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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 150257
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'Seed Transfer Zones' will help restore Brazil's degraded land 0 OKIsItJustMe 25 min ago 25 min ago 0 79
Climate change drives 'emptying' of rural Bhutan 0 OKIsItJustMe 56 min ago 56 min ago 6 182
This Canadian Mine Might Release Enough Natural Hydrogen Each Year to Power 400 Homes, Hinting at an Untapped Source of 5 Judi Lynn 19 hrs ago 1 hr ago 2 323
AP: Plastic bags don't go in the recycling bin. What should you do instead? 5 AStern 14 hrs ago 1 hr ago 22 726
602 Dams, Weirs And Sluices Removed From European Rivers And Streams In 2025 - A New Record 3 hatrack 5 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 45 914
Among SpaceX IPO Details: Company Spent $131 Million On Cybertrucks In 2025; Grok Potentially Dangerous; More 4 hatrack 5 hrs ago 2 hrs ago 0 231
Oops!! Shitstain's Big Oil Plans For Gulf Of Mexico, California, Would Cut Area Available For Military Exercises 0 hatrack 4 hrs ago 4 hrs ago 2 256
Trump's Energy War Causes Affordability Crisis For Millions of Working Americans - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 0 Rhiannon12866 9 hrs ago 9 hrs ago 3 226
In my writings here, I will no longer refer to methane, the climate heating driving gas, as "natural gas." 0 NNadir 9 hrs ago 9 hrs ago 3 232
How Denmark's wind and solar investments shield it from global energy turmoil - PBS NewsHour 1 Rhiannon12866 10 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 15 360
Poland Bought Hydrogen Buses. Then The Fuel Bills Arrived 0 NNadir 10 hrs ago 10 hrs ago 5 424
University of Alberta chemist turns ocean water into an abundant hydrogen source 4 Caribbeans 12 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 5 321
Television news coverage of climate policy is limited and polarized in the US 1 OKIsItJustMe 20 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 5 269
NC Beachfront Property Owners Get $50 Million In State Money To Dump More Sand, "Save" Their Stupid Fucking Homes 9 hatrack Yesterday 16 hrs ago 9 459
Colombia's climate crossroads: Trumpism casts shadow over presidential battle 0 OKIsItJustMe 20 hrs ago 20 hrs ago 2 264
X-post: UN backs world court climate opinion; U.S. among few to oppose 1 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday 20 hrs ago 1 255
International Energy Agency video: How the Energy Landscape Changed Last Year 0 OKIsItJustMe 22 hrs ago 22 hrs ago 1 241
The feds are coming for diesel truck owners. They're starting with your phone 6 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 23 hrs ago 22 hrs ago 8 598
Companies join a deep-sea mining rush after Trump executive order, as regulators fast-track permits 6 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday 22 hrs ago 4 312
Trump will ease refrigerant rule in effort to address surging grocery costs 7 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday 22 hrs ago 8 503
Indian city records 48.2C temperature as sizzling heatwave empties roads 2 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday 23 hrs ago 4 324
Scientists map which genes are active in a developing seed to build hardier crops 0 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday Yesterday 5 226
England must harvest rainfall and take action on water usage, Lords warn 0 OKIsItJustMe Yesterday Yesterday 6 242
Kansas farmers hit hard by weather extremes and growing costs, wheat crop could be worst since 1972 5 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Yesterday 5 347
Massive northeast Montana dust storm raises fears of another Dust Bowl era 1 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 5 349
The Simple Truth: Climate Change is Real - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Yesterday Yesterday 4 228
IEA: Global EV Outlook 2026 - Emerging battery chemistry and designs 2 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Yesterday 2 300
Electricity Generation from Solar Could Exceed Coal in ERCOT for the First Time in 2026 10 mahatmakanejeeves Wednesday Wednesday 6 509

