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'Outrageous': Azerbaijan Picks Former Oil Exec to Head COP29 2 Brenda Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 484
Wyoming coal could be in for a rough year 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 455
100+ Zombie Fires Burning Now In BC; After North Dakota-Sized Area Of Canada Burned In 2023, 2024 Outlook Turning Grim 0 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 537
The Times They Aren't a-Changing: More Carbon, More Heat, More Hot Air Expected in 2024 2 Judi Lynn Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 1341
Germany's CO2 emissions are at their lowest in 7 decades, study shows 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 448
Beaver ponds may exacerbate warming in Arctic, scientists say 5 NickB79 Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 582
Satellite imagery analysis shows immense scale of dark fishing industry 2 highplainsdem Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 659
On The Ice Sheet, Hairline Cracks Become Moulins Overnight, Shaking Our Understanding Of Greenland's Stability 1 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 10 918
ZE Energy Sources for Locomotives 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 456
Greta Thunberg 21st birthday January 3, 2024. 7 spike jones Jan 2024 Jan 2024 26 950
Proposed IA CO2 Pipelines Have First Responders Wondering Who Will Pay For Upgraded Airpacks, EV Trucks 0 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 561
As 2024 Begins, Great Lakes Ice Cover Lowest In At Least 50 Years 0 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 490
As Expected, 2023 Was The Hottest Year In The Instrumental Record; As El Nino Continues In 2024, What's Next? 0 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 710
China's BYD is selling more electric cars than Tesla 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 578
Whole Colonies Of Emperor Penguin Chicks Wiped Out, Sea Ice Area Collapses: Antarctic Work "A Gut Punch" For Scientists 2 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 15 1216
W. 16 $1 Billion Or Bigger Disasters In 2023, Texas Leads The Nation In Explosive Growth In Insurance Premiums 2 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 660
China tests world's largest, 600,000-ton, coal-to-ethanol production plant 4 NickB79 Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 482
At 18 Months And Counting, Sunak Somehow Can't Find A Chair For Scientific/Climate Advisory Committee 2 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 562
Late December Heatwave Crushing Records Across W. Canada; Flooding, Hail Swamp Parts Of Saudi Arabia 0 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 8 560
US finds Bayer's short GM corn can be safely grown, but hurdles remain 4 NickB79 Jan 2024 Jan 2024 0 808
Reno Takes A Ride Into the Future with Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Buses 8 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Jan 2024 5 1010
Hydrogen-powered Generators Support Safe Rail Operations While Safeguarding the Environment - Union Pacific Rail 13 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 1402
The Race to Breed 'Supercoral' to Save Us From Climate Doom 0 babylonsister Dec 2023 Dec 2023 9 448
U.S. Department of Energy Analysis Confirms California's Salton Sea Region to Be a Rich Domestic Lithium Resource 5 Kennah Dec 2023 Dec 2023 8 716
China will deploy 116,900 FCEVs by 2025, significantly surpassing the 50K target in China's national hydrogen strategy 4 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 3728
New Mexico proposes regulations to reuse fracking wastewater 0 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 407
US Treasury moves to restrict hydrogen tax breaks offered by IRA 1 NickB79 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 857
Amazon Basin Drought: "We've Never Seen Anything Like This" 4 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 37 1196
Plug switches on Amazon's first on-site electrolyser in Colorado 1 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 802
It's Complicated - Chronobyl & Fukushima Exclusion Zones Starting To Reveal A "New Ecology" 3 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 695

Environment & Energy Continued...

