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After Shoveling Billions To Drax For "Sustainable" Generation, Billions For "Carbon Capture" Also Under Scrutiny 0 hatrack Aug 30 Aug 30 1 297
Largest UK Lake - Loch Neagh In Northern Ireland - On Track For Worst Year Ever For Toxic Algae Blooms 0 hatrack Aug 30 Aug 30 1 287
American Scientists Continue To Contribute To Next IPCC Assessment, Though Numbers Down 80% From Last Cycle 0 hatrack Aug 30 Aug 30 4 324
India Eyes 10 Per Cent Of Global Green Hydrogen Market As Competition with China Intensifies 1 Caribbeans Aug 29 Aug 29 1 360
It is apparently possible to make wind turbines useful, somewhat to my surprise. 4 NNadir Aug 29 Aug 29 6 762
Trump Halts Wind Farm Near Completion -- Rhode Island Fights Back - Rhode Island PBS 6 Rhiannon12866 Aug 29 Aug 29 5 408
Florida's once-pristine springs threatened by pollution, development and climate change 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 29 Aug 29 3 402
Thawing permafrost raised carbon dioxide levels after the last ice age 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 29 Aug 29 4 298
Study: Modeling Runs Show 70% Chance Of Collapse Of Atlantic Conveyer Current If GHG Levels Continue To Rise 5 hatrack Aug 29 Aug 29 11 472
Every Day, Beach Cleaners Near Adelaide Remove 100s Of Pounds Of 1,000s Of Fish, Sea Creatures Killed By Algae Bloom 0 hatrack Aug 29 Aug 29 10 401
Spainish Town using Vine Canopies to Reduce Heat Re: 3,0000 yr old Persian Technique 9 electric_blue68 Aug 28 Aug 29 23 863
India Tackles Hydrogen's Water Crisis with Low-Cost Seawater Electrolyser From the Indian Institute of Technology Madras 1 Caribbeans Aug 28 Aug 28 3 366
Rising temperatures intensify "supercell thunderstorms" in Europe 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 28 Aug 28 4 334
The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 28 Aug 28 4 362
Trump administration advances plan to reverse federal rule that limits logging in national forests 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 28 Aug 28 9 375
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds 0 muriel_volestrangler Aug 28 Aug 28 14 501
Chapter 10. The Venus Syndrome & Runaway Climate - James Hansen 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 28 Aug 28 4 284
Study: Humans Inhale Up To 68,000 Plastic Fragments Daily: Inhalation "May Be More Significant Than We Realize" 1 hatrack Aug 28 Aug 28 7 373
Lobbyists Unveil Big Tobacco Playbook To Pressure MPs Against Regulating Toxic PFAS Tied To Disease, Hormone Disruption 0 hatrack Aug 28 Aug 28 5 329
'Peak Water Security' Crisis, Texas A&M Researcher Warns 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 28 Aug 28 10 511
China races to build world's largest solar farm to meet emissions targets 1 Caribbeans Aug 28 Aug 28 1 399
Pasadena Council Approves $32 Million Hydrogen Bus Contract, Accelerating Zero-Emission Fleet Conversion 1 Caribbeans Aug 27 Aug 28 1 320
EVs reduce climate pollution, but by how much? New U-M research has the answer 4 OKIsItJustMe Aug 27 Aug 27 3 532
Burgum: people with bad ulterior motives to the US would launch a swarm drone attack through wind farms 5 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 27 Aug 27 3 618
Mysterious Structures at 3,000 Meters Beneath the Pacific May Emit Over 5 Billion in Hydrogen Each Year--No Drilling Req 4 Caribbeans Aug 26 Aug 27 10 1914
Cheyenne to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 7 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 26 Aug 27 6 470
Record Post-COVID Visitor #s At Yosemite; Meanwhile, Trump's NPS Barely Hit Half Of Seasonal Hiring Target By July 0 hatrack Aug 27 Aug 27 4 417
Wow! We're saved! The British have introduced recyclable wind turbine blades!!! I learned about it right here at DU. 9 NNadir Aug 27 Aug 27 5 674
Google/Alphabet President Gushes Over "Fantastic" DOE Plans To Power AI With 'Incredibly Clean" Coal 4 hatrack Aug 27 Aug 27 3 440
The blue dragon: The spectacular sea slug behind beach closures in Spain 5 cbabe Aug 27 Aug 27 8 686

Environment & Energy Continued...

