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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 121915
The E/E pocket reference guide [View all] 83 Dead_Parrot Feb 2012 Mar 2024 43 108122
An Antarctic Glacier Retreated (i.e. "Melted & Collapsed) 5 Miles In 2 Months; Rate Of Retreat 10X Prior Record 7 hatrack Nov 5 17 min ago 15 474
October 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Concentration 424.87 ppm; October 2024 422.38 ppm; October 2023 418.82 ppm 2 hatrack 12 hrs ago 11 hrs ago 1 160
September 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 424.37 ppm; September 2024 422.99 ppm; September 2023 418.50 0 hatrack 12 hrs ago 12 hrs ago 3 132
Cameras capture B.C. sea wolf raiding crab traps in first possible 'tool use' 3 OnlinePoker 21 hrs ago 18 hrs ago 15 392
We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It's a Revelation. 0 douglas9 22 hrs ago 22 hrs ago 10 301
Ocean with David Attenborough examines industrialization's destructive relationship with the sea and the hope for its 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Monday Monday 7 184
Video: What's really happening in the ocean's "dark zones" - China's huge invisible fishing fleet 0 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 4 294
Some good news about the bad news. 2 NNadir Sunday Monday 13 519
Skin cancer cluster found in 15 Pennsylvania counties with or near farmland 3 OKIsItJustMe Monday Monday 23 576
53,000 Animals - Half Of Breeding Female Elephant Seals On South Georgia - Dead From Bird Flu Since 2023 0 hatrack Monday Monday 15 333
Insect-Eating Birds Begin Gradual Comeback In France After Ban On Neonicotinoid Pesticides In Fields 2022 0 hatrack Monday Monday 13 326
Nearly 20,000 Glacial Lakes Span The Himalayas As Warming Takes Its Toll; Detailed Risk Analysis Hasn't Even Begun 0 hatrack Monday Monday 10 314
EPA Science Advisory Board Empty Since Feb; New Prospects - Climate Liars, Chemical Company Reps Nominated By A Lobbyist 0 hatrack Monday Monday 6 239
Fossil Fuel Lobbyists At CRAP30 Outnumber All Individual National Delegations Except For Brazil 2 hatrack Sunday Monday 6 317
Data center growth drives locals to fight for more say 0 douglas9 Monday Monday 6 257
Comment: U.S. climate efforts didn't hurt economy; they grew it 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sunday Sunday 6 226
Abdication - Whatever Happens After The Belem Garbage Fire, It's Going To Happen Without The United States 4 hatrack Sunday Sunday 17 568
UK High Court Finds Australian Firm BHP Liable For 2015 Dam Collapse That Killed 19, Dumped Toxic Waste In Brazil 0 hatrack Sunday Sunday 4 232
Severe floods threaten global rice yields, study finds 1 OKIsItJustMe Sunday Sunday 1 224
Largest One-Year Increase In Yellow Fever Cases In S. America Since 1960; Dengue Spreading There And In Europe 2 hatrack Saturday Saturday 7 298
Toxic Plastic Bead Spill Spreading On England's South Coast; Southern Water Just Raised Its Avg. Rates 47% This Year 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 4 318
Saudi Arabia A "Wrecking Ball" On Climate Action; Their Climate Worst-Case - Heatwaves At/Above 133F For Weeks On End 0 hatrack Saturday Saturday 8 288
A spreadsheet of reflecting a decade of the IEA's World Energy Outlook data for consumption and sources of energy. 0 NNadir Saturday Saturday 3 216
Sierra Club Statement on Interior's Sellout of Western Arctic 1 douglas9 Friday Saturday 7 317
Renewable energy is cheaper, creates more growth and creates more jobs than fossil fuel does/will 6 applegrove Friday Friday 7 320
After 13 Years, No End In Sight For Caribbean Sargassum Invasion; Toxic Air, Buried Beaches, Clogged Rivers 1 hatrack Friday Friday 4 1076
More Than Half Of All National Delegation Members At CRAP30 Have Obscured Their Affiliations: "Guest", "Other" Popular 0 hatrack Friday Friday 5 257
But But But . . . Drill Baby, Drill!! World Facing Oil Glut In 2026 Of Roughly 4 Million Barrels/Day, Per IEA Forecast 0 hatrack Friday Friday 3 206

Environment & Energy Continued...

