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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 147684
The E/E pocket reference guide [View all] 83 Dead_Parrot Feb 2012 Mar 2024 44 124076
German Engineers Packed Hydrogen Into Hollow Tractor Wheels. Now the Machines Run All Day Without Heavy Batteries 4 Caribbeans 15 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 18 900
Metrobus cancellations after hydrogen bus fire in Crawley 7 NNadir 9 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 2 329
Concentrated Solar Power finds a new Niche 3 thought crime 20 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 2 371
"Filthy", "Mind-Blowing", "Legally Problematic" - Federal Judge's Take On Proposed Bayer Roundup Settlement 3 hatrack 10 hrs ago 8 hrs ago 11 373
Multiple Large-Scale "Carbon Capture" Projects Slated For Illinois; Increasingly, Residents Aren't Buying The Story 3 hatrack 10 hrs ago 8 hrs ago 5 298
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... 2 NNadir 9 hrs ago 9 hrs ago 8 305
World's largest nuclear facility could be built in Ontario with new $300M deal 5 OnlinePoker Thursday 10 hrs ago 2 301
Toxic Heavy Metals - Tungsten, Selenium, Arsenic - Concentrating In San Luis Valley Water Supply As Drought Stretches On 1 hatrack 10 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 3 233
Superfund Sites In New Jersey Awaiting Cleanup For 40 Years Or More; W. EPA Gutted, Remediation Grinding To A Halt 0 hatrack 10 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 5 196
Senior Interior Official Flat-Out Said Changes In Federal Grazing Policy Personally Enriched Her - 6 Months Ago 0 hatrack 10 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 5 231
The disaster unfolding on Russia's Black Sea coast is of its own making 0 mahatmakanejeeves 17 hrs ago 17 hrs ago 4 375
Um, delicious!!! Recovery of Highly Toxic Tellurium Used for Super Efficient Solar Cells. 0 NNadir 20 hrs ago 20 hrs ago 1 299
War. What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing. But... 0 thought crime 20 hrs ago 20 hrs ago 0 250
'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds 16 OKIsItJustMe Monday 21 hrs ago 13 833
NOAA/ESRL - April 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content: 431.12 ppm; April 2025 429.64 ppm; April 2024 426.51 ppm 6 hatrack Yesterday 23 hrs ago 1 264
Antarctica sea ice collapse driven by triple whammy of climate chaos, scientists find 1 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday 23 hrs ago 8 301
New solar cells hit 30% efficiency and still work after 1,000 hours of power 3 Caribbeans Thursday Yesterday 6 381
Saskatchewan's plan to extend life of coal power to cost $26B over 25 years: NDP 0 OnlinePoker Yesterday Yesterday 1 229
Trump's crackdown on China-linked solar firms stalls U.S. factory boom 0 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday Yesterday 5 281
Airline emissions in Europe top pre-Covid levels despite pledge to decarbonise 0 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday Yesterday 1 245
EU purchases from Russia's largest natural gas field hit record 3bn (pounds) 0 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday Yesterday 1 236
Nutrient imbalance may drive coral disease more than heat stress, new study suggests 0 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday Yesterday 3 185
New Material Technology Boasts High-Performance Carbon Dioxide Absorption 0 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday Yesterday 2 193
Turning plastic waste into clean fuel using sunlight 1 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday Yesterday 8 289
Brilliant idea for ocean based power generation on front page of the Financial Times yesterday 32 Pluvious Wednesday Yesterday 44 2122
The Pentagon is delaying wind power development -- even on private land 4 applegrove Thursday Thursday 9 402
'Indian Nino' Drove Record Heat in 2023 and 2024, New UMD Study Finds 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 4 236
Hidden methane emerging from beneath the ice reveals Greenland's sensitivity to climate change 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 4 294

Environment & Energy Continued...

