Year-Old Dam Indian Dam Straining Under Pressure Of A Whole New Climate; 75,000 In Path Of Possible Flood 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 285
Application of the Oak Ridge Super Computer to Streamline Document Access at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant. 2 NNadir Tuesday Tuesday 2 212
From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expected 1 marmar Tuesday Tuesday 12 278
The Next El Nino (bad news) 1 Brenda Tuesday Tuesday 8 369
Dynamite Blasts and Paradise Lost 2 douglas9 Tuesday Tuesday 8 256
My Snow Blower Batteries Are in the Garage Recharging. Guess What Isn't Charging Them on the PJM Grid? 4 NNadir Sunday Monday 4 553

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Anyone experienced with desalination of brackish groundwater? 6 surfered Sunday Monday 1 315
Eight UK Universities Commit To Cut Recruiting Ties With Fossil Fuel Industries; 12% Of UK Institutions Have Done So 0 hatrack Monday Monday 3 198
Fracking Chickens Come Home To Groundwater Roost In Permian Basin As Ground Shifts And Toxins Erupt From Abandoned Wells 0 hatrack Monday Monday 17 492
Veteran environmental legislator David Bulova selected as Virginia's next resources secretary 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 2 193
NRC's Rushed Approval of Bill Gates' Experimental Wyoming Nuclear Reactor will Imperil Public Health, the Environment 5 OKIsItJustMe Dec 11 Sunday 4 383
A BOE Estimate of Deaths Connected with Coal Combustion in Wyoming. 4 NNadir Dec 11 Sunday 3 522
2025: The Year the US Gave Up On Climate, and the World Gave Up On Us 1 douglas9 Sunday Sunday 9 376
Murkowski "Concerned" W. New Plan To Open Nearly All Of Offshore Alaska To Oil Drilling 8 hatrack Dec 7 Sunday 9 522
States W. Deepest Cuts To Environmental Protection Programs 2010-24: MS - 71%; SD - 61%; AL - 49%; TX - 33%; MT - 32% 1 hatrack Dec 11 Saturday 7 351
A silent ocean pandemic is wiping out sea urchins worldwide 1 OKIsItJustMe Saturday Saturday 12 1547
A new approach to carbon capture could slash costs 0 OKIsItJustMe Saturday Saturday 4 233
EPA erases human-induced climate change from its webpages: 2 applegrove Dec 10 Saturday 6 277
Judge blocks massive logging project in southern Montana 1 douglas9 Friday Friday 10 337
Sharks and rays get a major win with new international trade limits for 70+ species 1 marmar Friday Friday 7 236
WH Abruptly Cancels Meeting On FEMA's Future After Leaked Report Showed Plans To Gut The Agency 4 hatrack Friday Friday 14 528
Analysis Of 25 Years Of Lies And Greenwashing On Climate Collapse From Four Of Planet's Biggest Oil & Gas Companies 1 hatrack Friday Friday 10 370
Opposition To Climate Risk Ratings For Real Estate Listings Exemplifies The "La La La La I Can't Hear You!!!" Era 1 hatrack Friday Friday 8 317
Nearly 80,000 Residents Under Evacuation Orders In Washington; Skagit River Valley Facing "Historic" Flooding 0 hatrack Friday Friday 3 321
Inside the Minds of People Who Knowingly Destroy the Planet ("Green Crime" - a book by a *Criminal Psychologist*) PsyTdy 0 eppur_se_muova Dec 11 Dec 11 6 309
2/3 Of Grazing On Public Land (For Next To Nothing) Benefits 10% Of Grazing Permit Holders, As Land Health Deteriorates 0 hatrack Dec 11 Dec 11 6 377
Fishing, Shipping & Hurricane Prediction Depend On NOAA's Ocean Buoy Network; Underfunded, It's At Risk Of Going Dark 0 hatrack Dec 11 Dec 11 7 284
After 60 Years Of Science, Last US Research Ship Leaves Antarctic Waters - Permanently; Potential Replacement Years Away 0 hatrack Dec 11 Dec 11 9 406
IAEA assesses Chornobyl drone damage 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 11 Dec 11 3 224
