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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 7 328
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 4 408
"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 2034
Lysenko 2.0 - US Science Policy Rapidly Declining Under Weight Of Official Lies, Greed And Stupidity 1 hatrack Aug 23 Aug 23 20 397
Top Industry Analyst: Fires, Floods, Record Heat Herald "The Beginning Of The Age Of Non-Tourism" 2 hatrack Aug 23 Aug 23 4 399
Hydrogen's reawakening has market on verge of a breakthrough 1 Caribbeans Aug 22 Aug 23 3 346
A Lovely Scientific Paper Out of Ghana on the Use of Americium. 0 NNadir Aug 23 Aug 23 1 342
Unable to Afford Platinum for Its Fuel Cells, Alstom Switches Its Trains From Hydrogen Back to Diesel. 3 NNadir Aug 22 Aug 22 2 432
Temporary slowdown in melting of Arctic sea ice, study finds 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 2 305
Heat-stressed Australian forests are thinning fast, producing carbon emissions 3 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 4 331
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 0 108
'They're not going to live normally': A devastating disease has surged in Calif. 19 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 19 Aug 22 27 1458
"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 7 560
Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 5 299
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 4 401
Brazil Abandons Soy Moratorium, Opening Area The Size Of Portugal To New Deforestation 4 hatrack Aug 22 Aug 22 4 359
In Namibia, Even Desert-Adapted Species Hammered By Increasingly Extreme Droughts Driven By Global Warming 0 hatrack Aug 22 Aug 22 3 258
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 4 230
Pickett Fire (Napa County near Calistoga) Hits 2,100 Acres w/i Hours Of Outbreak: Evacuations Ordered 0 hatrack Aug 22 Aug 22 2 280
Breaking the Rules to Build a Better Battery 7 OKIsItJustMe Aug 21 Aug 22 4 424
Ash dieback is triple whammy for net zero plans 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 22 Aug 22 5 398
BC's Coastal Fires Have Entered a New Era 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 21 Aug 21 6 546
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 10 729
"Green Hydrogen Is Finally in the Pipes" as Sinopec Begins Historic Blend Into China's Gas Grid 23 Caribbeans Aug 2 Aug 21 1 868
Florida's climate-focused tech sector faces uncertainty after federal cuts - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Aug 21 Aug 21 2 376
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 4 303
U.S. developers report half of new electric generating capacity will come from solar 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 20 Aug 21 4 353
Land Mines As Wildlife Protection: Korea's DMZ One Of The Most Biodiverse Places In Asia 1 hatrack Aug 21 Aug 21 3 295
Driven By Drought, UK Grain Harvest Begins 2 Weeks Early; Apples Boom But Potatoes, Brassicae In Big Trouble 0 hatrack Aug 21 Aug 21 5 336
Ozone will warm planet more than first thought, study finds 0 Jim__ Aug 21 Aug 21 7 496

Environment & Energy Continued...

