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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 138294
The E/E pocket reference guide [View all] 83 Dead_Parrot Feb 2012 Mar 2024 44 118480
Record-smashing heat continues: 'Basically the entire U.S. is going to be hot' 2 OKIsItJustMe 7 hrs ago 6 hrs ago 10 294
Warmest Winter Ever In 6 Western States; Temps In 50s And 60s Across Rockies Last Week, Even Above 10,000 Feet 1 hatrack 7 hrs ago 6 hrs ago 4 173
First New Nuclear Reactor Constructed at Idaho National Lab in 50 Years to Go Critical. 6 NNadir Sunday 7 hrs ago 6 488
Colorado Basin States Resume Water Negotiations; Focus Largely On Short-Term, Stopgap Measures 1 hatrack 10 hrs ago 9 hrs ago 5 200
UN weather agency warns of record 'climate imbalance' as planetary warming accelerates 2 OKIsItJustMe 15 hrs ago 13 hrs ago 7 340
Multiscale Mechanistic Insights into Hydrogen Production from Microalgae via Molten Hydroxide-Mediated Thermochemical... 5 NNadir Friday Yesterday 2 505
Nebraska Fires Surpass 700,000 Acres, Though Now Largely Contained; Biggest One Is The Biggest Fire In State History 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 6 339
Beavers create carbon sinks when they dam. 1 applegrove Sunday Sunday 5 290
150+ Daily Temperature Records And 50 All-Time Monthly Records Broken Since Tuesday As Heatwave Continues, Spreads 4 hatrack Sunday Sunday 12 353
Floating wetlands boost water quality, slash greenhouse emissions 2 highplainsdem Saturday Sunday 9 298
Northern Australia Dealing With Its Fifth Declared Disaster In A Single Wet Season - This Is What Climate Collapse Does 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 8 445
5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds 3 littlemissmartypants Sunday Sunday 5 322
Nuclear Fuel: The Most Sophisticated Industrial Product You've Never Learned About 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 2 237
Old growth forests store way more carbon: 2 applegrove Saturday Saturday 5 266
Researchers at U of W have figured out how to turn plastic waste into acetic acid (...vinegar) using the sun 3 applegrove Friday Saturday 11 388
Permian Basin Methane Leaks 4X EPA Estimates For 2024-25; Sen. Whitehouse In Pursuit Of Additional Data 2 hatrack Saturday Saturday 15 334
Global Dengue Cases Doubled In 2024 From 2023 To 12 Million; Study Links Surge To Extreme Rain From Climate Breakdown 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 8 254
Susan Collins Cannot (Alas!) Be Bothered To Even Appear "Concerned" When It Comes To A Collapsing Climate 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 17 437
New Coal Seam Gas Project In Queensland Will Produce 120 Million Tons Of CO2 - It Will Operate Through 2081 4 hatrack Friday Friday 4 307
Cancer risk may increase with proximity to nuclear power plants -- Harvard 6 Caribbeans Friday Friday 3 476
110F Recorded In Yuma Desert In Arizona; Highest March Temperature On Record In The United States 2 hatrack Friday Friday 8 344
Vietnam accelerates shift to ethanol fuel as Iran war drives up energy prices 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 3 246
Five disasters in a single wet season show the climate crisis is here and now in the Northern Territory (of Australia) 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 6 280
US Western Heatwave Pushing Temperatures Up To 30F Higher Than Normal; "Virtually Impossible" w/o Global Warming 4 hatrack Friday Friday 12 353
Climate variability poses a threat to cold blooded animals 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 7 241
Old-growth forests store a lot more carbon than managed forests 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 5 251
Big Advertising Move By Big Oil; From Of Greenwashing To "You Can't Live Without Us", Along W. Lots Of Tech Hopium 9 hatrack Friday Friday 5 431
James Hansen et al: Super El Nino? Super Warming is the Main Issue. 0 OKIsItJustMe Friday Friday 6 347

Environment & Energy Continued...

