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Poll: Should Deniers Be Allowed To Post In E&E? (Poll) [View all] 119 hatrack Jun 2014 Nov 2024 21 127575
The E/E pocket reference guide [View all] 83 Dead_Parrot Feb 2012 Mar 2024 43 111488
Greenland's harsh environment and lack of infrastructure have prevented rare earth mining 3 nitpicked 20 hrs ago 6 hrs ago 4 368
Damn the torpedoes! Trump ditches a crucial climate treaty as he moves to dismantle America's climate protections 0 marmar 16 hrs ago 16 hrs ago 6 271
Trump's wind energy assault sinks permitting reform - Senate Environment & Public Works Committee 12 Rhiannon12866 Thursday Yesterday 4 575
Tracing Groundwater Uranium Cycling in the Northern Plains, United States 3 NNadir Saturday Saturday 2 354
Big Dairy Producer To Slightly Limit Groundwater Use, Compensate Residents, But 80% Of AZ Groundwater Still Unprotected 3 hatrack Saturday Saturday 5 310
Long Lines, Chaos At Entry Points For 11 Popular National Parks So Rangers Can Charge Foreign Visitors An Extra $100 1 hatrack Saturday Saturday 8 360
Shitstain Wants $50/Barrel Oil. He Also Wants Increased Oil Production. More Economic Genius Below. 1 hatrack Friday Friday 2 280
PNAS - West Antarctic Ice Sheet Retreated Repeatedly & Rapidly During Pliocene Epoch @ Temps 3-4C Higher Than Now 0 hatrack Friday Friday 4 235
Ocean Warming Breaks Record for Ninth Straight Year 0 douglas9 Friday Friday 11 220
Environmentalists decry Trump deal giving Utah control of national park land 2 douglas9 Friday Friday 12 402
Earth's Oceans Absorbed Record Amounts Of Heat In 2025; N. Pacific, Tropical/S. Atlantic, Southern Ocean Led The Uptake 0 hatrack Friday Friday 9 267
Shitstain Leaves Global Climate Talks; It Won't Change What's Coming, May Ease Other Nations' Efforts 0 hatrack Friday Friday 6 308
Just because it hasn't happened in a long time, California is 100% drought free 1 OnlinePoker Thursday Thursday 7 303
Venezuela's oil, it's nasty... 4 MiHale Thursday Thursday 5 343
"Nothing Burger" - World's Biggest Reserves, But Most Of Venezuela's Oil Is The World's Dirtiest & Hardest To Refine 8 hatrack Thursday Thursday 10 500
Huge Forest Dieoffs Across Germany Thanks To Spruce Bark Beetle; Dying Monocultures Mean Loss Of CO2 Uptake 0 hatrack Thursday Thursday 5 360
Trump withdraws US from key climate treaty, deepening global pullback 0 Dulcinea Thursday Thursday 7 312
Indian police raid home of environmental activists over anti-fossil fuel campaign 0 Eugene Wednesday Wednesday 4 292
No More Plastic Bags at stores in California 10 Beringia Jan 1 Wednesday 7 505
Non-Response To H5N1 Outbreak At Dairy Factory Shows Nothing Has Changed W. America's Industrial Meat And Milk 6 hatrack Tuesday Wednesday 26 715
Plastic pellets known as 'nurdles' are polluting beaches and waterways 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 6 275
Dead fin whale discovered on bow of ship in New Jersey marine terminal 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Wednesday Wednesday 7 304
Texas clears the way for petrochemical expansion as experts warn of health risks 0 douglas9 Wednesday Wednesday 6 369
Canada has just broken a world record in nuclear fusion... 14 OnlinePoker Tuesday Tuesday 60 1784
Are folks in Europe as upset about giant data centers as we are here in the US 2 CurtEastPoint Tuesday Tuesday 8 371
A rare whale is having an encouraging season for births. Scientists warn it might still go extinct 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Tuesday Tuesday 4 196
Even Former Senator Flouncy Strutmuppet Can't Help Data Center Industry; Pushback Coming Across Deep Red States 5 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 23 763
In 2004, Trek Across Arctic Ice Saw Temps In 60s; In 2025, Arctic Report Card Shows Accelerating System Failure 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 256

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Western Queensland Plains Smothered By 8" - 20" Of Rain; Small Towns Like Winton Cut Off For A Week And Counting 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 7 301
2025 Hottest & Sunniest Year On Record For UK; Six Hottest Years Since Records Began In 1884 Took Place Since 2002 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 3 267
December 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 427.49 ppm; December 2024 425.40 ppm; December 2023 421.86 ppm 0 hatrack Tuesday Tuesday 6 225
Paleodata From Greenland Show Ice Dome 50 Miles Broad And 1,600 Feet High Melted Completely w/i Last 10,000 Years 2 hatrack Monday Monday 11 262
Honey-Making Stingless Bees in the Peruvian Amazon Become the First Insects to Gain Legal Rights 1 Judi Lynn Monday Monday 6 230
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 9 322
Another Benefit From The Bullshit That Is AI: "Just An Unbelievable Amount Of Pollution" 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 10 342
Few Florida Staghorn Corals Survived 2023 Bleaching; Many That Remain In Path Of Federal Dredging Project 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 2 254