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How One Woman Is Stalling Green Energy Projects in Oregon 20 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 17 Aug 20 3 799
Abrupt Antarctic changes could have catastrophic consequences if emissions don't fall 2 OKIsItJustMe Aug 20 Aug 20 10 599
Well, Good Luck W. That: Brazil Issues "Urgent Call" For National Climate Plans - Exactly 28 Submitted So Far 1 hatrack Aug 20 Aug 20 7 495
Scientists Lay It Out - Over 100 Misleading Statements And Lies In DOE Climate "Study" Written By Hand-Picked Hacks 3 hatrack Aug 20 Aug 20 17 509
Confimed Chikungunya Cases Top 240,000 Worldwide; Painful, Debilitating Disease Detected In China For First Time 1 hatrack Aug 20 Aug 20 12 555
Why would Trump want algae blooms in the Great Lakes? 6 applegrove Aug 19 Aug 20 8 513
India's Bold Ambition: Pioneering Green Hydrogen on a Global Scale 0 Caribbeans Aug 19 Aug 19 0 224
"A Climate Of Unparalleled Malevolence" - The Permian Extinction And How Deeply The Rate Of CO2 Output Matters 3 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 10 451
As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant At National Weather Servce Offices In Texas 10 hatrack Jul 6 Aug 19 7 1015
North Pacific waters are acidifying more rapidly below the surface 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 19 Aug 19 11 313
Long-Term Biochar Use Found to Sustainably Boost Crop Yields and Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 19 Aug 19 3 1360
Central Valley groundwater pumping, land-sinking stressing Aqueduct. Is there a fix? 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 19 Aug 19 5 251
Soy Exports At 20-Year Low As Rain And Disease Plague Crops In Upper Midwest States 2 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 2 338
1,000s Of Abandoned Boats Of All Types Pollute US Estuaries, Rivers, Beaches, Typically Abandoned After Hurricanes 1 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 6 359
Ocracoke And Hatteras Evacuated: Erin Expected To Bring 20' Waves, Flooding And Erosion 0 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 9 401
"The Misconduct Was Pervasive" - Line 3 Non-Violent Protestor's Felony Conviction Overturned By Appeals Court 0 hatrack Aug 19 Aug 19 7 433
Businesses face 'chaos' as EPA aims to repeal its authority over climate pollution 0 Dulcinea Aug 19 Aug 19 2 317
Will Oil Demand Peak Soon? Trump Administration Doesn't Want to Hear It. -NYT 0 Caribbeans Aug 19 Aug 19 4 344
Jio Set to Launch India's First Hydrogen-Powered Hybrid Scooter at Just ₹17,000 Rupee ($195 USD) 0 Caribbeans Aug 19 Aug 19 1 284
Canada Is Burning In Places It Didn't Burn Before; Atlantic And Prairie Provinces The Heart Of 2025 Fire Season 2 hatrack Aug 17 Aug 18 10 414
1/4 Of Spain's Weather Stations At/Above 104F; Cadiz At 114F; High/Extreme Fire Danger Across Most Of Country 0 hatrack Aug 18 Aug 18 5 311
Top House Democrat Pressing USFS For Accurate Information Re. Fire Crew Numbers, Getting Lies In Response 0 hatrack Aug 18 Aug 18 10 369
Wow! Great tidal turbine: 1 applegrove Aug 17 Aug 18 12 445
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on Democrats' Failures--and Opportunities for a Climate Comeback 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 18 Aug 18 10 324
Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying 3 cliffside Aug 17 Aug 18 9 415
LFSCOE: The True Cost of Solar and Wind Energy in Texas and Germany in Answer to the Question... 1 NNadir Aug 17 Aug 17 1 499
After a Drought Last Year, Ohio Farmers Wished for Rain. Now Downpours Are Destroying Their Crops 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 17 Aug 17 4 320
Micro- And Nano-Plastics Are Literally Everywhere As Treaty Talks Collapse; But We "Can't Afford Despair" - Why Not? 1 hatrack Aug 17 Aug 17 7 317
Stalagmites in Mexican caves reveal duration and severity of drought during the Maya collapse 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 17 Aug 17 14 434
Another gold rush could bring open pit mines to South Dakota's Black Hills 1 mahatmakanejeeves Aug 17 Aug 17 8 326

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Hydrogen Engine or Hydrogen Fuel Cell? Why Not Both? Volvo Trucks takes us inside its two-pronged development strategy 10 Caribbeans Aug 16 Aug 17 1 422
Trump told polluters to email him for an exemption. In California, three places have already been approved 1 Dulcinea Aug 17 Aug 17 8 419
26 In 2023, 39 In 2024: Rising Heat Deaths In El Paso Bring Little In The Way Of Public Health Response 0 hatrack Aug 17 Aug 17 7 300
Jellyfish Shut Down French Nuclear Power Plant - NY Times 2 Caribbeans Aug 16 Aug 17 4 276
60 percent of the world's land area is in a precarious state 5 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 17 7 344
Black metal could give a heavy boost to solar power generation 1 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 17 19 686
'Revolutionary' seafloor fiber sensing reveals how falling ice drives glacial retreat in Greenland 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 16 Aug 16 7 251
How a White House plan to overturn a key EPA regulation threatens children's health - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Aug 16 Aug 16 2 255
Former LCV Head - 20 Years Back, About 20% Of Candidates They Endorsed Were GOP; In 2024, Zero 1 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 7 305
Erin Went From A Category 1 To A Category 5 In 24 Hours And 20 Minutes - Earliest Cat 5 Ever In The Open Atlantic 1 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 6 429
An Economic Argument That the Three Mile Island Meltdown Cost the US 14 Trillion Dollars 14 NNadir Aug 14 Aug 16 3 548
Area Of Spain Burned In Wildfires In 2025 Already Three Times Seasonal Average From 2006 To 2024 0 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 5 259
Overnight Low Temperature Records Set In Israel (96.8F) And Jordan (95F) 1 hatrack Aug 16 Aug 16 8 305
South Korean judges order companies responsible for fatal hydrogen explosion to pay billions of won in damages: reports 0 NNadir Aug 16 Aug 16 0 243
How Hydrogen-Powered Helicopter Flight Could Help Healthcare 1 Caribbeans Aug 16 Aug 16 1 244
Hydrogen Buses Hit the Road in Tasmania with Local Refuelling Tech 1 Caribbeans Aug 15 Aug 16 2 272
SolarStratos Makes History: 9,521 Meters Reached Using Only Solar Power 0 OKIsItJustMe Aug 15 Aug 15 8 222
National Parks In "Survival Mode": Half Big Bend NP Staff Gone, 60 Vacant Positions In AK, No Lifeguards At Assateague 3 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 10 376
National Academy Organizes Rapid Response To Trump's "Scientific" Hackfest Downplaying Climate Threat 6 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 4 328
Homeless Are 1% Of Maricopa County Population, But Made Up 20% Of Deaths In 2024 At Arizona Burn Centers - It's That Hot 0 hatrack Aug 15 Aug 15 9 312
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