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Enormous cache of rare earth elements hidden inside coal ash waste, study suggests 1 Jim__ Nov 19 Nov 19 5 404
Study Suggests Atlantic Conveyer Current (AMOC) Will Lose 1/3 Of Volume At 2C Rise Over Preindustrial Temperatures 6 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 8 527
PR: SANY Renewable Energy Successfully Installs the 15-MW Onshore Wind Turbine 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 Nov 19 2 257
Oh Well!!! "Drill Baby Drill" Won't Happen, Because Oil Companies Manage For Profitability, Not Quantity 6 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 4 616
New Tech Tries to Catastrophe-Proof Your Home 0 question everything Nov 19 Nov 19 13 425
Autonomous hydrogen-powered mining truck achieves test successes in China 7 Caribbeans Nov 18 Nov 19 1 562
After Eight Toxic Well Blowouts Since 12/23, TX Rep Proposes Tax To Fund Cleanup, W. Vote Coming A Year From Now 2 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 5 423
"Graveyard Of Corals" In Northern GBR. Scientist: "Probably The Worst I Have Seen In Thirty Years" 1 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 5 376
Explosion at hydrogen fuel plant damages 60 nearby homes in Catawba County 9 NNadir Nov 15 Nov 19 4 809
How would Project 2025's energy implications manifest in Virginia? 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 18 Nov 19 7 361
PR: World's Largest Open-sea Offshore PV Project Begins Power Generation 1 OKIsItJustMe Nov 17 Nov 19 5 354
The Future World is NOW 1 SorellaLaBefana Nov 17 Nov 19 10 409
Open Sores On Fish In The Severn; Gee, I Wonder If Average Of 48 Sewage Dishcharges/Day Might Be Connected? 2 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 10 531
As Zambia Has Learned Even The Biggest Dams On The Biggest Rivers Don't Matter During Drought 1 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 4 379
Nature - Relying On Natural Carbon Sinks (Oceans, Forests) Won't Stop Warming, Will Help Nations Cheat On Emissions 0 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 4 311
WATCH LIVE: President Biden delivers remarks after making historic visit to Amazon rainforest in Brazil - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Nov 18 Nov 19 4 323
Hong Kong unveils action plan to become green maritime bunkering centre 0 Caribbeans Nov 19 Nov 19 1 246
University of Oxford: Redefining net zero will not stop global warming, new study shows 1 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 Nov 19 5 321
PR: Arctech's SkyWings Empowers the World's Largest Single-Capacity PV Power Plant Built on Coal Mining Subsidence Area 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 Nov 19 2 257
World's Largest Coral Discovered! - WION 2 TexasTowelie Nov 18 Nov 18 4 420
Oh Well!! UN 1.5C Goal "Deader Than A Doornail" - Climatologist Zeke Hausfather On Record-Crushing Temps In 2024 3 hatrack Nov 18 Nov 18 11 396
Burgum Arranged For Shitstain To Meet With O&G Execs For The $1 Billion Bribe Meeting; He Also Pimps "Carbon Capture" 3 hatrack Nov 16 Nov 18 6 425
BBC: Why Canada could become the next nuclear energy 'superpower' 12 OKIsItJustMe Nov 17 Nov 18 3 636
India's capital chokes as air pollution levels hit 50 times the safe limit 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 18 Nov 18 4 391
Oh Well!!! EPA Was (Possibly) Ready To Act On Permian Basin Ozone Pollution Gagging New Mexico. Not Any More!! 3 hatrack Nov 18 Nov 18 11 542
Attribution Science Grows In Power & Accuracy, Clarifying Degree To Which Overall Warming Drives Individual Disasters 0 hatrack Nov 18 Nov 18 8 310
NASA Satellites Reveal Abrupt Drop in Global Freshwater Levels 3 OKIsItJustMe Nov 17 Nov 18 22 705
Hydrogen Train: India's First Green Rail Revolution 4 Caribbeans Nov 17 Nov 17 2 370
'Game changer' in lithium extraction: Rice researchers develop novel electrochemical reactor 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 17 Nov 17 5 3940
IEEE: A New Fusion Prototype Floats Into Action OpenStar's levitating dipole device ditches the traditional doughnut... 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 17 Nov 17 3 310

