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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 127613
The E/E pocket reference guide [View all] 83 Dead_Parrot Feb 2012 Mar 2024 43 111514
Analysis: Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after clean-energy records 3 OnlinePoker 37 min ago 34 min ago 2 119
Fracking Industry Executives Are Salivating Over the AI Data Center Boom 1 douglas9 5 hrs ago 1 hr ago 2 266
Himalayan Snowpack Falling Quickly Compared To 1980-2020 Baseline; No DecemberRain/Snow In Nearly All Of Northern India 2 hatrack 5 hrs ago 1 hr ago 2 206
House Passes Bill To Claw Back $500 Million In Abandoned Mine Cleanup Money From VA, IL, KY, WV 1 hatrack 5 hrs ago 3 hrs ago 3 286
Trump's wind energy assault sinks permitting reform - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee 13 Rhiannon12866 Thursday 3 hrs ago 5 666
No Wonder Trump Loves Venezuelan Oil - Its Decaying Infrastructure Leaks 13 Billion M3 Of Methane Each Year 1 hatrack 5 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 6 240
"Embarassing" - Tour Down Under Cyclists Wondering Why Ever-Hotter Race Sponsored By Oil/Gas Company Santos 0 hatrack 5 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 8 272
After Up To Two Feet Of Rain In Queensland, Multiple Communities May Be Cut Off For Weeks Or Months 0 hatrack 5 hrs ago 5 hrs ago 5 279
Cold weather and data centres drive up US greenhouse gas emissions 2.4% 1 muriel_volestrangler 7 hrs ago 6 hrs ago 2 161
Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America's climate protections 1 marmar Sunday 17 hrs ago 7 309
A bill to transfer all liabilities and responsibilities for decommissioned or damaged offshore oil and gas platforms 1 mahatmakanejeeves Yesterday Yesterday 7 371
Thousands Of Flying Foxes Died In Southeastern Australian Heatwave; Worst Dieoff Since Black Summer Of 2019-20 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 6 344
850,000 Acres Of Victoria Bushland Burned In One Week After Worst Heatwave In Years; One Dead, 300 Structures Gone 1 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 9 375
Oh Just Fucking Shoot Me: CRAP31 Head Plans "Engagement" With Global Petrostates As Best Approach For Climate Talks 0 hatrack Yesterday Yesterday 9 373
Austria's glaciers: Hope on thin ice? - DW News 0 TexasTowelie Yesterday Yesterday 4 172
Greenland's harsh environment and lack of infrastructure have prevented rare earth mining 3 nitpicked Sunday Sunday 5 427
Tracing Groundwater Uranium Cycling in the Northern Plains, United States 3 NNadir Saturday Saturday 2 405
Big Dairy Producer To Slightly Limit Groundwater Use, Compensate Residents, But 80% Of AZ Groundwater Still Unprotected 3 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 332
Long Lines, Chaos At Entry Points For 11 Popular National Parks So Rangers Can Charge Foreign Visitors An Extra $100 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 8 384
Shitstain Wants $50/Barrel Oil. He Also Wants Increased Oil Production. More Economic Genius Below. 1 hatrack Friday Friday 2 299
PNAS - West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreated Repeatedly & Rapidly During Pliocene Epoch @ Temps 3-4C Higher Than Now 0 hatrack Friday Friday 4 250
Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year 0 douglas9 Friday Friday 11 238
Environmentalists decry Trump deal giving Utah control of national park land 2 douglas9 Friday Friday 12 421
Earth's Oceans Absorbed Record Amounts Of Heat In 2025; N. Pacific, Tropical/S. Atlantic, Southern Ocean Led The Uptake 0 hatrack Friday Friday 9 278
Shitstain Leaves Global Climate Talks; It Won't Change What's Coming, May Ease Other Nations' Efforts 0 hatrack Friday Friday 6 324
Just because it hasn't happened in a long time, California is 100% drought free 1 OnlinePoker Thursday Thursday 7 314
Venezuela's oil, it's nasty... 4 MiHale Thursday Thursday 5 370
"Nothing Burger" - World's Biggest Reserves, But Most Of Venezuela's Oil Is The World's Dirtiest & Hardest To Refine 8 hatrack Thursday Thursday 10 524

