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The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 28 Aug 28 4 356
Trump administration advances plan to reverse federal rule that limits logging in national forests 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 28 Aug 28 9 372
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds 0 muriel_volestrangler Aug 28 Aug 28 14 499
Chapter 10. The Venus Syndrome & Runaway Climate - James Hansen 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 28 Aug 28 4 282
Study: Humans Inhale Up To 68,000 Plastic Fragments Daily: Inhalation "May Be More Significant Than We Realize" 1 hatrack Aug 28 Aug 28 7 372
Lobbyists Unveil Big Tobacco Playbook To Pressure MPs Against Regulating Toxic PFAS Tied To Disease, Hormone Disruption 0 hatrack Aug 28 Aug 28 5 327
'Peak Water Security' Crisis, Texas A&M Researcher Warns 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 28 Aug 28 10 507
China races to build world's largest solar farm to meet emissions targets 1 Caribbeans Aug 28 Aug 28 1 396
Pasadena Council Approves $32 Million Hydrogen Bus Contract, Accelerating Zero-Emission Fleet Conversion 1 Caribbeans Aug 27 Aug 28 1 318
EVs reduce climate pollution, but by how much? New U-M research has the answer 4 OKIsItJustMe Aug 27 Aug 27 3 531
Burgum: people with bad ulterior motives to the US would launch a swarm drone attack through wind farms 5 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 27 Aug 27 3 613
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 1909
Cheyenne to host massive AI data center using more electricity than all Wyoming homes combined 7 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 26 Aug 27 6 463
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 4 415
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 5 669
Google/Alphabet President Gushes Over "Fantastic" DOE Plans To Power AI With 'Incredibly Clean" Coal 4 hatrack Aug 27 Aug 27 3 437
The blue dragon: The spectacular sea slug behind beach closures in Spain 5 cbabe Aug 27 Aug 27 8 679
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 8 363
GA County Commissioners Vote Unanimously To Delay Vote On AI "Hypercenter" After Large-Scale Resident Pushback 0 hatrack Aug 27 Aug 27 7 362
Study - Local Heat Spikes Driven By Deforestation Have Killed +/- 500,000 People Over 20 Years 0 hatrack Aug 27 Aug 27 5 276
Summer 2025 Will "Almost Certainly" Be The Warmest Summer In UK Weather Records Dating Back To 1884 0 hatrack Aug 27 Aug 27 3 285
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 2 264
U.S. underprepared for natural disasters after Trump changes, current and ex-FEMA employees say - CBS News 1 Rhiannon12866 Aug 27 Aug 27 3 282
HD Hyundai Executive Vice Chairman Chung Kisun Meets TerraPower, including Chairman Bill Gates, to Discuss Nuclear ... 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 26 Aug 26 2 384
RWE's Sofia is the UK's first offshore wind farm to use recyclable rotor blades 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 26 Aug 26 2 393
The Biological Consequences of Benny Sovacool's Call for Deep Sea Mining to Go "Green." 0 NNadir Aug 26 Aug 26 2 924
This updated NASA CERES Satellite data shows why we expect much more regional warming in the pipeline. 0 littlemissmartypants Aug 25 Aug 25 5 1111
NASA Earth Science Faces Loss Of More Than Half Its Budget; Data It Provides Spans The Sciences 1 hatrack Aug 25 Aug 25 5 441
'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 5 932
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 1651

Environment & Energy Continued...