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At Current (Increasing) Emissions Rates, 1.5C Threshold Of Catastrophic Warming Will Be Surpassed By 2030 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 188
Zanzibar's 'solar mamas' are trained as technicians to help light up communities 2 Jilly_in_VA Thursday Thursday 4 211
Finally, Something To Bring Americans Together - Pretty Much Everybody Hates Data Centers And Crypto Mines 1 hatrack Thursday Thursday 14 354
From Mining to Manufacturing: Scientific Challenges and Opportunities behind Battery Production 0 NNadir Thursday Thursday 3 162
2021 4-Day OR/WA Heatwave: "No Examples Of Heatwave-Induced Foliar Death At This Scale In The Historical Record" 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 6 247
Welcome To "Don't Say Climate!" Politics - Even As First Flailing Attempts To Cope W. What's Coming Begin 1 hatrack Nov 10 Thursday 3 379
US 'disappointed' that Rolls-Royce will build UK's first small modular reactors 6 OnlinePoker Thursday Thursday 4 299
Fears for elephant seals as bird flu kills half of population on South Georgia 1 muriel_volestrangler Thursday Thursday 6 191
A flotilla kicks off the People's Summit for activists at UN climate talks 0 Jilly_in_VA Thursday Thursday 3 167
Earth Still On Track For 2.6C Increase - i.e. "Global Disaster"; FF Emissions Up Again By +/- 1% In 2025 3 hatrack Thursday Thursday 9 380
Climatologist Jolle Gergis On Why Planting Trees And "Net Zero" Accounting Tricks Are Insidious, Feel-Good Bullshit 2 hatrack Nov 10 Thursday 6 324
From "Dulled Acceptance" To "Magical Thinking" - Elizabeth Kolbert On Our Response To A Crisis That Is Not Going Away 2 hatrack Nov 11 Thursday 13 425
The 2025 IEA World Energy Outlook Has Been Released. Coal grew faster in 2024 than either solar or wind. 3 NNadir Thursday Thursday 0 263
Al Gore on America's Noticeable Absence at COP30 Climate Conference - Amanpour and Company PBS 1 Rhiannon12866 Thursday Thursday 3 281
Brazil's JBS - Planet's Biggest Beef Company - "Recommending Climate Policy" At CRAP-30 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 298
FULL PRESSER: Newsom Slams Trump at COP30, 'Polluted Heart of Climate Crisis is Donald Trump' - DRM News 0 Rhiannon12866 Thursday Thursday 8 425
Prescribed burns central to wildfire legislation moving through Congress 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 2 260
Iceland deems possible Atlantic current collapse a security risk 0 nitpicked Wednesday Wednesday 10 372
The clock is ticking on the shrinking Colorado River as Western states miss a key deadline 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 4 224
Australia's Liberal Party (They're Not) Stance On Climate Spirals Off To Somewhere Between Incoherence And Insanity 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 2 249
7 Colorado Basin States Miss Deadline For Cuts In Water Use; Generation Halt Powell Possible By Late 2026 2 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 11 271
In Delhi, More Now Die From Air Pollution Than From Obesity Or Diabetes; Protest AQ And You'll Go To Jail 2 hatrack Nov 11 Wednesday 8 286
Integrated Vapor Transport (IVT) Boosts Moisture Air Currents Can Carry; WV In Bullseye Of New Rainfall Conditions 1 hatrack Wednesday Wednesday 5 370
Trump plan would open California to offshore oil drilling 3 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 11 Nov 11 5 314
"I've been thinking about this possibility for 15 years": Killer whale experts make new discovery off North American coa 0 marmar Nov 11 Nov 11 7 449