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Close to 30% of cars sold this year are set to be electric as countries and consumers respond to energy crisis 8 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 4 537
Young Americans demand court halt Trump's biggest rollbacks of pollution protections 2 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 7 269
A gray wolf entered Sequoia National Park for the first time in a century 4 Beringia Wednesday Wednesday 17 470
China is cutting emissions even faster than promised and may already have peaked, study shows 0 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 3 381
Extreme weather events threaten river ecosystems 0 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 4 257
Carbon markets underestimate the risks U.S. forests face from climate change 0 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 1 240
White hydrogen discovered in billion-year-old Canadian Shield rock points to potential new energy source 0 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 3 407
IEA: Net Zero Emissions by 2050 - Acting now to limit overshoot 6 OKIsItJustMe Wednesday Wednesday 1 404
The UK Is Built For A Climate That No Longer Exists; Heatwaves At/Above 40C Will Span The Country By 2050 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 6 395
BC Ex-Premier Drops Truth Bomb: "We've Spent Billions To Convince Ourselves Carbon Capture Works. It Doesn't Work". 2 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 10 464
After Trump Killed Rebates, EPA Now Cites Falling EV Sales As Reason To "Reconsider" (i.e. Kill) Tier 4 Air Standards 2 hatrack Tuesday Wednesday 7 381
South Africa's CHARGE launches off-grid EV stations on Johannesburg-Durban corridor 3 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Wednesday 4 319
Appeals Court Rules That Suit Against Alabama Power Over 600 Acres Of Coal Waste, Groundwater Poisoning To Proceed 0 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 7 300
Research led by a Royal Holloway academic finds the 50 questions that could protect a vital ecosystem found across...globe 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 4 242
South Africa's $5.8bn green hydrogen-ammonia project advancing 1 Caribbeans Tuesday Tuesday 3 298
Why Fears Are Growing Over the Fate of a Key Atlantic Current (AMOC) 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 14 477
'Foolish' CSIRO job cuts will mean Australia unable to provide climate projections to global reports, scientists warn 1 Eugene Tuesday Tuesday 2 252
Warming Accelerates Ecological State Shift Along Maine Coast 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 8 292
Extreme Weather Events Accelerating Tidal Wetland Loss 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 4 220
Hope can inspire climate creativity for action according to new study 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 4 241
Climate report says world won't get as hot as feared but will pass warming limit 0 OKIsItJustMe Tuesday Tuesday 7 355
"Lies", "Unbelievable", "Alternative Reality" All Available In 35-page TVA Booklet Downplaying Coal Ash Risks 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 8 377
Sinton, TX Fighting Corpus Christi Groundwater Plan, Potentially Because It Wants A Data Center Of Its Own 1 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 5 339
For N. American Beekeepers, Swarming Season Started Nearly 3 Weeks Earlier Than In 2025 (After Record Dieoff) 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 5 315
Australia's Federal Biodiversity Funding Falling To 0.04% Of Budget; "Nature Markets" Flop, W. 1 Project Listed 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 2 229
Sea level rise is swallowing US Mid-Atlantic farmland faster than expected, study finds 2 nitpicked Tuesday Tuesday 28 681
Coal Makes a Comeback, Fueled by War in the Middle East 4 question everything Tuesday Tuesday 4 426
EPA to rescind bans on 4 forever chemicals in drinking water. 3 applegrove Monday Monday 15 436
Go Pakistan: 1 applegrove Monday Monday 19 411
Monash University Develops New Membrane To Boost Hydrogen Fuel Cell Efficiency At High Temperatures In EVs 2 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 2 286

Environment & Energy Continued...

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xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit 1 OKIsItJustMe May 12 Monday 4 363
Trump cuts to weather data could make forecasts less reliable, warn experts 2 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 4 274
China's solar exports jump 60% on the year in April 1 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 4 282
Access to NOAA's world-renowned Mauna Loa Observatory restored - Science activities to resume and site renovations plann 1 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 8 344
Comedian takes on ai data centers 0 cbabe Monday Monday 4 471
Wood burning is reintroducing lead pollution into the air, US scientists find 6 OKIsItJustMe Saturday Monday 3 710
CFS begins preparing a home for our 100 million degree fusion plasma 6 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 12 753
Extreme, Deadly Heat In Much Of South Asia Ranging From 111-115F; "It's No Longer Exceptional" 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 9 447
Single-Use Vapes Banned In UK Last Year But 6 Million Pods/Week Still Thrown Out; Fire & Toxin Hazards Abound 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 8 380
Oxygen: 0 applegrove Sunday Sunday 19 325
Metrobus cancellations after hydrogen bus fire in Crawley 9 NNadir May 9 Sunday 2 1007
Texas - Chevron Will Save $227 Million In 10 Years w. Tax Break; Related Data Center Will Host "Over 25 Full-Time Jobs" 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 8 428
2026 World Flop, er, Cup Likely To Set New Mark For Greenwashing Along W. GHG Output 1 hatrack Sunday Sunday 6 450
Despite gains combating deforestation in Brazil's Amazon, forest degradation is a looming threat 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 11 Sunday 2 285
Harrison Ford: 5 applegrove Friday Sunday 25 613
How Oil Propaganda Sneaks Into TV Shows Climate Town 1 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Sunday 5 338
NOAA - Super El Nino Now Most Likely Outcome For October-February 27 Period; Could Surpass Record From 150 Years Ago 2 hatrack Saturday Sunday 17 582
Declare climate crisis a global public health emergency, experts tell WHO 3 OKIsItJustMe Saturday Saturday 11 554
Global Ocean Conference Arouses Predictable Rhetorical Questions As To Humanity "Awakening" To Environmental Collapse 2 hatrack Jun 2025 Saturday 3 635
2/3 Of Americans Will Experience A Week Of Extreme Heat & Humidity Starting Friday June 20th 3 hatrack Jun 2025 Saturday 11 811
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