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Hydrogen-fueled drone submarine with 17 sensors could scan Hormuz for naval mines 0 Caribbeans May 14 May 14 0 544
Multiple Large-Scale "Carbon Capture" Projects Slated For Illinois; Increasingly, Residents Aren't Buying The Story 4 hatrack May 9 May 14 7 926
US Drinking Water Systems Under Growing Strain From Coast To Coast - Drought, Floods, Debris Flows 1 hatrack May 13 May 14 9 644
El Nino Teeing Up A Major Fire Year; Drought Already Hit SE Asia; Globally, Alaska-Sized Area Has Already Burned 1 hatrack May 13 May 14 4 582
Vibrio Bacteria Pushing North To Seas Once Too Cold To Support It, Like Gulf Of Maine; +/- 100 Fatalities/Year In US 2 hatrack May 13 May 14 4 481
Sustainability Blahblah Clean Fuels Blah - European Airline Emissions Higher Than Pre-COVID; Ryanair Up 50% Since 2019 2 hatrack May 10 May 14 4 532
Sen. Whitehouse: "We Must Not let Creeping Political Influence Compromise the NRC" 0 Rhiannon12866 May 14 May 14 4 435
Oceans Are Warming? Senate Republicans Disagree. - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 3 Rhiannon12866 May 13 May 14 5 621
Data Centers Already Using 6% Of Electricity Available In The US And The UK; Pushback Begins At 5% 5 hatrack May 13 May 14 8 767
Pardon me if this was posted earlier: Summer is getting longer, and it's happening faster than we thought 4 OKIsItJustMe May 13 May 13 7 726
Electricity could produce cement with almost no carbon footprint 0 OKIsItJustMe May 13 May 13 9 580
Study Finds Wetter Storms Mean Drier Conditions Over Time 0 OKIsItJustMe May 13 May 13 3 390
When the Schuylkill swallowed the city: Lessons from Hurricane Ida's historic flood 2 OKIsItJustMe May 13 May 13 6 680
Time to Wake Up #307: The Mischief Continues - Senator Sheldon Whitehouse 5 Rhiannon12866 May 13 May 13 26 1274
Newly recognized pollutant widely present in atmosphere 1 OKIsItJustMe May 13 May 13 10 725
Governor Sherrill, NJ, Working to Keep Her Nuclear Promise. 1 NNadir May 13 May 13 4 486
Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan 0 thought crime May 13 May 13 12 548
LIDAR Flights Reveal Western Snowpack Crisis; California's Snowpack Was At 18% Of Avg 4/1, Declining Since Then 0 hatrack May 13 May 13 5 537
A New Study Explains How Carbon Dioxide Cools the Upper Atmosphere--and Warms Earth Below 0 OKIsItJustMe May 13 May 13 2 388
UC Irvine team identifies where renewable hydrogen delivers the greatest social benefit 0 OKIsItJustMe May 12 May 12 1 411
How underwater speakers are helping revive coral reefs devastated by climate change - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 May 12 May 12 10 845
This 600-Mile Liquid Hydrogen eVTOL Just Got A 20-Aircraft Order 1 Caribbeans May 11 May 12 9 626
Lobbying battle intensifies as E15 ethanol bill nears US vote 1 Eugene May 12 May 12 0 476
'I couldn't breathe': the sinister spread of France's killer seaweed 1 cbabe May 12 May 12 10 695
A Uranium Adsorbing Alginate Polyacylonitrile Membrane With Superior Regeneration Performance. 9 NNadir May 10 May 12 3 1437
As drought worsens, Western states brace for wildfires, water shortages 3 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 11 May 11 8 536
Oil Crisis? How about we Reduce Demand? Here's How 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 11 May 11 4 580
It looks like the Mauna Loa CO2 Observatory's Instrument is back up, with the second highest measurement ever seen. 0 NNadir May 11 May 11 7 1146
"Green Finance", "Carbon Offsets" Just More Ways To Greenwash, Create Market Plays While Doing Nothing For Climate 3 hatrack May 11 May 11 4 692
No One Is Certain, But EPA Estimates That There are 3.7 Million Abandoned US Oil/Gas Wells, 58% Of Them Unsealed 4 hatrack May 10 May 11 18 1018