Modeling Shows Potential For "Burp" Of Heat From Southern Ocean - Absorbed Over Time, It Could Be Released Suddenly 3 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 11 14 402
Aedes Aegypti Mosquito, Which Carries Dengue, Couldn't Survive In The Rockies. Now They're Thriving In Western CO. 1 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 5 259
Absence Of Shitstain's Hacks & Cronies And Their "Full Thug Tactics" A Welcome Change At CRAP-30 0 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 3 238
Southern Water "Very Sorry" For Massive Toxic Spill, Which They Lied About; "Unclear" If They Will Face Legal Action 0 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 3 267
2nd Typhoon In 1 Week Hits Phillipine Island Of Luzon, Forcing Suspension Of Ongoing Rescue Operations 0 hatrack Nov 10 Nov 10 3 202

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Forests, Yes; Funding, Yes - But Any Meaningful Engagement On Fossil Fuels Highly Unlikely At Climate Summit 2 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 6 317
Survey Of 2,000 Australian Women w/o Kids Finds That 40% Are Reluctant To Reproduce Thanks To Global Warming 2 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 7 260
Drax Continues To Generate "Sustainable" Energy By Burning 250-Year Old Trees From Canada 3 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 10 291
"Catastrophic" - Toxic Plastic Beads Swamp Beloved English Beach; Cleanup Nearly Impossible 0 hatrack Nov 9 Nov 9 16 439
But Market Forces!!! As Emptiness Of Most Carbon Offset Programs Becomes Clear, Global Carbon Prices In Freefall 3 hatrack Nov 6 Nov 9 3 353
I Wish We Could Ignore Bill Gates On Climate, But He's A Billionaire So We Can't 1 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 8 8 351
NM Forests Painfully Vulnerable To Warming; Controlled Burns & Clearing Down 53% Under Shitstain Admin 3 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 8 8 345
"Unprecedented" Access For Oil & Gas Lobbyists Over Past Four Climate Summits - This Is What Corprate Capture Looks Like 0 hatrack Nov 8 Nov 8 7 286
Voters' anger over high electricity bills and data centers loom over 2026 midterms 1 Eugene Nov 8 Nov 8 14 396
Making the Case: The "Stop Work" President - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 8 Nov 8 4 322
Climate Journalist Learned How to Scuba Dive to Report on Ocean Research - Amanpour and Company PBS 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 8 Nov 8 2 207
As Brazil Cracks Down on Forest Clearing, Emissions Fall 0 douglas9 Nov 7 Nov 7 10 235
Solar doing so well in Australia, they are offering electricity for free at times: 4 applegrove Nov 6 Nov 7 13 320
Amazon Rainforest Lakes Hit Temperatures As High As 104F During Mass Dieoff Of Dolphins And Fish 1 hatrack Nov 7 Nov 7 13 348
Venezuelan Oil -- American Gangster Politics 4 douglas9 Nov 7 Nov 7 12 352
Shitstain Nominates Former Rep. And Oilfield Services CEO Steve Pearce To Head Bureau Of Livestock And Mining 2 hatrack Nov 7 Nov 7 5 335
National Park Skeleton Crews, Missed Court Dates As Environmental Agencies' Work Grinds To A Halt 0 hatrack Nov 7 Nov 7 8 323
188 Confirmed Dead So Far In 10 Regions In The Phillipines After Devastating Hit By Typhoon Kalmaegi 1 hatrack Nov 7 Nov 7 4 343
Toyota Sued for $5.7 Billion Over Mirai Hydrogen Cars 1 NickB79 Nov 2 Nov 6 6 376
As CRAP-30 Begins, UK Announces It Will Not Contribute To Flagship Fund Fighting Tropical Deforestation 0 hatrack Nov 6 Nov 6 3 275
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