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20 Years After Katrina, FEMA On The Chopping Block, Agency Run By Guy Who Said He Didn't Know About Hurricane "Season" 1 hatrack Aug 27 Aug 27 8 366
GA County Commissioners Vote Unanimously To Delay Vote On AI "Hypercenter" After Large-Scale Resident Pushback 0 hatrack Aug 27 Aug 27 7 364
Study - Local Heat Spikes Driven By Deforestation Have Killed +/- 500,000 People Over 20 Years 0 hatrack Aug 27 Aug 27 5 278
Summer 2025 Will "Almost Certainly" Be The Warmest Summer In UK Weather Records Dating Back To 1884 0 hatrack Aug 27 Aug 27 3 287
Multiple Fires In CA, OR, MT Have (So Far) Failed To Cause Major Damage, But Season Just Getting Going 0 hatrack Aug 27 Aug 27 2 266
U.S. underprepared for natural disasters after Trump changes, current and ex-FEMA employees say - CBS News 1 Rhiannon12866 Aug 27 Aug 27 3 284
HD Hyundai Executive Vice Chairman Chung Kisun Meets TerraPower, including Chairman Bill Gates, to Discuss Nuclear ... 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 26 Aug 26 2 386
RWE's Sofia is the UK's first offshore wind farm to use recyclable rotor blades 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 26 Aug 26 2 395
The Biological Consequences of Benny Sovacool's Call for Deep Sea Mining to Go "Green." 0 NNadir Aug 26 Aug 26 2 926
This updated NASA CERES Satellite data shows why we expect much more regional warming in the pipeline. 0 littlemissmartypants Aug 25 Aug 25 5 1113
NASA Earth Science Faces Loss Of More Than Half Its Budget; Data It Provides Spans The Sciences 1 hatrack Aug 25 Aug 25 5 444
'This technology is possible today': Nuclear waste could be future power source and increase access to a rare fuel 3 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 25 5 933
New TN Hospital Flooded During Helene; Now, Thanks To Big Shitty Bill, There's A Good Chance That It Will Never Reopen 5 hatrack Aug 25 Aug 25 10 1655
At CITES Conference At Year-End, US Will Make History By Proposing Zero Upgrades In Status For Trafficked Wildlife 1 hatrack Aug 25 Aug 25 2 358
Funding Cut For Only US Icebreaker Available For Antarctic Research; Successor Ship Postponed Indefinitely 2 hatrack Aug 25 Aug 25 3 376
EU Study - European Crop Losses Projected To Increase By 2/3 By 2050, To $29 Billion Annually 0 hatrack Aug 25 Aug 25 2 305
Research Details Devastating Toll of Colonization on Pacific Northwest Wildlife 2 Judi Lynn Aug 25 Aug 25 8 995
Will there be a La Nina this fall? Here's what forecasters predict and what it means for the weather 0 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 6 949
As glaciers melt, scientists study potential for more violent volcanic eruptions - PBS NewsHour 5 Rhiannon12866 Aug 23 Aug 24 8 469
Abrupt Antarctic climate shifts could lead to "catastrophic consequences" for years, study finds - CBS News 3 Rhiannon12866 Aug 23 Aug 24 7 466
Monkeys falling from trees and baking barnacles: how heat is driving animals to extinction 1 applegrove Aug 20 Aug 24 6 484
Goodbye to polluting trucks--Walmart unveils the first green hydrogen vehicle approved in Latin America 0 Caribbeans Aug 24 Aug 24 2 335
Great white sharks head north, following seals and alarming beachgoers 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 24 Aug 24 7 587
America's 2.2 Billion Dollar "Greatest Energy Disaster (?)" to Be "Left to Rot" After a Decade of Operations. 2 NNadir Aug 23 Aug 24 6 672
Shitstain Wants To Offload MI National Parks Onto The State - w/o Budget, Staff Or Training To Make It Possible 6 hatrack Aug 20 Aug 24 12 712
The Plan to Turn the Caribbean's Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel 1 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 7 489
Antarctic submarine canyons may negatively impact ocean circulation, iceshelf thinning and the climate. 1 Tonk Aug 24 Aug 24 7 506
Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory 7 douglas9 Aug 23 Aug 24 9 603
Sacramento Food Trucks Embrace Clean Energy with Hydrogen Fuel Cells at Tahoe Park Event 1 Caribbeans Aug 23 Aug 23 3 251
Trump halts work on New England offshore wind project that's nearly complete 4 Eugene Aug 23 Aug 23 10 543

Environment & Energy Continued...