Satellite Measurements Show Slight But Steady Declines In Heights Of 41 Dams In 13 States & Puerto Rico 0 hatrack Jan 4 Jan 4 5 274
Voltage, inertia and the Iberian blackout part 2: faulty PV inverter crashed the grid 2 NNadir Jan 4 Jan 4 4 326
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 2 336
"They Didn't De-Extinct Anything" - No Substantial Differences Between "Dire Wolves" And Those Living In North America 2 hatrack Dec 31 Jan 3 11 495
Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere 4 douglas9 Jan 2 Jan 2 29 1170
Electric Power Reliability, Energy Burdens, and Climate Change Beliefs in the United States 6 NNadir Dec 31 Jan 2 2 858
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 5 377
Ring-Necked Parakeet Population In England An Estimated 15,000 Pairs, Producing New Pressure On Native Birds 1 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 6 446
2025 UK Survey Finds 646 Flowering Plant Species In Bloom During November-December Study Period 0 hatrack Jan 2 Jan 2 6 282
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 3 411
Onboard an expedition to study a massive, melting glacier in Antarctica - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Jan 2 Jan 2 4 268
Americans Know The Reality Of Warming, Even If Their Insane Government Won't Admit Its Existence 6 hatrack Jan 1 Jan 1 14 445
2005 - Cabinet Ministers Explicitly Warned Australia's Right-Wing Government Of Warming Impacts; Nothing Really Changed 1 hatrack Jan 1 Jan 1 1 285
Christmas Eve In Iceland - A Balmy High Of 68F, Highest Temperature For The Day On Record 0 hatrack Dec 31 Dec 31 9 392
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 5 272
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 applegrove Dec 30 Dec 30 0 88
Engineered material uses light to destroy PFAS, other contaminants 2 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 30 9 392
GameChangers 2025: The Unstoppable Rise of Environmental Crime 0 douglas9 Dec 30 Dec 30 3 409
Category '6' tropical cyclone hot spots are growing 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 5 314
Feedback loops accelerate warming, other atmospheric changes in Arctic 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 228
China mandates "No Fire, No Explosion" EV battery rule as 294 national standards finalized 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 295
European Energy energises Northern Europe's largest combined solar and battery park 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 3 235

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Efficient method to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere developed at the University of Helsinki 0 OKIsItJustMe Dec 29 Dec 29 8 357
Reactor Pressure Vessel (RPV) Ingots 8 Finishline42 Dec 28 Dec 29 3 605
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 11 860
Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first 4 marmar Dec 29 Dec 29 13 462
AI data centers use so much energy and water: 11 applegrove Dec 27 Dec 29 16 691
George Monbiot: How One Conversation W. Joe Rogan & Mel Gibson Embodied Everything Stupid That Is America Today 5 hatrack Dec 27 Dec 29 12 748
More Than 180 Ski Resorts Have Closed In France Alone As Snow Continues Retreat To Higher Altitudes 2 hatrack Dec 28 Dec 28 12 506
Scientists work to decode wolf howls in Yellowstone with AI technology - PBS NewsHour 8 Rhiannon12866 Dec 27 Dec 28 8 436
Too Bad, So Sad - Shitstain's Big Ag Bailouts, EPA's Speedy Pestcide Approvals Alienating Antivax MAHA Voters 0 hatrack Dec 28 Dec 28 14 467
Conservation Groups Acquire Nearly 3,000 Acres Of Near-Pristine TX Coastal Land To Protect Last Wild Whooping Cranes 0 hatrack Dec 28 Dec 28 15 545
Solar Energy from space...! 4 pbmus Dec 27 Dec 28 14 696
How a company in landlocked Nebraska is helping fight plastic pollution in oceans - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Dec 28 Dec 28 6 446
A great info hub... 2 2naSalit Dec 27 Dec 27 12 416
America's biggest oil field is turning into a pressure cooker 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 26 Dec 26 5 493
How Bull Connor And George Wallace Wrenched Alabama Power Into The Rate-Hiking, Coal-Heavy Nightmare It Is Today 0 hatrack Dec 26 Dec 26 6 377
US voters linking climate crisis to rising bills despite Trump's 'green scam' claims 2 Eugene Dec 26 Dec 26 11 452
Chilean Govt & Tompkins Conservation Prep National Park Status For 500,000 Remote Acres In Southern Patagonia 0 hatrack Dec 25 Dec 25 5 331
Republicans aim to exempt major polluters from Pfas cleanup costs 0 Eugene Dec 24 Dec 24 7 344
West Antarctica's history of rapid melting foretells sudden shifts in continent's 'catastrophic' geology 1 marmar Dec 24 Dec 24 7 377
Ice Shelf Supporting Thwaites Glacier Has Lost Connection To Ocean Floor; Cracks In Positive Feedback Loop 1 hatrack Dec 24 Dec 24 36 958
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