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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 139766
The E/E pocket reference guide [View all] 83 Dead_Parrot Feb 2012 Mar 2024 44 119361
The sheep farmer who turned a 1800 call to coal giant AGL into a major solar grazing deal 1 usonian 7 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 7 257
Raptor Resource Project Baby Eagle Cam 0 littlemissmartypants 7 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 4 182
Starbucks Flogs Its Plastic Cups As "Widely Recyclable", But Only 1-2% Of Polypropylene Is Actually Ever Recycled 3 hatrack 23 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 6 349
David Suzuki: Still Fighting for the Planet at 90 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 16 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 6 229
Two Kona Storms Brought 50 Inches Of Rain To Oahu: "I've Never Seen Anything Like It" 1 hatrack Yesterday 23 hrs ago 7 330
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 430.93 ppm 4 NNadir Sunday Yesterday 7 383
Why gold prospectors in Switzerland extract gold from gravel pits - Focus on Europe - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Yesterday Yesterday 3 292
Trump is forcing coal plants to stay open. It could cost customers billions 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 4 284
Scotland runs on windpower and nothing else for a bit: 3 applegrove Sunday Sunday 17 390
How Trump Media Joined the Nuclear Industry's Quest to Create a Star on Earth 1 mahatmakanejeeves Sunday Sunday 3 267
A nice video about what I regard as the best thermal nuclear reactor ever designed and put into commercial service. 0 NNadir Sunday Sunday 3 356
UK Clears Extradition To US Of Israeli Hacker, Allegedly Hired By Exxon For Cyberattacks On Climate Activists & Orgs 2 hatrack Sunday Sunday 5 319
Kate Marvel, Prominent Climate Scientist At NASA/Goddard Institute, Resigns: "This Is All Under Threat Right Now" 2 hatrack Sunday Sunday 12 349
NY, HI, CA Propose Laws To Claw Back Skyrocketing Insurance Costs - Driven By Global Warming - From Oil & Gas Industry 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 2 281
Google, Others Buying Up Land In Nebraska For AI Sites & Power Plants, But It's OK Because "Carbon Capture" 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 6 330
15 Species Of Fish Washing Up Dead In Papua New Guinea, Including 1,000s Of Eyeless Herring; Residents Sickened By Water 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 8 358
At 2C Warming, Critical Food Insecurity Could Spread To 24 Countries, As Opposed To 8 Today 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 235
We now have to feed starving bees. What we have done to the ecosystem!!! 3 applegrove Saturday Saturday 17 439
California Is Choking on Traffic and One Potential Solution Is Effectively Illegal 1 BootinUp Saturday Saturday 8 560
100s Of North Sea Licenses Issued By The Tories From 2010 Through 2014 Have Produced 36 Days' Worth Of Gas For The UK 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 3 304
Energy "Emergency" Keeps Old Coal Plants Operating, Putting Indiana Utilities (i.e. Customers) On Hook For Millions 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 395
US Wildfires To Date In 2026 Already More Than Double The 10-Year Average: 15,000 Starts, 1.5 Million Acres Burned 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 380
Long Touted As Net-Zero "Carbon Capture" Project, Multistate CO2 Pipeline Now All About Pumping Additional Oil 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 311
China Still Addicted To Coal, Grid Additions Show - More Than 50 1-Gigawatt Or Larger Plants Came Online In 2024 Alone 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 3 252
New Oil Major Approach - Yes, Global Warming Is Real - Kind Of - But Not Our Fault, What About Your Science Bias, Huh?? 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 321
Our forests: 0 applegrove Friday Friday 11 270
Extreme global climate outcomes are possible even at 2C of warming 18 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Friday 5 691
Time to Wake Up #305: Lyin' Lee Zeldin - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 4 Rhiannon12866 Thursday Friday 5 407

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Wind and solar generated a record 17% of U.S. electricity in 2025 6 Caribbeans Wednesday Thursday 5 417
What advice would you give to a young person considering a career in nuclear? 2 NNadir Thursday Thursday 2 476
2025 Was UK's Driest Spring For 100 Years, But That Didn't Prevent 300,000 Raw Sewage "Storm Overflows" From Water Firms 3 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 325
EPA Administrator Zeldin To Deliver Opening Speech For Climate Liar Central, AKA Heartland Institute, Next Month 2 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 315
Dengue Exploding Globally: Worldwide Cases 500,000 In 2000; 14 Million Cases In 2024, W. 9,000 Deaths 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 12 374
Experiment Begun In 1991 Added 2C Heat To Rocky Mountain Meadow; It Transformed Test Plot To Desert Scrub 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 14 412
Study links past emissions to trillions in future economic damages 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 3 263
Well, duh. German energy minister calls nuclear phase-out 'huge mistake.' 1 NNadir Wednesday Wednesday 5 445
Demand-Side Opportunities for Process Industry Participation in Electricity Markets 2 NNadir Tuesday Wednesday 2 476
Multiscale Mechanistic Insights into Hydrogen Production from Microalgae via Molten Hydroxide-Mediated Thermochemical... 6 NNadir Mar 20 Wednesday 2 749