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2024 Melting On Svalbard "In A Different League", Even When Compared W. Prior Records In 2020, 2022 3 hatrack Aug 23 Aug 23 7 387
Warming May Expand Range Of S. Asian Fruit Bats Carrying The Rare NIpah Virus, Which Is 75% Fatal In Humans 1 hatrack Aug 23 Aug 23 4 450
"A Whole Range Of Abrupt And Surprising Changes Happening Across Antarctica" - And They're Not Happening In Isolation 1 hatrack Aug 23 Aug 23 56 2096
Lysenko 2.0 - US Science Policy Rapidly Declining Under Weight Of Official Lies, Greed And Stupidity 1 hatrack Aug 23 Aug 23 20 429
Top Industry Analyst: Fires, Floods, Record Heat Herald "The Beginning Of The Age Of Non-Tourism" 2 hatrack Aug 23 Aug 23 4 445
Hydrogen's reawakening has market on verge of a breakthrough 1 Caribbeans Aug 22 Aug 23 3 422
A Lovely Scientific Paper Out of Ghana on the Use of Americium. 0 NNadir Aug 23 Aug 23 1 381
Unable to Afford Platinum for Its Fuel Cells, Alstom Switches Its Trains From Hydrogen Back to Diesel. 3 NNadir Aug 22 Aug 22 2 851
Temporary slowdown in melting of Arctic sea ice, study finds 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 2 356
Heat-stressed Australian forests are thinning fast, producing carbon emissions 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 4 385
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 0 138
'They're not going to live normally': A devastating disease has surged in Calif. 19 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 19 Aug 22 27 1570
"Lake" Of Oil Sludge, Lead, PFAS Up To 16 Feet Thick Under CA Refinery Set To Close: Who Will Clean It Up? 6 hatrack Aug 22 Aug 22 7 642
Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 5 329
Shell Got $1.65 Billion Tax Break For PA Plastics Plant; 3 Years And Dozens Of Violations Later, Shell Wants To Sell It 2 hatrack Aug 22 Aug 22 4 456
Brazil Abandons Soy Moratorium, Opening Area The Size Of Portugal To New Deforestation 4 hatrack Aug 22 Aug 22 4 612
In Namibia, Even Desert-Adapted Species Hammered By Increasingly Extreme Droughts Driven By Global Warming 0 hatrack Aug 22 Aug 22 3 296
Worst Fire Season On Record For EU - At Least 1 Million Hectares Burned, Along W. Record Output Of CO2, Other Pollutants 0 hatrack Aug 22 Aug 22 4 259
Pickett Fire (Napa County near Calistoga) Hits 2,100 Acres w/i Hours Of Outbreak: Evacuations Ordered 0 hatrack Aug 22 Aug 22 2 326
Breaking the Rules to Build a Better Battery 7 OKIsItJustMe Aug 21 Aug 22 4 503
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