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Airline emissions in Europe top pre-Covid levels despite pledge to decarbonise 2 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 10 3 515
"It Is Time To Close The Chapter On FEMA" - Trump Committee Plans To Deliberately Destroy Federal Emergency Response 7 hatrack May 10 May 10 22 1128
Odd But Interesting: GQP Senate Candidate In LA Staking His Campaign On Opposing "Carbon Capture" Projects 0 hatrack May 10 May 10 5 539
It turns out there is an analytical reason we will not get a weekly data point at Mauna Loa for the 2nd time in half... 3 NNadir May 9 May 10 9 723
Um, delicious!!! Recovery of Highly Toxic Tellurium Used for Super Efficient Solar Cells. 1 NNadir May 8 May 10 1 783
German Engineers Packed Hydrogen Into Hollow Tractor Wheels. Now the Machines Run All Day Without Heavy Batteries 4 Caribbeans May 9 May 9 20 1497
Concentrated Solar Power finds a new Niche 3 thought crime May 8 May 9 3 772
World's largest nuclear facility could be built in Ontario with new $300M deal 5 OnlinePoker May 7 May 9 3 676
Toxic Heavy Metals - Tungsten, Selenium, Arsenic - Concentrating In San Luis Valley Water Supply As Drought Stretches On 1 hatrack May 9 May 9 4 468
Superfund Sites In New Jersey Awaiting Cleanup For 40 Years Or More; W. EPA Gutted, Remediation Grinding To A Halt 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 6 408
Senior Interior Official Flat-Out Said Changes In Federal Grazing Policy Personally Enriched Her - 6 Months Ago 0 hatrack May 9 May 9 6 439
The disaster unfolding on Russia's Black Sea coast is of its own making 0 mahatmakanejeeves May 9 May 9 5 598
War. What is it good for? Absolutely Nothing. But... 0 thought crime May 8 May 8 1 430
'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level, study finds 16 OKIsItJustMe May 4 May 8 13 1561
NOAA/ESRL - April 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content: 431.12 ppm; April 2025 429.64 ppm; April 2024 426.51 ppm 6 hatrack May 8 May 8 2 651
Antarctica sea ice collapse driven by triple whammy of climate chaos, scientists find 1 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 10 505
New solar cells hit 30% efficiency and still work after 1,000 hours of power 3 Caribbeans May 7 May 8 6 770
Saskatchewan's plan to extend life of coal power to cost $26B over 25 years: NDP 0 OnlinePoker May 8 May 8 1 368
Trump's crackdown on China-linked solar firms stalls U.S. factory boom 0 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 6 498
EU purchases from Russia's largest natural gas field hit record 3bn (pounds) 0 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 1 412
Nutrient imbalance may drive coral disease more than heat stress, new study suggests 0 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 3 353
New Material Technology Boasts High-Performance Carbon Dioxide Absorption 0 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 2 391
Turning plastic waste into clean fuel using sunlight 1 OKIsItJustMe May 8 May 8 8 537
Brilliant idea for ocean based power generation on front page of the Financial Times yesterday 32 Pluvious May 6 May 8 44 4491
The Pentagon is delaying wind power development -- even on private land 4 applegrove May 7 May 7 9 724
'Indian Nino' Drove Record Heat in 2023 and 2024, New UMD Study Finds 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 437
Hidden methane emerging from beneath the ice reveals Greenland's sensitivity to climate change 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 738
How trees in urban areas are key to cooling down a warmer world 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 5 488
Study Projects Plant Extinction Rates Through 2100. (7% to 16% of global plant species at high risk of extinction) 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 409
Forest Fuel Treatments Reduce Wildfire Spread, Prevent $2.8 Billion in Damage 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 6 548

Environment & Energy Continued...

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When faith meets a melting point: New study warns Hajj pilgrimage is breaching human survivability limits 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 9 587
Scientists stunned: Volcano cleans up after itself by removing methane from the air 2 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 6 765
Rapidly melting Antarctic ice shelves may cause global sea levels to rise far faster than expected - new study 3 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 628
Deforestation lessens Amazon rainfall, and climate change hastens that process 0 OKIsItJustMe May 7 May 7 4 356
Odds Improve For The El Nino Currently Building In The Pacific To Be The Hottest Ever Recorded 2 hatrack May 7 May 7 6 680
China's Green Hydrogen Production Capacity Surpasses 1.1 Million Tons 1 Caribbeans May 5 May 7 2 536
Norway Prepares To Meet A Climate-Shattered Future By . . . Extending Natural Gas Production Until 2048!!! 1 hatrack May 7 May 7 4 483
Who Will Decide Whether Roundup Requires Cancer Warnings? The 9 Toxicologists Of The Supreme Court, Of Course 1 hatrack May 7 May 7 9 523
Imagine falling off the roof of a 565 foot building. 5 hunter May 2 May 7 6 1195
A Discussion, Written Before the War, of the Properties of Ukrainian Used Nuclear Fuel in a Russian Journal. 3 NNadir May 5 May 7 3 671
Oregon's 2026 Fire Season Began In March; It's Expected To End Sometime In October 0 hatrack May 7 May 7 0 371
Mexico City Sinking At Rate Of Up To 2 Cm/month, As Revealed By New NASA Orbital Radar System 1 hatrack May 7 May 7 4 482
Pushback To Car Bloat May Be Growing In Europe As Popularity Of American Testosterone Shitwagons Grows 0 hatrack May 7 May 7 6 630
Electrification and energy efficiency 1 thought crime May 5 May 6 5 556
Ford Just Wrote Off $20 Billion In Dumped EV Investments, But Swears An "Affordable" EV Pickup On Its Way 2 hatrack May 6 May 6 6 669
Corporate Grain & Fertilizer Insiders Bank $66 Milliion From Shares Sold Since Iran War Jacked Up Price Of Everything 0 hatrack May 6 May 6 4 428
For 60 Years, Texas Legislature Rejected Over 60 Flood Safety Bills Limiting Development In Known Flood Zones 1 hatrack May 6 May 6 6 677
August 2025 Rockslide Tsunami Reached 1,500+ Feet In Height In Alaskan Fjord Routinely Visited By Cruise Ships 0 hatrack May 6 May 6 7 637
Is Trump's DOJ Now Big Oil's Personal Law Firm? - Thom Hartmann 0 Rhiannon12866 May 6 May 6 7 422
"It's Coming:" Energy Expert on Iran Oil Shock's Impact on U.S. - Amanpour and Company PBS 0 Rhiannon12866 May 6 May 6 6 513
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