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I have thought for a long time that evolution has no answer to plastics. 5 Rustynaerduwell Jan 2024 Jan 2024 9 730
James Hansen et al. Groundhog Day. Another Gobsmackingly Bananas Month. What's Up? 1 OKIsItJustMe Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 656
40% of US electricity is now emissions-free... 8 hunter Jan 2024 Jan 2024 8 812
Arrest warrant issued for Montana man accused of killing thousands of birds, including eagles 3 Eugene Jan 2024 Jan 2024 8 593
Widespread population collapse of African raptors 1 OKIsItJustMe Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 535
Bottled Water Can Contain Hundreds of Thousands of Previously Uncounted Tiny Plastic Bits, Study Finds 9 OKIsItJustMe Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 753
Microplastics in essentially all U.S. Protein Sources (including plant-based proteins) 5 OKIsItJustMe Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 562
This Year's Climate Conference Host Plans To Boost Gas Output By 1/3, But Sustainable Something Something 1 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 469
Copernicus Confirms New Record - 2023 Global Temps 1.48C Above Preindustrial Baseline 0 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 402
Wildfire Risk Mapping Varies Wildly From State To State, Given Recent Record Fires, Beetle Kill 0 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 445
Suck It, Dunleavy! SCOTUS Rejects Appeal To Rehear Federal Veto Of Pebble Mine 0 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 9 527
Hyundai delivered 500 FCEVs in Guangzhou, China 2 Caribbeans Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 632
US Supreme Court declines to hear Exxon, Koch Industries appeal on venue in climate case 0 Eugene Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 660
Yellow school buses are going green with a $1 billion investment 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 574
India Among Nations Most Vulnerable To Heat; Rapid Growth Of AC Making Its Climate Outlook Even Worse 2 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 592
26-Year Oil Industry Veteran From Azerbaijan To Head Climate Talks In 2024; Oh, And He's Their Environment Minister 2 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 588
Scientists - UK Winters Are Going To Be Warmer, Wetter; Floods Like This Week's Will Grow In Scale 0 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 530
Critical Infrastructure Is Sinking Along the US East Coast. (Wired) 1 usonian Jan 2024 Jan 2024 9 704
Alaskan Snow Crab Fishery Closed For Second Straight Year - Marine Heatwave Wiped Out 90% Of Population 8 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 11 1090
Doomsday predictions are a dream for climate deniers 12 walkingman Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 1003
The Clock is Ticking and the Future is at Stake 0 Brenda Jan 2024 Jan 2024 9 628
How Bad Is Sunak's Stance On Oil & Gas? One Of His Former Ministers Just Resigned As Tory MP 0 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 496
Surprise! After Years Of Neglect, What Remains Of England's Flood Barriers Can't Handle This Month's Storms 1 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 1695
State's massive solar project challenges traditional energy stronghold: 'We're both proud and excited' 3 sarchasm Jan 2024 Jan 2024 13 889
'Outrageous': Azerbaijan Picks Former Oil Exec to Head COP29 2 Brenda Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 499
Wyoming coal could be in for a rough year 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 Jan 2024 2 472
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 6 550
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 1370
Germany's CO2 emissions are at their lowest in 7 decades, study shows 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 466
Beaver ponds may exacerbate warming in Arctic, scientists say 5 NickB79 Jan 2024 Jan 2024 4 617