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How trees in urban areas are key to cooling down a warmer world 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 5 291
Study Projects Plant Extinction Rates Through 2100. (7% to 16% of global plant species at high risk of extinction) 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 4 255
Forest Fuel Treatments Reduce Wildfire Spread, Prevent $2.8 Billion in Damage 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 6 400
When faith meets a melting point: New study warns Hajj pilgrimage is breaching human survivability limits 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 9 427
Scientists stunned: Volcano cleans up after itself by removing methane from the air 2 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 6 465
Rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelves may cause global sea levels to rise far faster than expected - new study 3 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 4 311
Deforestation lessens Amazon rainfall, and climate change hastens that process 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 4 210
Odds Improve For The El Nino Currently Building In The Pacific To Be The Hottest Ever Recorded 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 419
China's Green Hydrogen Production Capacity Surpasses 1.1 Million Tons 1 Caribbeans Tuesday Thursday 2 288
Norway Prepares To Meet A Climate-Shattered Future By . . . Extending Natural Gas Production Until 2048!!! 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 4 329
Who Will Decide Whether Roundup Requires Cancer Warnings? The 9 Toxicologists Of The Supreme Court, Of Course 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 310
Imagine falling off the roof of a 565 foot building. 5 hunter Saturday Thursday 6 809
A Discussion, Written Before the War, of the Properties of Ukrainian Used Nuclear Fuel in a Russian Journal. 3 NNadir Tuesday Thursday 3 324
Oregon's 2026 Fire Season Began In March; It's Expected To End Sometime In October 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 0 222
Mexico City Sinking At Rate Of Up To 2 Cm/month, As Revealed By New NASA Orbital Radar System 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 4 277
Pushback To Car Bloat May Be Growing In Europe As Popularity Of American Testosterone Shitwagons Grows 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 486
Electrification and energy efficiency 1 thought crime Tuesday Wednesday 5 346
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 10 459
Ford Just Wrote Off $20 Billion In Dumped EV Investments, But Swears An "Affordable" EV Pickup On Its Way 2 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 6 460
Corporate Grain & Fertilizer Insiders Bank $66 Milliion From Shares Sold Since Iran War Jacked Up Price Of Everything 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 287
For 60 Years, Texas Legislature Rejected Over 60 Flood Safety Bills Limiting Development In Known Flood Zones 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 6 481
August 2025 Rockslide Tsunami Reached 1,500+ Feet In Height In Alaskan Fjord Routinely Visited By Cruise Ships 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 7 492
Is Trump's DOJ Now Big Oil's Personal Law Firm? - Thom Hartmann 0 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 7 258
"It's Coming:" Energy Expert on Iran Oil Shock's Impact on U.S. - Amanpour and Company PBS 0 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 6 358
Put a Roof on it. 5 thought crime Tuesday Tuesday 11 509
Did you find an animal nesting near your house? Here's what to do 5 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Tuesday 13 694
Thousands of Americans warned to 'shut windows now' as plume of 'hazardous' air engulfs Arizona 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday Tuesday 14 609
'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds 2 JBTaurus83 Tuesday Tuesday 10 444
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a plastic trash nightmare. It could also be part of a much bigger, hidden problem 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday Tuesday 18 469
AI falls short in predicting weather extremes 3 OKIsItJustMe Monday Tuesday 6 401

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Operando Monitoring of Plutonium on Ion Exchange Columns Using UV/Vis/NIR Spectroscopy. 0 NNadir Tuesday Tuesday 3 351
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 432.44 ppm 14 NNadir Sunday Tuesday 6 1011
Why the Trump administration is paying billions to abandon wind farms - PBS NewsHour 4 Rhiannon12866 Tuesday Tuesday 4 374
Coastal Louisiana Facing Up To 23 Feet Of Sea Level Rise; "In Paleo-Climate Terms, New Orleans Is Already Gone" 4 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 11 476
Actual Methane Releases From Australian Coal Mines More Than Double Official Government Estimates 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 5 284
IEA - Methane Leaks Still At/Near Record Highs In 2025; Turkmenistan In The Lead, But Texas Among Top Ten Leakers 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 4 265
Impact of budget cuts on Natl parks..Yosemite visitor numbers explode as park does away with reservation system 3 BlueWaveNeverEnd Monday Tuesday 15 613
Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to 'raw sewage of millions of people' 1 Eugene Tuesday Tuesday 10 387
Iran war gives small boost to thermal coal, further gains possible 1 mahatmakanejeeves Tuesday Tuesday 2 243
Hyundai Accelerates Supply of Hydrogen City Buses Targeting 400 Units in Seoul 11 OKIsItJustMe Sunday Monday 3 606
Towngas launches Hong Kong's first hydrogen-powered EV charging system for a commercial building 5 Caribbeans Sunday Monday 3 457
Climate Scientist James Hansen on, um, Religion. 23 NNadir May 1 Monday 1 1394
The countdown to 2030 0 OKIsItJustMe Sunday Sunday 3 317
Solar ranch in Tennessee aims to prove grazing cattle under the panels is a farmland win-win 4 OKIsItJustMe May 1 Sunday 41 1082
UK Airlines Get Go-Ahead To Cancel/Consolidate Flights And Routes As Fuel Supply Dictates This Summer 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 371
2 Buses, 3 Hours, 13 Miles - How Americans In "Transit Deserts" Get Groceries Without Cars 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 19 574
India to see above-average number of heatwave days in May as energy demand surges 0 OKIsItJustMe Sunday Sunday 1 303
How LNG interests are seeking to disrupt global talks on decarbonising shipping 0 OKIsItJustMe Saturday Saturday 2 347
Commonwealth Fusion Systems - Our SPARC fusion facility is now about 75% done. Take a virtual tour of the progress 0 OKIsItJustMe Saturday Saturday 2 509
Tornado Alley Is MOVING and That's a HUGE Problem 5 Uncle Joe Saturday Saturday 17 1127
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