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Huge Forest Dieoffs Across Germany Thanks To Spruce Bark Beetle; Dying Monocultures Mean Loss Of CO2 Uptake 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 370
Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty, deepening global pullback 0 Dulcinea Thursday Thursday 7 323
Indian police raid home of environmental activists over anti-fossil fuel campaign 0 Eugene Wednesday Wednesday 4 308
No More Plastic Bags at stores in California 10 Beringia Jan 1 Wednesday 7 517
Non-Response To H5N1 Outbreak At Dairy Factory Shows Nothing Has Changed W. America's Industrial Meat And Milk 6 hatrack Tuesday Wednesday 26 741
Plastic pellets known as 'nurdles' are polluting beaches and waterways 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 6 285
Dead fin whale discovered on bow of ship in New Jersey marine terminal 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 7 323
Texas clears the way for petrochemical expansion as experts warn of health risks 0 douglas9 Wednesday Wednesday 6 376
Canada has just broken a world record in nuclear fusion... 14 OnlinePoker Tuesday Tuesday 60 1812
Are folks in Europe as upset about giant data centers as we are here in the US 2 CurtEastPoint Tuesday Tuesday 8 396
A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday Tuesday 4 203
Even Former Senator Flouncy Strutmuppet Can't Help Data Center Industry; Pushback Coming Across Deep Red States 5 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 23 776
In 2004, Trek Across Arctic Ice Saw Temps In 60s; In 2025, Arctic Report Card Shows Accelerating System Failure 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 264
Western Queensland Plains Smothered By 8" - 20" Of Rain; Small Towns Like Winton Cut Off For A Week And Counting 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 7 331
2025 Hottest & Sunniest Year On Record For UK; Six Hottest Years Since Records Began In 1884 Took Place Since 2002 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 284
December 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 427.49 ppm; December 2024 425.40 ppm; December 2023 421.86 ppm 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 231
Paleodata From Greenland Show Ice Dome 50 Miles Broad And 1,600 Feet High Melted Completely w/i Last 10,000 Years 2 hatrack Jan 5 Jan 5 11 271
Honey-Making Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon Become the First Insects to Gain Legal Rights 1 Judi Lynn Jan 5 Jan 5 6 237
After A Year Of Shitstain Gutting America's Science And Emergency Response, "People Will Suffer - It's Just That Simple" 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 9 332
Another Benefit From The Bullshit That Is AI: "Just An Unbelievable Amount Of Pollution" 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 10 351
Few Florida Staghorn Corals Survived 2023 Bleaching; Many That Remain In Path Of Federal Dredging Project 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 2 263
Satellite Measurements Show Slight But Steady Declines In Heights Of 41 Dams In 13 States & Puerto Rico 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 5 284
Voltage, inertia and the Iberian blackout part 2: faulty PV inverter crashed the grid 2 NNadir Jan 4 Jan 4 4 338
Officials enlist hunters in battle against ginormous hogs taking over US region: 'You want that number ... going down' 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 4 Jan 4 2 344
"They Didn't De-Extinct Anything" - No Substantial Differences Between "Dire Wolves" And Those Living In North America 2 hatrack Dec 31 Jan 3 11 508
Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 4 douglas9 Jan 2 Jan 2 29 1194
Electric Power Reliability, Energy Burdens, and Climate Change Beliefs in the United States 6 NNadir Dec 31 Jan 2 2 884
Jordan Has Lost +/- 70% Of Its Olive Crop After Months Of Relentless Drought And Heat 10-15C Above Averages 3 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 5 388
Ring-Necked Parakeet Population In England An Estimated 15,000 Pairs, Producing New Pressure On Native Birds 1 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 6 456
2025 UK Survey Finds 646 Flowering Plant Species In Bloom During November-December Study Period 0 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 6 288

Environment & Energy Continued...

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UNL Cuts Dept Of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences - NE Has Seen 26 Billion-Dollar Disasters Since 2005; 4 In Prior 20 Years 1 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 3 420
Onboard an expedition to study a massive, melting glacier in Antarctica - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 2 Jan 2 4 274
Americans Know The Reality Of Warming, Even If Their Insane Government Won't Admit Its Existence 6 hatrack Jan 1 Jan 1 14 456
2005 - Cabinet Ministers Explicitly Warned Australia's Right-Wing Government Of Warming Impacts; Nothing Really Changed 1 hatrack Jan 1 Jan 1 1 293
Christmas Eve In Iceland - A Balmy High Of 68F, Highest Temperature For The Day On Record 0 hatrack Dec 31 Dec 31 9 398
England's Fire Services Dealt With 27,000 Fires In Forests, On Crop And Grasslands During 2025, Hottest Year On Record 0 hatrack Dec 31 Dec 31 5 280
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 applegrove Dec 30 Dec 30 0 93
Engineered material uses light to destroy PFAS, other contaminants 2 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 30 9 402
GameChangers 2025: The Unstoppable Rise of Environmental Crime 0 douglas9 Dec 30 Dec 30 3 422
Category '6' tropical cyclone hot spots are growing 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 5 321
Feedback loops accelerate warming, other atmospheric changes in Arctic 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 235
China mandates "No Fire, No Explosion" EV battery rule as 294 national standards finalized 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 301
European Energy energises Northern Europe's largest combined solar and battery park 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 241
Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere developed at the University of Helsinki 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 8 364
Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) Ingots 8 Finishline42 Dec 28 Dec 29 3 613
Nursing Home Explosion Kills More People than Died From Radiation at Fukushima But Not As Many As Died from Fear... 6 NNadir Dec 27 Dec 29 11 875
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first 4 marmar Dec 29 Dec 29 13 473
AI data centers use so much energy and water: 11 applegrove Dec 27 Dec 29 16 699
George Monbiot: How One Conversation W. Joe Rogan & Mel Gibson Embodied Everything Stupid That Is America Today 5 hatrack Dec 27 Dec 29 12 761
More Than 180 Ski Resorts Have Closed In France Alone As Snow Continues Retreat To Higher Altitudes 2 hatrack Dec 28 Dec 28 12 513
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