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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 114645
The E/E pocket reference guide [View all] 83 Dead_Parrot Feb 2012 Mar 2024 43 103408
We're Deep Frying The Rainforest - Climate Town 1 Escaped Floridian 8 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 6 236
Alpha-Gal Syndrome, Carried By Expanding Tick Populations, Has Gone From Dozens Of Cases In 2009 To 450,000 Today 40 hatrack Sunday 5 hrs ago 62 2811
When Will Extreme Heat Become Unlivable? 7 Uncle Joe 18 hrs ago 6 hrs ago 15 600
Heatwave record broken at an altitude of over 3.1 miles in the Alps. 2 Tonk 9 hrs ago 7 hrs ago 6 301
Zhangjiagang powered up with hydrogen. East China city using clean energy to support public transport 2 Caribbeans 17 hrs ago 8 hrs ago 1 166
What Will Our World Look Like at 4 Degrees? 0 Uncle Joe 18 hrs ago 18 hrs ago 10 419
An All-Out Attack on our Forests and Wildlife 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday 23 hrs ago 4 272
Last-minute changes to Trump's 'big, beautiful bill' stun clean energy industry (and Elon Musk) 2 Eugene Yesterday 23 hrs ago 7 437
The Indian monsoon has now covered the entire country, just over a week earlier than average 1 OnlinePoker Yesterday Yesterday 6 282
Under Current Trends, 70% Of Amazon Basin Rainforest Will Shift To Savannah When We Destroy 20-25% Of Its Historic Area 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 8 219
A Mysterious Blob of Cold Water Defies Ocean Heat - Now We Know Why 2 Judi Lynn Yesterday Yesterday 17 544
Oh No!! The Giant Pile Of Shit Bill Will Hurt Growth Of Data Centers And AI By Making Energy More Expensive!! 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 6 279
This message was self-deleted by its author 1 red dog 1 Sunday Sunday 1 296
All Together Now! Microplastic Pollution, Ocean Acidification, Halogenated Methanes, Ozone Collapse... Delicious! 5 NNadir Sunday Sunday 10 452
"World's First Hydrogen Helicopter Takes Off": Historic Flight Just Changed Aviation Forever & Left Engineers Speechless 3 Caribbeans Saturday Sunday 4 398
Mexico's President Threatens Eloon Over Debris Falls And Contamination From His Exploding Rockets 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 10 314
Daily Heat Records Set On Tuesday Alone For At Least 50 Cities Just In The Eastern US As Heatwave Clamped Down 5 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 956
Heat Emergencies Declared Across Western Europe; Temps In Spain & Portugal Pushing 108F 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 9 286
Google Is So Very Green That Their CO2 Pollution Has Risen 51% In Just 6 Years - Thanks, AI!!! 7 hatrack Saturday Saturday 24 889
Separations of Actinides and Lanthanides From Used Nuclear Fuel with Destructible Ligands. 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 3 206
A Non-Ablative Composite Refractory Material Tolerant To Temperatures Up to 2000 Degrees Centigrade. 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 3 263
Cutting Energy Efficiency Home Tax Credits Would Save $21 Billion, So Let's Add $18 Billion In New Oil & Gas Tax Breaks 2 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 307
Upper Atmosphere Cooling Rapidly; Stratosphere Lost 1% Of Its Depth (1,300 Feet) Since 1980 0 hatrack Friday Friday 2 268
Climate Talks Shaping Up As The Mother Of All Shitshows; No Commitments, No Money, No Place To Stay In Belem 0 hatrack Friday Friday 1 250
Post-Harvest Air Pollution In N. India Directly Responsible For 100s/1,000s Of Deaths In Multiple Cities 0 hatrack Friday Friday 1 206
British Antarctic Survey Scientist Dr. Louise Sime On Antarctic Tipping Points, 2023's 5-Sigma Sea Ice Loss 0 hatrack Friday Friday 3 216
Top 5 Whale Scenes BBC Earth 2 Uncle Joe Friday Friday 12 356
Washington State Is Getting Hydrogen Fuel And It's Nine Times Cheaper Than California's 0 Caribbeans Friday Friday 2 250

Environment & Energy Continued...