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2023 Marked By Record Warmth And Melting At The North End Of The Antarctic Peninsula 0 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 482
In A Bit More Than 100 Years, 99% Of Southern African Penguins Are Gone - Overfishing, Climate Collapse 0 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 539
The "End Of The World Auction" - Brazil Announces 602 Oil/Gas Lease Sites - Offshore, Rainforest, Park Buffer Zones 0 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 9 620
World's tallest wooden wind turbine starts turning 0 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 10 604
Company Sells Indigenous Land In Brazil As NFTs w/o Tribe's Knowledge, Because "Carbon Credits" 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 587
Crashworthiness for Alternative Fuel Powered Locomotives 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 424
How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 617
Japan's Nuclear Regulator OKs Restart Of World's Largest Plant; Local Approvals Pending In Niigata Prefecture 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 548
German Meteorological Office Confirms 2023 Warmest Year Since Records Began In 1881 0 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 408
A US map on how we heat, as a nation. Pretty interesting. 10 OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 19 1733
'Tree lobsters': Insects believed to be extinct go on display at San Diego Zoo 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2023 Dec 2023 10 799
Earth's Temperature Has Changed WILDLY, So What's the Big Deal About a Few Degrees? - PBS Terra 0 Rhiannon12866 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 646
Wales, Fearing Another Aberfan Disaster, Angered By Westminster's Inaction On 100s Of Coal Waste Piles 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 19 717
The COP Treadmill Occasionally Spins Faster, But Never Actually Goes Anywhere 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 524
Red Crab Migration Begins On Christmas Island - Number Boosted After Scientists Take On Invasive Ants 2 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 12 1463
2023 - The Year Governments Saw What Was Happening To The Climate & Decided Protestors Were The Problem 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 10 1647
Too late to save the climate? 9 Brenda Dec 2023 Dec 2023 11 1322
Fuel-Cell Revolution: Daimler Truck Pioneers Decarbonisation with Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Trial Fleet 3 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 17567
Fact-check: Are real or artificial Christmas trees better for the environment? 8 Rhiannon12866 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 1330
Something positive - Lowest wildfire acreage burned since 1998 1 OnlinePoker Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 416
Long lines and broken chargers: Demand for powering EVs outpaces infrastructure 6 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 8927
Warming Unleashes Acid Flows From Minerals Once Locked Up In Permafrost - Entire Arctic Rivers Devoid Of Life 7 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 14 812
'Mass delusion and wishful thinking': Why everything you think you know about methane is probably wrong 1 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 518
Jack-booted Thugs Of AL State Agency Oppressed Landfill Owner After A Mere 20 Years Of Violations 2 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 8 655
+/- 100 Red Handfish Remain In The Wild; Oz Scientists Removing Up To Half To Tanks As Heatwaves Gather 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 769
Nimrata Bashing Gov. Whiteboots For His Environmental Record, Which Is Just Waaaay Too "Liberal" 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 598
Flowers 'giving up' on scarce insects and evolving to self-pollinate, say scientists 1 NickB79 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 487
Panama's Drought Continues; By February, Canal Capacity Will Drop From 36 Ships/Day To 18 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 1744
Mid-December Temperatures +/- 15C Above Historic Averages In Southeast Australia 4 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 562
Why LEDs haven't yet cut energy use for lighting 7 NickB79 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 10 773

Environment & Energy Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Biden administration unveils hydrogen tax credit plan to jump-start industry 0 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 474
Gas Utilities' Fight Against Climate Protection Just Beginning, As Colorado Towns Discovered 2 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 654
Unchecked Human Activity Is Pushing Ecosystems Toward the Brink 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 11 550
The Endangered Species Act is Needed Now More Than Ever 0 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 423
In Case You Missed Coverage Of This Week's Storm In The Northeast, NBC News Video 3 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 13 1006
More US auto buyers are turning to hybrids as sales of electric vehicles slow 3 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 677
Environmental campaigners filmed, threatened and harassed at Cop28 2 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 380
As the Arctic warms, its waters are emitting carbon: Study 2 Jim__ Dec 2023 Dec 2023 8 516
Study: Record-Setting Straight-Line Winds May Be Directly LInked To Warming Climate 2 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 16 595
Why I'm against hydrogen cells, central solar plants, and question nuclear options? 6 RoeVWade Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 832
Climate Risk To US Real Estate Markets May Be Substantially Understated 3 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 15 632
Scientists Brace For Assessment From Flooding, Wave Damage Along Great Barrier Reef (Cyclone Jasper) 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 553
Seattle, other cities use creative workarounds to ditch gas 3 Think. Again. Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 535
CNN: The United States is producing more oil than any country in history 2 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 694
Canada says all cars and trucks must be zero emission by 2035, industry unhappy 3 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 523
Leading Oz Marine Scientist: "Unprecedented Mass Coral Bleaching And Mortality" Likely In 2024 2 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 393
How Bad Was 2023's Heat? Tree Ring Data From Ponderosa Pine Bigelow 224 Show Us 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 20 725
Cocoa grown illegally in a Nigerian rainforest heads to companies that supply major chocolate makers 0 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 1470
Russia presents electric car Amber, public wishes it hadn't -- photo 8 OnlinePoker Dec 2023 Dec 2023 8 929
Scientists may be using a flawed strategy to predict how species will fare under climate change, suggests study 1 NickB79 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 553
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