I notice the NREL study on creating a 100% clean grid by 2035 has been purged 7 OKIsItJustMe Dec 10 Dec 10 3 2128
First Fuel Produced for the Idaho National Lab's Experimental Molten Salt Reactor. 4 NNadir Dec 10 Dec 10 3 418
They reduce, we reduce: Perception of other countries' climate effort predicts support for climate policies 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 10 Dec 10 1 212
Excessive Heat Harms Young Children's Development, Study Suggests 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 10 Dec 10 1 194
2024 Set A Record for the Most Electricity Generated by Nuclear Power. 0 NNadir Dec 10 Dec 10 6 293
Caribbean Reefs Have Lost 48% Of Hard Corals Since 1980; 2023-24 Heatwave "Most Destructive Ever" In Region 1 hatrack Dec 9 Dec 9 7 349
Days After CRAP-30 Ended, Brazil Gutted Amazon Protections: Level A Forest? No Problem - We'll Legalize It Later! 0 hatrack Dec 9 Dec 9 9 433

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Copernicus: "Virtually Certain" That 2025 Will End Up As 2nd- Or 3rd-Hottest Year On Record 0 hatrack Dec 9 Dec 9 4 327
November 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content: 426.46 ppm; November 2024: 423.85 ppm; November 2023 420.46 ppm 6 hatrack Dec 8 Dec 9 8 391
UN environment report 'hijacked' by US and others over fossil fuels, top scientist says 0 muriel_volestrangler Dec 9 Dec 9 7 255
Streets Named After Birds Boom In UK - 356% For Skylarks, 156% For Starlings; Actual Bird Counts Continue To Collapse 2 hatrack Dec 6 Dec 8 6 267
A Rather Interesting Molten Salt. 2 NNadir Dec 7 Dec 7 4 508
A brown pelican 'feeding frenzy' is an encouraging sign for the often-struggling large seabirds 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 5 Dec 7 9 393
The Failed Construction Program for the Two Sumner Nuclear Reactors in South Carolina to Be Revived. 0 NNadir Dec 7 Dec 7 4 419
WMO Report - N. Africa And Arabian Peninsula Face Drought, Famine And Unsurvivable Heat From Global Warming 0 hatrack Dec 7 Dec 7 9 522
62,000 African Penguins Starving to Death Highlights Humanity-Driven Extinction Crisis 1 cbabe Dec 6 Dec 6 10 335
x-posted from GD: Glyphosate safety article retracted eight years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed in court 0 Eugene Dec 5 Dec 5 6 3362
Global Depression Is Coming Sooner Than Expected Peter Zeihan 3 OnlinePoker Dec 5 Dec 5 5 562
Adani Abandons Legal Action Against Oz Activist; Had Surveiled Him & Family, Demanded $600 Million In "Damages" 2 hatrack Dec 5 Dec 5 5 345
Australia Putting Its Limited Water Supply At The Service Of Explosive AI Datacenter Growth, Because Technologeeeeee 1 hatrack Dec 5 Dec 5 5 302
Two S. African Colonies Of Penguins Wiped Out By Starvation 2004-2012; 60,000 Birds Died When Sardines Disappeared 0 hatrack Dec 5 Dec 5 7 325
American Scientists Created CO2 Monitoring; NOAA Hosts 40% Of Planet's Sites; Other Countries Prep For This To End 1 hatrack Dec 5 Dec 5 6 321
Iran's record drought and cheap fuel have sparked an air pollution crisis - but the real causes run much deeper 1 littlemissmartypants Dec 5 Dec 5 7 793
Billion-Dollar Loss For UK Farmers This Year; 3 Of 5 Of The Worst Harvests On Record Have Happened Since 2020 1 hatrack Dec 4 Dec 5 4 308
Inside the climate group working everywhere but DC: 'You can still have huge wins' 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 4 Dec 4 2 269
For Decades, The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Emissions; Reality Was Far, Far Worse Than Anyone Had Anticipated 0 hatrack Dec 4 Dec 4 8 266
Other Than Alaska, New England Is The Fastest-Warming Region In The United States - 4.5F Warmer 1900 - 2024 1 hatrack Dec 4 Dec 4 1 286
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