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Oh Well!!! Shitstain Nominates Fracking Company CEO And Loud/Proud Climate Liar For Energy Secretary 4 hatrack Nov 16 Nov 17 8 618
'The sixth great extinction is happening', conservation expert warns 8 nitpicked Nov 16 Nov 17 28 1100
Rare Oarfish - Traditional Harbinger Of Tsunamis, Earthquakes And Doom - Washes Up In California 0 hatrack Nov 17 Nov 17 10 556
The role of climate change in an unusual outbreak of wildfires in the Northeast - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 17 Nov 17 4 377
Northeast Fires Continue; October Was The Driest Month On Record For NYC w. .87 Inches Of Rain; 4" Is The Historic Avg 1 hatrack Nov 16 Nov 16 9 327
Da-Da-DUM DUM DUM - Another House In The Drink! 6th Outer Banks Home Collapse Since May 2 hatrack Nov 16 Nov 16 15 643
Wildfire Season In The Northeast; Brooklyn Fire Snuffed, But New Jersey Wildfires Burn On 2 hatrack Nov 16 Nov 16 8 344
Not Just The Flames: Modern Houses Are Filled With Plastics, Filling Smoke With Toxins And Contaminating Burn Sites 3 hatrack Nov 16 Nov 16 9 417
Major UK Water Company Fighting To Block Access To Just How Much Sewage It Dumps In The Lake District 2 hatrack Nov 16 Nov 16 4 325
At Least 132 Oil Executives Get Red-Carpet Treatment In Baku W. Host Country Event Badges 1 hatrack Nov 16 Nov 16 4 364
"Carbon Capture" The Apparent Star Of CRAP29 W. 480 Lobbyists On Hand, Along W. 1,773 Oil, Gas & Coal Lobbyists 0 hatrack Nov 16 Nov 16 6 317
If Egg Prices Boosted Shitstain, Wait Until Real Climate Impacts Begin. Actually, You Don't Have To . . . 3 hatrack Nov 15 Nov 15 11 480
Hydrogen Goldmine? According to Scientists, This Billion-Year-Old Rift Could Provide Us a Near-Endless Supply of H2 1 Caribbeans Nov 15 Nov 15 12 572
Alaska scientists and policymakers look to hydrogen as power source of the future 0 Caribbeans Nov 15 Nov 15 1 275
Oh No!! PR Firms Warn That Shilling For Big Oil Might Hurt Their "Reputations" - Answer - More PR!! 1 hatrack Nov 15 Nov 15 7 431
Luksic Group Launches First Hydrogen-Powered Locomotive in South America, Powered by Chinese Fuel Cell 4 Caribbeans Nov 13 Nov 15 1 446
Key Phytoplankton Species Counts Down 20% In 80 Years; Rate Of Warming 10-30X Faster Than Last Ocean Warming Period 3 hatrack Nov 15 Nov 15 10 404
Four Business Owners Indicted for Smuggling, Illegally Importing Tens of Millions of Dollars in Emissions Defeat Devices 1 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 15 Nov 15 7 641
Oh Well!! Shitstain's EPA Nominee Chairs Bible-Thumping TX Fracking Billionaire's America First Policy Institute 1 hatrack Nov 15 Nov 15 2 427
Oh Well!! In Past 18 Months, Satellites Detected 1,200+ Huge Methane Leaks; 15 Have Been Fixed 1 hatrack Nov 15 Nov 15 2 288
COP29 hosts accused of detaining climate defenders 0 muriel_volestrangler Nov 15 Nov 15 4 295
Oh Well!! Oil Majors Were Warned - To Their Faces - Of CO2 Threat In 1954. They Responded With PR & Lies 0 hatrack Nov 15 Nov 15 10 335
President Biden Announces New Steps to Tackle the Climate Crisis and Lower Energy Costs - The White House 2 Rhiannon12866 Nov 15 Nov 15 8 424
Azerbaijan's Climate Irony - Eastern Express - TVP World 0 TexasTowelie Nov 14 Nov 14 2 230
Oh Well!! "Net-Zero" Banks' Commitments Since 2021 To FF Projects Will Produce CO2 Equal To 7 Years Of US Emissions 2 hatrack Nov 14 Nov 14 2 314
NYC on fire: FDNY battles large brush fire in Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan 0 cbabe Nov 14 Nov 14 4 430
Oh Well!! Non, Monsieur!! Paris Goal Of 1.5C Likely Off The Table, Study Shows; 2.7C Now Likely By 2100 7 hatrack Nov 14 Nov 14 5 469
Oh Well!! W. Shitstain 2.0 On The Horizon, Even Canada Is Looking Better On Climate As US Climate Influence Recedes 0 hatrack Nov 14 Nov 14 4 313
Oh Well!! President Shitstain's Climate Policy Increasingly Clear - Survival Of The Billionaire Bunker Residents 1 hatrack Nov 14 Nov 14 6 346
Oh Well!! Shit Climate Policies Over Next Four Years Could Eliminate $80 Billion In US Manufacturing & Energy Exports 0 hatrack Nov 14 Nov 14 6 325

Environment & Energy Continued...