Lincolnshire Residents Hit By Multiple Floods Have Had It W. Reform MP And Climate Liar They Elected 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 451
Trump Toadies Pleading W. Oil Majors To Drill Baby Drill: BP: "There Is No Potential Supply Response" 2 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 434
Thanks To Explosive Wildfires And Dust, The Majority Of Earth's People Breathed Unhealthy Air In 2024 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 316
'How Successful Has The ESA Been?': Whitehouse Asks Wildlife Expert About Endangered Species Act - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 3 312
Record-smashing heat continues: 'Basically the entire U.S. is going to be hot' 4 OKIsItJustMe Mar 23 Tuesday 11 479
Pacific Northwest scientist David Suzuki fears the climate damage we've caused is now past a grave tipping poiny 6 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday Tuesday 16 574
Aviation chiefs warn Europe is unprepared and underinvested in face of wildfire surge, according to new report ... 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 5 276
African coastlines face unprecedented sea level surge crisis 8 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 3 352
From Tropics to Poles: How Pacific Ocean Warming Sets the Stage for Antarctic Stratospheric Changes Months Later 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 6 291
Uganda reintroduces rhinos into a protected area where they have been extinct since 1983 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday Tuesday 10 274
Warming coastal waters primary driver of large-scale humid heatwaves 2 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 7 340
UN: Vital Freshwater Fish Migrations are Collapsing 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 4 205
Climate change and the private solution trap 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 5 297
DOE Pushing New Coal Plant In Alaska Because AI; It'll Use Lignite From A Coal Mine That Doesn't Exist 6 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 518
Shitstain Accidently Does The Right Thing: $1 Billion In "Carbon Capture" Projects Remain In Limbo 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 4 445
Far more countries face critical food insecurity if world heats up by 2C, analysis shows 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 2 205
Warmest Winter Ever In 6 Western States; Temps In 50s And 60s Across Rockies Last Week, Even Above 10,000 Feet 1 hatrack Mar 23 Mar 23 5 354
First New Nuclear Reactor Constructed at Idaho National Lab in 50 Years to Go Critical. 6 NNadir Mar 22 Mar 23 6 643
Colorado Basin States Resume Water Negotiations; Focus Largely On Short-Term, Stopgap Measures 1 hatrack Mar 23 Mar 23 6 286
UN weather agency warns of record 'climate imbalance' as planetary warming accelerates 2 OKIsItJustMe Mar 23 Mar 23 8 456

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Nebraska Fires Surpass 700,000 Acres, Though Now Largely Contained; Biggest One Is The Biggest Fire In State History 0 hatrack Mar 22 Mar 22 6 470
Beavers create carbon sinks when they dam. 1 applegrove Mar 22 Mar 22 5 363
150+ Daily Temperature Records And 50 All-Time Monthly Records Broken Since Tuesday As Heatwave Continues, Spreads 4 hatrack Mar 22 Mar 22 12 475
Floating wetlands boost water quality, slash greenhouse emissions 2 highplainsdem Mar 21 Mar 22 9 396
Northern Australia Dealing With Its Fifth Declared Disaster In A Single Wet Season - This Is What Climate Collapse Does 1 hatrack Mar 22 Mar 22 8 559
5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds 3 littlemissmartypants Mar 22 Mar 22 5 397
Nuclear Fuel: The Most Sophisticated Industrial Product You've Never Learned About 0 NNadir Mar 21 Mar 21 2 317
Old growth forests store way more carbon: 2 applegrove Mar 21 Mar 21 5 353
Researchers at U of W have figured out how to turn plastic waste into acetic acid (...vinegar) using the sun 3 applegrove Mar 20 Mar 21 11 459
Permian Basin Methane Leaks 4X EPA Estimates For 2024-25; Sen. Whitehouse In Pursuit Of Additional Data 2 hatrack Mar 21 Mar 21 15 430
Global Dengue Cases Doubled In 2024 From 2023 To 12 Million; Study Links Surge To Extreme Rain From Climate Breakdown 1 hatrack Mar 21 Mar 21 8 319
Susan Collins Cannot (Alas!) Be Bothered To Even Appear "Concerned" When It Comes To A Collapsing Climate 1 hatrack Mar 21 Mar 21 17 504
New Coal Seam Gas Project In Queensland Will Produce 120 Million Tons Of CO2 - It Will Operate Through 2081 4 hatrack Mar 20 Mar 20 4 376
Cancer risk may increase with proximity to nuclear power plants -- Harvard 6 Caribbeans Mar 20 Mar 20 3 582
110F Recorded In Yuma Desert In Arizona; Highest March Temperature On Record In The United States 2 hatrack Mar 20 Mar 20 8 420
Vietnam accelerates shift to ethanol fuel as Iran war drives up energy prices 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 20 Mar 20 3 288
Five disasters in a single wet season show the climate crisis is here and now in the Northern Territory (of Australia) 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 20 Mar 20 6 320
US Western Heatwave Pushing Temperatures Up To 30F Higher Than Normal; "Virtually Impossible" w/o Global Warming 4 hatrack Mar 20 Mar 20 12 436
Climate variability poses a threat to cold blooded animals 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 20 Mar 20 7 307
Old-growth forests store a lot more carbon than managed forests 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 20 Mar 20 5 296
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