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The Guardian: Huge election year worldwide sees weakening commitment to act on climate crisis 1 OKIsItJustMe Nov 23 Nov 23 4 346
(The Guardian) Revealed: Saudi Arabia accused of modifying official Cop29 negotiating text 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 23 Nov 23 5 325
A Tale of Two Wildfires, Mercury Releases in an Alaska Peat Fire, Radionuclides in a Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Fire. 0 NNadir Nov 23 Nov 23 3 799
First Ever Video Of Hydrogen And Oxygen Becoming Water At A Molecular Level Has Been Captured 3 Caribbeans Nov 23 Nov 23 11 1378
AP: Trump gave Interior nominee one directive for a half-billion acres of US land: 'Drill.' 8 OKIsItJustMe Nov 23 Nov 23 6 573
AP: Louisiana's governor raises major doubts about a stalled $3 billion coastal restoration project 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 23 Nov 23 5 3876
AP: Trump's against climate action. But some right-wing governments are all for it 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 23 Nov 23 3 287
Coho Salmon Return To Upper Klamath After Decades Of Denial That They Ever Lived In The River 2 hatrack Nov 23 Nov 23 14 416
Last Chance To See: Phillips 66 Faces Federal Felony For Dumping Oily Wastewater Into LA Sewer System 0 hatrack Nov 23 Nov 23 4 391
Study Projects Dengue Rates 2x+ Higher In Parts Of Latin America; Local Infections Confirmed In 5 US States 0 hatrack Nov 23 Nov 23 4 315
Spain Whipsaws Between Drought And Flood, While Water Bottling Companies Drain The Aquifers 1 hatrack Nov 23 Nov 23 7 421
Climate Summit Drama!! Australia And Turkey Duke It Out Over Hosting The Shitshow In 2026 0 hatrack Nov 23 Nov 23 0 252
Report: "Catastrophic" Marine Heatwaves Will Hurt Entire Ecosystems, Not Just Remaining UK Fisheries 0 hatrack Nov 23 Nov 23 6 299
AP: Here's what happened when experts at COP29 played a climate change board game 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 23 Nov 23 3 342
AGU: Staggering temperature rise predicted for the Middle East and North Africa 2 OKIsItJustMe Nov 22 Nov 23 13 836
'The land is tearing itself apart': life on a collapsing Arctic isle 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 23 Nov 23 11 521
Kairos PR: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Approves Construction Permits for Hermes 2 Demonstration Plant 3 OKIsItJustMe Nov 22 Nov 23 2 328
Trump's science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate 'solutions' are now the stuff of total delusion 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 23 Nov 23 3 364
How are U.S. winters permanently changing? - CBS News 2 Rhiannon12866 Nov 22 Nov 22 6 551
A nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future 5 OKIsItJustMe Nov 22 Nov 22 6 420
NREL: Residential and Utility Solar Costs (2010 - 2023) 9 OKIsItJustMe Nov 21 Nov 22 3 532
Researchers Identify Previously Unknown Compound in Drinking Water 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 22 Nov 22 4 345
Antarctic Sea Ice Season Finishes With 2nd-Lowest Extent In 46-Year Instrumental Record 2 hatrack Nov 22 Nov 22 5 319
Japan's $26 Billion Discovery Could Change Its Fortunes 6 Judi Lynn Nov 22 Nov 22 13 1099
TBH, We Need To Be Thinking In Terms Of CO2E - That Is, CO2 Equivalent 1 hatrack Nov 22 Nov 22 8 309
Slender-BIlled Curlew, Last Photographed In 1995, Is Likely Extinct 0 hatrack Nov 22 Nov 22 4 397
Time to Wake Up 285: COP29 and the Global Economic Consequences of Climate Change - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 4 Rhiannon12866 Nov 22 Nov 22 5 464