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CRAP 29 Hijinks! Argentinian Delegation Ordered Home; Azeri President Insults France So French Ecology Minister Cancels 0 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 4 445
Global CO2 From Fossil Fuels To Set New Record In 2024 - 41 Billion Tons, Up 2% YOY, Not Including Drought, Fire Totals 4 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 8 411
Meat, oil and pesticide industry lobbyists turned out in record numbers at Cop16 0 Eugene Nov 13 Nov 13 3 415
Despite Conference Happy-Clappy, Next 6 Months Will See New FF Licenses Worth Another 15 Billion Tons Of Carbon 0 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 4 301
Clean Energy Transition Well Under Way! Coal/Gas/Oil Emissions Will Rise Another 0.8% In 2024; "No Sign" Of Shift 1 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 5 353
API Pushing Shitstain To Eliminate Fuel Economy Standards, California Air Quality Authority & Tax Cuts (Of Course!) 0 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 4 688
Storms Heading For Eastern Spain Less Powerful, But Ground Is Soaked; Political Shocks Continue 1 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 3 357
Action Was In Short Supply At Biodiversity Summit; Oil, Pesticide And Meat Lobbyists Weren't 0 hatrack Nov 13 Nov 13 2 324
What Trump's pick of Zeldin to lead EPA signals for his environmental plans - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 13 Nov 13 4 464
The Persistence of Environmental Injustice in a Putative ZEV Vehicle World in California. 0 NNadir Nov 12 Nov 12 2 301
Oh Well!! Dutch Appeals Court Rejects 2021 Ruling That Shell Must Cut Its GHG Output 3 hatrack Nov 12 Nov 12 8 405
Higher Evaporation Rates Powered By Record Heat Increasingly Key Factor In Western Droughts 2 hatrack Nov 11 Nov 12 10 444
Study: Total Global Costs Of Extreme Weather Over The Past Decade Total $2 Trillion; US Leads, Followed By China, India 3 hatrack Nov 11 Nov 12 3 355
Oh Well!! EPA Finalizes Rule To Fine O&G Companies For Methane Releases - It's Unlikely To Survive Shitstain's Return 0 hatrack Nov 12 Nov 12 8 353
Oh Well!! Scientists Find That Airborne Microplastics Can Create Clouds Where None Would Exist In Their Absence 0 hatrack Nov 12 Nov 12 8 404
Oh Well!! COP 29 Leaders Jam Through "Carbon Offsets" Plan With Slim-To-No Discussion On Day One Of Confab 0 hatrack Nov 12 Nov 12 5 360
More Comedy Gold From The NYT: Eloon May Be Able To Sway Shitstain To Favor Electric Cars 2 hatrack Nov 11 Nov 12 5 382
How Trump's election is impacting COP29, the U.N. Climate Change Conference - CBS News 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 11 Nov 11 2 294
On course for first breach of 1.5C global warming limit this year 1 nitpicked Nov 11 Nov 11 8 381
First emperor penguin known to reach Australia found on tourist beach 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 11 Nov 11 5 375
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