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The desert is getting too hot for the saguaro cactus 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday Friday 11 470
Shipping is one of the world's dirtiest industries - could this invention finally clean up cargo fleets? 2 jgo Friday Friday 6 357
Toxic algae blooms are lasting longer in Lake Erie − why that's a worry for people and pets 0 Diamond_Dog Friday Friday 2 235
"Hydrogen Just Got Cheaper Than Ever": New Solar Reactor Breakthrough Crushes Electrolysis Costs, Redefines Clean Energy 5 Caribbeans Thursday Friday 3 385
"Climate Impacts Aren't Better Conditions For Vineyards In Kent, They're Broad-Spectrum Enshittification" 0 hatrack Friday Friday 6 271
2024 Antarctic Voyage Shows Freshening Seas, Microplastics Everywhere, Penguin Chicks Dying In Rainstorms 1 hatrack Friday Friday 9 702
Climate Collapse Driving Early Arrival Of Midsummer Heat; IOW, June Is Now July 0 hatrack Friday Friday 8 287
Giant Sequoias Are Taking Root in an Unexpected Place: Detroit 10 Judi Lynn Thursday Friday 23 637
Sweltering Heat At This Years Matches May Preview Extreme Conditions At 2026 World Cup 0 hatrack Friday Friday 2 219
Hitachi Energy's HyFlex hydrogen-powered generator is gaining international recognition, earning two major awards 0 Caribbeans Thursday Thursday 1 306
Commuter traffic stops for whales on Australia's humpback highway 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Thursday Thursday 8 381
Another Hydrogen Perpetual Motion Machine, Steam Reforming of Methanol to Make Hydrogen. 2 NNadir Tuesday Thursday 0 253
In the Arizona desert, a farm raising fish raises questions about water use 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Thursday 5 624
The New York Governors Cuomo, Governor Hochul, and the Environment. 2 NNadir Wednesday Thursday 2 269
In South Africa, a Smart Gate Could Help Connect Elephants' Fragmented Habitat 0 Judi Lynn Thursday Thursday 5 218
Senator Whitehouse on Trump's EPA: "A Cesspool of Fossil Fuel-Driven Corruption" - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 13 304
Bio-stimulated hydrogen production - Gold H2's Subsurface Hydrogen Breakthrough Could Rewrite Clean Energy Economics 1 Caribbeans Wednesday Wednesday 2 262
Hydrogen Fuel Cells Take the Wheel: FAW Hongqi Cuts Hydrogen Use by 15% in Breakthrough 0 Caribbeans Wednesday Wednesday 2 213
Paterson NJ Fire Chief Declared A Mass Casualty Event At HS Graduation Monday; 150+ Heat-Related Illnesses 5 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 14 443
US Forest Service plans to repeal rule that has blocked logging and mining across the West 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 3 286
"Cancer Is Just Everywhere" - Iowa 1 Of 2 US States Where Cancer Is Increasing; Is Industrial Ag Part Of The Reason? 2 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 13 462
Major Australian Retirement Fund Claims "Net Zero" While Becoming Whitehaven Coal's 2nd- Biggest Shareholder 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 4 248
"Death By 1,000 Cuts" - Max Temperature Increase For Coral Reef Survival 1-1.5C, And We're Already Topping Out 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 270
Dr. Genevieve Gunther On Tipping Points, Doomerism And How Badly Nordhaus Missed The Mark On Economic Impacts 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 306
Beyond 80N, Lightning Storms Increase From +/- 100 Per Year In The Early 2010s To More Than 7,000 Today 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 348
Well, Well - Spain/Portugal Blackout In April Was Caused By Failures At Conventional Plants , Not By Renewables 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 329
Eminent Domain Land Grab - petition 2 evemac Jun 21 Wednesday 7 385
Andrea becomes the first tropical storm of the Atlantic season 0 OnlinePoker Tuesday Tuesday 3 383
Wheat, Barley, Soy Output Projected To Fall As Earth Warms, Particularly In US, Ukraine, Russia, China 3 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 342
Trump rescinds protections on 59m acres of national forest to allow logging 5 cbabe Tuesday Tuesday 9 577

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Wisconsin Supreme Court delivers win for environmentalists in fight over 'forever chemicals' 0 Eugene Tuesday Tuesday 2 289
Q: "Why Is Big Tech Investing Billions In Fusion?" A: Because They Like Burning Money On Shiny Bullshit Like AI 8 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 528
Climate Change 0 surfered Tuesday Tuesday 2 258
TX Faces $150 Billion+ Bill For Water Infrastructure Through 2075, So Sales Tax Will Fund $1 Billion/Year For 20 Years 5 hatrack Jun 23 Tuesday 4 360
Sen. Whitehouse Dives Into the Fossil Fuel-Funded RAGA Scheme: An "Industry Masked as Government" - Senator Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Tuesday Tuesday 4 349
Chinese scientists set new efficiency record for solar-to-hydrogen conversion 2 Caribbeans Jun 23 Jun 23 2 1233
404 Media: 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community 10 OKIsItJustMe Jun 23 Jun 23 18 865
Green Hydrogen Plans Evaporate; Projects Fold, PlugShare Deeply In Debt, AI Driving Demand For Cheapest Possible Energy 3 hatrack Jun 23 Jun 23 4 320
Advanced AI models generate up to 50 times more CO₂ emissions than more common LLMs when answering the same questions 5 littlemissmartypants Jun 21 Jun 23 8 383
Northern Virginia data centers have topped 4,900 megawatts. What does that mean? 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 23 Jun 23 10 440
US Skips Bonn Climate Conference, Since They Can Shit All Over Discussions During Brazil Summit In December 1 hatrack Jun 23 Jun 23 8 306
"I Feel Like I've Been Lied To" Says TX Chiropractor Who Got Violently Ill From Measles 10 hatrack Jun 22 Jun 23 12 855
10s Of Millions Face Deadly Conditions In Rare June Heatwave; Indices In The Low Hundreds In Multiple Cities 2 hatrack Jun 22 Jun 22 10 420
India Launches First 5 Commercial Hydrogen Fuel Cell Buses In Leh, Ladakh 0 Caribbeans Jun 21 Jun 21 0 220
Historic land deal halts mine planned next to Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp 0 Pinback Jun 21 Jun 21 4 279
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 littlemissmartypants Jun 21 Jun 21 0 134
NPR: In 'Human Nature,' author Kate Marvel explores climate change through nine emotions 0 OKIsItJustMe Jun 21 Jun 21 3 433
Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe 0 douglas9 Jun 21 Jun 21 8 281
Good meme to share: 0 applegrove Jun 21 Jun 21 18 430
Danger On The Horizon... - Senator Adam Schiff 1 Rhiannon12866 Jun 21 Jun 21 4 425
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