Trying To Protect Groundwater By Delaying Rice Planting Made N. India's Legendary Air Pollution Even Worse 0 hatrack Nov 22 Nov 22 4 302
In 1999, Oil & Gas Produced 33% Of LA Economic Output; Now It's 14%; State's Obvious Solution - More Tax Cuts!!! 0 hatrack Nov 22 Nov 22 2 324
Study: Increasing Home Insurance Premiums By $500 Enough To Produce 20% Spike In Mortgage Delinquencies 0 hatrack Nov 22 Nov 22 7 408

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Biden Administraton Dumps Planned Support For Limits On Plastic Production, Jolting Treaty Talks 0 hatrack Nov 22 Nov 22 3 375
Azeri Officials Block COP29.com Website After It Was Acquired By Global Witness To Target Oil Majors 0 hatrack Nov 22 Nov 22 2 262
The Critics Rave!! CRAP 29 "One Of The Most Poorly Led And Chaotic Meetings Ever" 0 hatrack Nov 22 Nov 22 3 382
The Use of AI for Adding Sense in Characterizing Environmental Microplastics and Trash. 0 NNadir Nov 21 Nov 21 2 289
CRAP29 Key Document - How Much Finance For The Global South - A "Blank Piece Of Paper" 0 hatrack Nov 21 Nov 21 3 239
NC State: Garden Produce Grown Near Fayetteville Works Fluorochemical Plant Contains GenX, Other PFAS 2 OKIsItJustMe Nov 21 Nov 21 3 319
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research: Environmental Impacts of Plastics: Moving beyond the perspective on waste 2 OKIsItJustMe Nov 21 Nov 21 1 290
Projected 10-30% Increase In Natural Gas Power Generation Because Muh AI Datacenters Must Be Fed!!! Oh, And Coal, Too 10 hatrack Nov 21 Nov 21 6 603
A Message For Former President Trump 4 red dog 1 Nov 21 Nov 21 9 457
Japan: Demonstrating Low-Cost Hydrogen Models Using Existing Infrastructures - a 3D Video 0 Caribbeans Nov 21 Nov 21 3 348
PR Management in Hydrogen Explosions: Lessons from Three Hydrogen Explosions in Korea. 8 NNadir Nov 16 Nov 21 4 640
US Unveils Plan to Triple Nuclear Power by 2050 as Demand Soars 19 FBaggins Nov 12 Nov 21 7 807
CPKC, ATCO EnPower complete construction of Alberta hydrogen production, refueling stations 1 Caribbeans Nov 20 Nov 21 1 276
Why are wind and solar being deployed faster than nuclear? 14 OKIsItJustMe Nov 20 Nov 21 12 718
Shitstain, Techbros, Corporations Aren't Climate/Science Deniers - They're At War Against Material Reality 4 hatrack Nov 21 Nov 21 10 463
US Fish & Wildlife Service Preparing To List Giraffes As An Endangered Species 4 hatrack Nov 20 Nov 21 4 346
Colorado River Basin States As Deeply Divided As Ever While 2026 Deadline Moves Inexorably Closer 0 hatrack Nov 21 Nov 21 2 293
Wildfires Prompt Ecuador Government To Declare 60-Day National Emergency; 40K Hectares Of Crops Burned 0 hatrack Nov 21 Nov 21 2 225
Biodiverse And Remote, Yukon's Qikaqktaruk Island Is Literally Dissolving Into The Sea As Permafrost Melts 1 hatrack Nov 21 Nov 21 4 321
Why Trump's Energy Secretary is the Most TERRIFYING Trump Cabinet Pick Yet! - Thom Hartmann 2 Rhiannon12866 Nov 21 Nov 21 8 1328
OSU: Turning carbon emissions into methane fuel - New method offers potential for abundant energy savings, study finds 4 OKIsItJustMe Nov 20 Nov 21 0 340
Superior photosynthesis abilities of some plants could hold key to climate-resilient crops 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 20 Nov 20 6 285
65,000 Hospitalizations In Pakistan As Lahore Pollution Index Passes 2,000; 3 Day Lockdown Imposed 2 hatrack Nov 20 Nov 20 5 379
Delhi Defines AQ Levels Of 0-50 As "Good"; Today's Air Pollution Reading 484 As Choking Smog Descends On Metropolis 0 hatrack Nov 20 Nov 20 5 692
Heating of the planet causes a 'real life jenga game' as insurers leave disaster areas: Author - MSNBC Reports 0 Rhiannon12866 Nov 20 Nov 20 6 341