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State-Level Projections Of How Uninsureable Homes And Businesses Are Becoming: CA, FL, IL, MI, NE, NC, GA 7 hatrack Thursday Friday 11 568
7,500 Residents, 6 Planned Data Centers, 14% Of Town 2B Erased, At Least 450 Diesel Generators - Welcome To Archbald, PA 2 hatrack Friday Friday 13 465
March Heatwave Likely To Break All-Time April Heat Records; 800 Records At Risk Nationwide By End Of Month 0 hatrack Friday Friday 7 355
North TX Temps Will Push 100F This Weekend, With More Record Heat Coming The Following Wednesday 0 hatrack Friday Friday 2 226
Oil Majors Knew They Were Destroying The Louisiana Coast; Chevron Found Liable, But Case Now Before SCOTUS 0 hatrack Friday Friday 10 339
Asia Turns Back to Coal as War Chokes Off Natural Gas 1 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Friday 2 301
Snowbasin to end season prematurely: "This is not what we wanted" 0 nitpicked Friday Friday 6 398
Scramble for Jet Fuel Shows How Energy Shortages Are Rippling Across Asia 0 mahatmakanejeeves Friday Friday 6 338
Tracking the Pollution Exposure of an Ecosystem by Applying Nuclear Bomb Testing Debris. 1 NNadir Thursday Thursday 3 490
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 0 87
'Unprecedented' wildfires in tropical peatlands during 20th century 0 OKIsItJustMe Thursday Thursday 3 306
The Biogeochemical Fate of the Long Lived Radioactive Fission Product Selenium-79. 11 NNadir Mar 13 Thursday 0 1134
Southeast Asian Nations Reeling From Energy Shock; Four-Day Weeks, New Fuel Subsidies, Oil Export Bans 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 273
Growers And Botanists Working To Improve Robusta Coffee, Which Will Likely Survive Warming Better Than Arabica 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 7 332
Category 5 Cyclone Narelle Heading For Cape York (N. Australia) With Winds At 195 mph; Landfall AM Friday 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 412
"A Hostile, Inefficient Work Culture Designed To Push People Out" - Nearly 20% Of Interior Staff Have Quit Or Retired 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 11 391
"We're Really Running Wildlife Off of the Planet": Sen. Whitehouse on Threats to Endangered Species - Senator Whitehouse 2 Rhiannon12866 Wednesday Wednesday 11 298
CCNY Research Professor Kaveh Madani wins 'Nobel Prize of Water' 4 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 8 411
If It's Too Hot To Safely Work Or Exercise Outdoors, More People Will Die - +/- 500K Globally Every Year 3 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 11 432
Severe U.S. drought (in late 1980's) undermined Gulf fisheries, raising (future) food security concerns 0 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 3 226
Rapid melting of Antarctic sea ice largely driven by ocean warming 0 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 7 254
New ice core studies expand histories of greenhouse gases and ocean temperature to 3 million years 0 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 6 295
UBC study links artificial turf fields to lethal chemical threat for salmon 4 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 6 397
Sen. Whitehouse Lambasts Trump Energy Policies: "Are they stupid? Or is something darker going on?" - Senator Whitehouse 8 Rhiannon12866 Tuesday Wednesday 13 608
CA Temperatures Through 3/21/26 - Downtown LA 98, Long Beach 97, Santa Barbara 91, San Bernardino 105 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 9 377
Update: Corpus Christi Could Face Emergency Water Cutbacks As Early As May; No Plan As To How Cutbacks Would Work 2 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 8 534
Why Mushrooms are Starting to Replace Everything 4 Uncle Joe Wednesday Wednesday 15 796
China backs wider hydrogen adoption as Strait of Hormuz crisis jolts energy markets 0 Caribbeans Wednesday Wednesday 0 270
How U.S. states can attract fusion power plants: A new CFS white paper 21 OKIsItJustMe Mar 16 Wednesday 4 785
Solar electrical output out west was in surplus this winter. 3 applegrove Tuesday Wednesday 10 376

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Coastal ocean chemistry now substantially shaped by humans 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 8 233
The Weakness of "Drill Baby Drill" in the Face of Trump's Wartime Energy Crisis - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 0 Rhiannon12866 Tuesday Tuesday 1 242
How the 'green' mining boom is contaminating indigenous rivers in Southeast Asia - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Tuesday Tuesday 6 293
Oklahoma Knew About 600+ Wells Illegally Injecting Fracking Waste Into The Ground. They Did Nothing. 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 15 381
Native Village In BC Hosts 2nd Largest LNG Terminal On Earth, Despite Rising Seas & Tsunami Risks 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 456
Title To NFS Land Sacred To AZ Apaches Confirmed By Appeals Court; Foreign Copper Mining Companies To Benefit 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 9 273
Satellites Reveal World's Superleaks Of Methane From O&G Operations; State Facilities In Turkmenistan Lead The Pack 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 297
Iran war should trigger faster exit from fossil fuel dependence, UN climate chief says 2 OKIsItJustMe Mar 16 Mar 16 4 328
Not every forest cools the Earth 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 16 Mar 16 6 355
Reliance signs $3 billion green ammonia supply deal with South Korea's Samsung C&T 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 16 Mar 16 1 258
Iran War Hits Europe With an Energy Shock It Can't Afford to Absorb 0 mahatmakanejeeves Mar 16 Mar 16 3 371
Aaaaand Another Climate Faceplant: Germany Manages To Lower GHG Output By 0.1% In 2025 1 hatrack Mar 16 Mar 16 6 373
Carbon Capture With Solar and Wind: One Doesn't Often See Perpetual Motion Machines in the Scientific Literature, but... 4 NNadir Mar 14 Mar 16 4 537
Australia's Largest Toxic Algae Bloom Ever Persists After A Year; More Than 780 Species Hit By Deadly Impacts 0 hatrack Mar 16 Mar 16 5 342
Austria Has 96 Glaciers; All But 2 Have Retreated In The Past 2 Years; More Than 1,000 Small Swiss Glaciers Already Gone 0 hatrack Mar 16 Mar 16 5 270
Preliminary results from the first EPA-permitted ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) field trial 0 OKIsItJustMe Mar 15 Mar 15 6 337
Centuries of net-negative emissions required to secure a safe climate future 8 OKIsItJustMe Mar 13 Mar 15 6 547
Screen Capture of a Solar Industrial Park in Indiana and a Related Scientific Paper. 2 NNadir Mar 15 Mar 15 5 733
Judges will not see climate change science in handbook for judges as they weigh evidence in court: 0 applegrove Mar 14 Mar 14 9 387
"Staggeringly Low" Snowpack Across Most Of American West Already In Place; Now, Record-Crushing Heat Moves East From CA 2 hatrack Mar 14 Mar 14 16 485
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