Icelandic volcano located near the famous Blue Lagoon has erupted once again – the fifth such eruption since December
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How a simple fix could double the size of the US electricity grid
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Illegal tin mining due to smart phone demand tied to deadly crocodile attacks
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Mexico City and Bogotá stare down a ‘Day Zero’ without water
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LA County captures ninety-six billion gallons of water during ‘super year’ of storms
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Surge in India’s renewables set to keep coal’s share below 50% in total installed capacity
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'Absolute miracle' breakthrough provides recipe for zero-carbon cement
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Icelanders are famously hardy, but after volcanic eruptions cracked open twenty-metre-deep fissures in Grindavík, residents are asking if they'll ever be allowed back home
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Carbon pricing works, meta-review finds
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Alaskan rivers are turning orange
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California solar installs down for 2024, but battery installs up
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Norway sued over deep-sea mining plans – WWF says the government has breached the law without adequately assessing the consequences
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How 3M covered up "forever chemicals"
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Fast-rising seas could swamp septic systems in parts of the American South
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EU's Green Deal improved its climate performance: a 1.5°C pathway is close
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Nova Scotia’s billion-dollar lobster wars
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Google will send the waste heat from its data center in Hamina, Finland, to that community's district heating system
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New GPS-based method can measure daily ice loss in Greenland
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Rice has a methane problem that a startup is promising to fix
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Spending an afternoon in the Sizewell [nuclear reactor] control-room simulator
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Europe's gas supply once again hinges on one company – Equinor now plays an outsized role in the ups and downs of the continent's gas prices
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Canada’s fire season erupts, sending harmful smoke into United States
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What is a keystone species, and why are they so important?
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Cryptocurrency mining as a novel virtual energy storage system in islanded and grid-connected microgrids
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Landmark study definitively shows that conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss
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New rules to overhaul US electric grids could boost wind and solar power
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At least 147 dead in monumental flood in Brazil. 127 missing.
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Carbon dioxide pipelines and underground injection can cut greenhouse gas, but community opposition is fierce
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I understand climate scientists’ despair – but stubborn optimism may be our only hope
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A skeptic’s take on beaming power to Earth from space - Why we shouldn’t try to stick solar plants where the sun always shines
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‘Hopeless and broken’: why the world’s top climate scientists are in despair
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Powering homes with PVT energy, Stirling engines, battery storage
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A big new facility built to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere opened up in Iceland. It's a stepping stone to bigger plans in the US.
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PG&E rates: new fee would change monthly Californian electricity charges
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GlobalUsefulNativeTrees, a database documenting 14,014 tree species, supports synergies between biodiversity recovery and local livelihoods in landscape restoration
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Revealed: Tyson Foods dumps millions of pounds of toxic pollutants into US rivers and lakes
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‘I’m a blue whale, I’m here’: researchers listen with delight to songs that hint at Antarctic resurgence
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Big farms are under pressure to address the problem of dying salmon in Norway's vast fish-farm industry
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What your next water heater will look like
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New EPA regulation requires coal plants in the United States to reduce 90 percent of their greenhouse pollution by 2039
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America’s wind power production drops for the first time in twenty-five years
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Climate policy is working – double down on what’s succeeding instead of despairing over what’s not
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Humans might need to re-engineer the climate
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Commercial operation marks completion of Vogtle expansion
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First Nations woman one of seven global winners of prestigious Goldman prize for environmental activism
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A golden age of renewables is beginning, and California is leading the way
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Rooftop solar panels are flooding California’s grid. That’s a problem.
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Solar power is changing life deep in the Amazon
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Plant apocalypse: how new diseases are destroying EU trees and crops
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Earth Day 2024 megathread
It's Earth day again, and we haven't had a post about it yet in ~enviro. Let's use this space to collect and discuss news articles or other postings that are relevant today.
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