Shanghai exports world's first solid-state hydrogen storage device via ship 0 Caribbeans Nov 20 Nov 20 2 326
An Amusing Paper on Education about Extreme Global Heating (often euphemized as "climate change." ) 0 NNadir Nov 20 Nov 20 3 294
PR: Commonwealth Fusion Systems Magnet Success Propels Fusion Energy Toward the Grid 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 20 Nov 20 1 248
Massive Recall of Hydrogen Cars Because of Explosion Risk. 0 NNadir Nov 20 Nov 20 4 364
PPPL: Spinning fusion fuel for efficiency 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 20 Nov 20 1 239

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Awards for Up to $2.2 Billion for Two Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs 0 Caribbeans Nov 20 Nov 20 3 334
PR: Eco Wave Power Receives Final Permit from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for First Onshore Wave Energy Project at ... 19 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 Nov 20 2 721
University of Houston: Revolutionizing Tech to Produce Sustainable Fuel 11 OKIsItJustMe Nov 17 Nov 20 1 489
Linde Plant Hydrogen Explosion in Germany Leaves 1/4 of Its H2 Filling Stations Closed (Date: 10/29/24) 4 NNadir Nov 16 Nov 20 1 613
NASA satellites reveal abrupt drop in global freshwater levels 3 SorellaLaBefana Nov 20 Nov 20 8 3529
Carbon Recycling Instead of Plastic Trash - Iron electrocatalysis breaks down polystyrene and delivers green hydrogen 2 OKIsItJustMe Nov 20 Nov 20 5 385
Since 2019, Alliance To End Plastic Waste Members (Oil Majors) Have Created 1,000X More Plastic Than They've Cleaned Up 1 hatrack Nov 20 Nov 20 4 551
Oil Majors Hyped Plastic Recycling To Clean Up Bali; Program Now In Debt And Swimming In Even More Plastic Trash 0 hatrack Nov 20 Nov 20 3 398
The Andes' Translucent Glass Frogs Need to Be Seen to Be Saved 1 Judi Lynn Nov 20 Nov 20 5 519
MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 20 Nov 20 2 284
Waseda University: Transforming Anion Exchange Membranes in Water Electrolysis for Green Hydrogen Production 4 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 Nov 20 1 351
Penn State: American soil losing more crop nutrients due to heavier rainstorms, study shows 2 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 Nov 19 6 3380
Recycling Batteries with Citric Acid - Highly efficient recycling process for NCM lithium-ion batteries 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 Nov 19 3 273
You Don't Say! Oil Majors Dumping Token Renewable/Alt-Fuel Efforts; More Money W. The Same Old Shit 2 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 4 315
New York City Issues 1st Drought Warning In 22 Years; Engineers End Delaware Aqueduct Repairs (Not Enough H2O Elsewhere) 2 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 4 295
Oh Well!!! A Castrated Federal Govt. Facing A New Age Of Wildfires In Forests That Haven't Been "Cleaned" 0 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 3 286
Enormous cache of rare earth elements hidden inside coal ash waste, study suggests 1 Jim__ Nov 19 Nov 19 5 396
Study Suggests Atlantic Conveyer Current (AMOC) Will Lose 1/3 Of Volume At 2C Rise Over Preindustrial Temperatures 6 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 8 507
PR: SANY Renewable Energy Successfully Installs the 15-MW Onshore Wind Turbine 0 OKIsItJustMe Nov 19 Nov 19 2 243
Oh Well!!! "Drill Baby Drill" Won't Happen, Because Oil Companies Manage For Profitability, Not Quantity 6 hatrack Nov 19 Nov 19 4 588
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