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Satellite imagery analysis shows immense scale of dark fishing industry 2 highplainsdem Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 684
On The Ice Sheet, Hairline Cracks Become Moulins Overnight, Shaking Our Understanding Of Greenland's Stability 1 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 10 934
ZE Energy Sources for Locomotives 1 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 Jan 2024 3 477
Greta Thunberg 21st birthday January 3, 2024. 7 spike jones Jan 2024 Jan 2024 26 1002
Proposed IA CO2 Pipelines Have First Responders Wondering Who Will Pay For Upgraded Airpacks, EV Trucks 0 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 6 577
As 2024 Begins, Great Lakes Ice Cover Lowest In At Least 50 Years 0 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 500
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 2 739
China's BYD is selling more electric cars than Tesla 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2024 Jan 2024 5 598
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 1256
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 6 702
China tests world's largest, 600,000-ton, coal-to-ethanol production plant 4 NickB79 Jan 2024 Jan 2024 1 510
At 18 Months And Counting, Sunak Somehow Can't Find A Chair For Scientific/Climate Advisory Committee 2 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 7 581
Late December Heatwave Crushing Records Across W. Canada; Flooding, Hail Swamp Parts Of Saudi Arabia 0 hatrack Jan 2024 Jan 2024 8 573
US finds Bayer's short GM corn can be safely grown, but hurdles remain 4 NickB79 Jan 2024 Jan 2024 0 837
Reno Takes A Ride Into the Future with Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Buses 8 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Jan 2024 5 1044
Hydrogen-powered Generators Support Safe Rail Operations While Safeguarding the Environment - Union Pacific Rail 13 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 1440
The Race to Breed 'Supercoral' to Save Us From Climate Doom 0 babylonsister Dec 2023 Dec 2023 9 462
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 8 751
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 3753
New Mexico proposes regulations to reuse fracking wastewater 0 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 421
US Treasury moves to restrict hydrogen tax breaks offered by IRA 1 NickB79 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 880
Amazon Basin Drought: "We've Never Seen Anything Like This" 4 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 37 1217
Plug switches on Amazon's first on-site electrolyser in Colorado 1 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 849
It's Complicated - Chronobyl & Fukushima Exclusion Zones Starting To Reveal A "New Ecology" 3 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 712
2023 Marked By Record Warmth And Melting At The North End Of The Antarctic Peninsula 0 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 493
In A Bit More Than 100 Years, 99% Of Southern African Penguins Are Gone - Overfishing, Climate Collapse 0 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 564
The "End Of The World Auction" - Brazil Announces 602 Oil/Gas Lease Sites - Offshore, Rainforest, Park Buffer Zones 0 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 9 631
World's tallest wooden wind turbine starts turning 0 Eugene Dec 2023 Dec 2023 10 624
Company Sells Indigenous Land In Brazil As NFTs w/o Tribe's Knowledge, Because "Carbon Credits" 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 606
Crashworthiness for Alternative Fuel Powered Locomotives 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 438

Environment & Energy Continued...

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How to Make Recyclable Plastics Out of CO2 to Slow Climate Change 2 Judi Lynn Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 643
Japan's Nuclear Regulator OKs Restart Of World's Largest Plant; Local Approvals Pending In Niigata Prefecture 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 562
German Meteorological Office Confirms 2023 Warmest Year Since Records Began In 1881 0 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 4 426
A US map on how we heat, as a nation. Pretty interesting. 10 OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 19 1802
'Tree lobsters': Insects believed to be extinct go on display at San Diego Zoo 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2023 Dec 2023 10 839
Earth's Temperature Has Changed WILDLY, So What's the Big Deal About a Few Degrees? - PBS Terra 0 Rhiannon12866 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 662
Wales, Fearing Another Aberfan Disaster, Angered By Westminster's Inaction On 100s Of Coal Waste Piles 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 19 737
The COP Treadmill Occasionally Spins Faster, But Never Actually Goes Anywhere 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 539
Red Crab Migration Begins On Christmas Island - Number Boosted After Scientists Take On Invasive Ants 2 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 12 1482
2023 - The Year Governments Saw What Was Happening To The Climate & Decided Protestors Were The Problem 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 10 1664
Too late to save the climate? 9 Brenda Dec 2023 Dec 2023 11 1360
Fuel-Cell Revolution: Daimler Truck Pioneers Decarbonisation with Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Trial Fleet 3 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 17597
Fact-check: Are real or artificial Christmas trees better for the environment? 8 Rhiannon12866 Dec 2023 Dec 2023 3 1374
Something positive - Lowest wildfire acreage burned since 1998 1 OnlinePoker Dec 2023 Dec 2023 5 434
Long lines and broken chargers: Demand for powering EVs outpaces infrastructure 6 Caribbeans Dec 2023 Dec 2023 1 8972
Warming Unleashes Acid Flows From Minerals Once Locked Up In Permafrost - Entire Arctic Rivers Devoid Of Life 7 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 14 849
'Mass delusion and wishful thinking': Why everything you think you know about methane is probably wrong 1 OKIsItJustMe Dec 2023 Dec 2023 2 537
Jack-booted Thugs Of AL State Agency Oppressed Landfill Owner After A Mere 20 Years Of Violations 2 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 8 677
+/- 100 Red Handfish Remain In The Wild; Oz Scientists Removing Up To Half To Tanks As Heatwaves Gather 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 7 792
Nimrata Bashing Gov. Whiteboots For His Environmental Record, Which Is Just Waaaay Too "Liberal" 1 hatrack Dec 2023 Dec 2023 6 615
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