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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 2 356
Funding Cut For Only US Icebreaker Available For Antarctic Research; Successor Ship Postponed Indefinitely 2 hatrack Aug 25 Aug 25 3 374
EU Study - European Crop Losses Projected To Increase By 2/3 By 2050, To $29 Billion Annually 0 hatrack Aug 25 Aug 25 2 304
Research Details Devastating Toll of Colonization on Pacific Northwest Wildlife 2 Judi Lynn Aug 25 Aug 25 8 993
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 6 947
As glaciers melt, scientists study potential for more violent volcanic eruptions - PBS NewsHour 5 Rhiannon12866 Aug 23 Aug 24 8 464
Abrupt Antarctic climate shifts could lead to "catastrophic consequences" for years, study finds - CBS News 3 Rhiannon12866 Aug 23 Aug 24 7 464
Monkeys falling from trees and baking barnacles: how heat is driving animals to extinction 1 applegrove Aug 20 Aug 24 6 483
Goodbye to polluting trucks--Walmart unveils the first green hydrogen vehicle approved in Latin America 0 Caribbeans Aug 24 Aug 24 2 333
Great white sharks head north, following seals and alarming beachgoers 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 24 Aug 24 7 586
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 6 671
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 12 711
The Plan to Turn the Caribbean's Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel 1 Judi Lynn Aug 24 Aug 24 7 487
Antarctic submarine canyons may negatively impact ocean circulation, iceshelf thinning and the climate. 1 Tonk Aug 24 Aug 24 7 502
Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory 7 douglas9 Aug 23 Aug 24 9 596
Sacramento Food Trucks Embrace Clean Energy with Hydrogen Fuel Cells at Tahoe Park Event 1 Caribbeans Aug 23 Aug 23 3 249
Trump halts work on New England offshore wind project that's nearly complete 4 Eugene Aug 23 Aug 23 10 537
2024 Melting On Svalbard "In A Different League", Even When Compared W. Prior Records In 2020, 2022 3 hatrack Aug 23 Aug 23 7 383
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 4 447
"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 2094
Lysenko 2.0 - US Science Policy Rapidly Declining Under Weight Of Official Lies, Greed And Stupidity 1 hatrack Aug 23 Aug 23 20 428
Top Industry Analyst: Fires, Floods, Record Heat Herald "The Beginning Of The Age Of Non-Tourism" 2 hatrack Aug 23 Aug 23 4 442
Hydrogen's reawakening has market on verge of a breakthrough 1 Caribbeans Aug 22 Aug 23 3 419
A Lovely Scientific Paper Out of Ghana on the Use of Americium. 0 NNadir Aug 23 Aug 23 1 380
Unable to Afford Platinum for Its Fuel Cells, Alstom Switches Its Trains From Hydrogen Back to Diesel. 3 NNadir Aug 22 Aug 22 2 848
Temporary slowdown in melting of Arctic sea ice, study finds 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 2 352
Heat-stressed Australian forests are thinning fast, producing carbon emissions 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 4 381
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 0 137
'They're not going to live normally': A devastating disease has surged in Calif. 19 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 19 Aug 22 27 1568
"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 7 635

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 5 328
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 4 451
Brazil Abandons Soy Moratorium, Opening Area The Size Of Portugal To New Deforestation 4 hatrack Aug 22 Aug 22 4 608
In Namibia, Even Desert-Adapted Species Hammered By Increasingly Extreme Droughts Driven By Global Warming 0 hatrack Aug 22 Aug 22 3 295
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 4 257
Pickett Fire (Napa County near Calistoga) Hits 2,100 Acres w/i Hours Of Outbreak: Evacuations Ordered 0 hatrack Aug 22 Aug 22 2 324
Breaking the Rules to Build a Better Battery 7 OKIsItJustMe Aug 21 Aug 22 4 499
Ash dieback is triple whammy for net zero plans 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 5 431
BC's Coastal Fires Have Entered a New Era 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 21 Aug 21 6 586
Shitstain Ordered MI Coal Plant To Remain Open; Operating Costs $1 Million/Day - And Guess Who's Going To Pay? 5 hatrack Aug 21 Aug 21 10 793
"Green Hydrogen Is Finally in the Pipes" as Sinopec Begins Historic Blend Into China's Gas Grid 23 Caribbeans Aug 2 Aug 21 1 989
Florida's climate-focused tech sector faces uncertainty after federal cuts - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Aug 21 Aug 21 2 411
Oz's Mountain Ash Trees - Up to 80M High - Lose +/- 9% Of Their Limited Numbers For Each 1C Temperature Increase 0 hatrack Aug 21 Aug 21 4 332
U.S. developers report half of new electric generating capacity will come from solar 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 20 Aug 21 4 412
Land Mines As Wildlife Protection: Korea's DMZ One Of The Most Biodiverse Places In Asia 1 hatrack Aug 21 Aug 21 3 333
Driven By Drought, UK Grain Harvest Begins 2 Weeks Early; Apples Boom But Potatoes, Brassicae In Big Trouble 0 hatrack Aug 21 Aug 21 5 364
Ozone will warm planet more than first thought, study finds 0 Jim__ Aug 21 Aug 21 7 523
How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon 20 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 17 Aug 20 3 912
Abrupt Antarctic changes could have catastrophic consequences if emissions don't fall 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 20 Aug 20 10 644
Well, Good Luck W. That: Brazil Issues "Urgent Call" For National Climate Plans - Exactly 28 Submitted So Far 1 hatrack Aug 20 Aug 20 7 544
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