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5 votes
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California El Dorado wildfire sparked by device to reveal baby's gender
14 votes -
People who live near the most toxic sites in America say they saw a level of attention they hadn't seen in decades under Donald Trump
18 votes -
Louisiana’s weak environmental laws are keeping residents in the dark about health risks in the wake of Hurricane Laura's path through dozens of major petrochemical plants and oil refineries
8 votes -
US gives first-ever OK for small commercial nuclear reactor
19 votes -
Demand for whale meat in Norway rising after years of decline – conservationists say relaxing of regulations poses threat to welfare of minke whales
6 votes -
Extreme heat wave targets California as wildfires rage
7 votes -
Gas hydrate dissociation linked to contemporary ocean warming in the southern hemisphere
4 votes -
2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's oldest state park
8 votes -
CA Gov. Gavin Newsom: By this point last year, 4,292 fires had burned 56,000 acres. This year, 7,002 fires have chewed through more than 1.4 million acres.
7 votes -
Polar bear kills man in Norway's Arctic Svalbard islands – experts say polar bears' hunting grounds have diminished as the Arctic ice sheet melts
10 votes -
National Hurricane Center nailed track forecast for Laura within a mile and three days in advance
9 votes -
Norway plans to drill for oil in untouched Arctic areas – critics say plan for fields off Svalbard threatens ecosystem and relations with Russia
6 votes -
Why one expert predicts a major hurricane hitting Houston would be "America's Chernobyl"
8 votes -
How a plan to save the power system disappeared: A federal lab found a way to modernize the grid, reduce reliance on coal, and save consumers billions. Then Trump appointees blocked it
24 votes -
Record heat, unprecedented lightning fire siege in Northern California; more dry lightning to come
11 votes -
Michigan reaches preliminary settlement to pay $600 million to Flint Water Crisis victims
9 votes -
Hundreds of workers fell ill after cleaning up America’s largest industrial disaster without proper gear. At least fifty have died. Twelve years later, they’re still waiting for help
10 votes -
Warming Greenland ice sheet passes point of no return
18 votes -
The millions being made from cardboard theft
7 votes -
The life that springs from dead leaves in streams
4 votes -
Not even a pandemic can stop scientists' multiyear quest to move invasive Olympic mountain goats by helicopter
6 votes -
Satellite images have revealed eleven previously unknown emperor penguin colonies in Antarctica
7 votes -
The evolution of Extinction Rebellion
7 votes -
The final years of Majuro
5 votes -
Preparing for the next hurricane: Storm trackers and other survival tools
5 votes -
Exponential adoption of solar power by opium-growers in Afghanistan
7 votes -
Tahlequah, the orca who carried her dead calf for seventeen days in 2018, is pregnant again
4 votes -
Sea turns blood red as more than 250 whales slaughtered in 'barbaric' hunt in Faroe Islands – environmental activist calls for boycott
14 votes -
The great climate migration has begun
19 votes -
Destroying a way of life to save Louisiana: The state’s $50 billion plan to re-engineer its coastline may wash some fishing communities off the map
4 votes -
California’s Hog Fire is producing its own thunderstorms
4 votes -
Dover clifftops 'buzzing with wildlife' after National Trust takeover
7 votes -
China blows up dam as death toll from flooding rises
12 votes -
Young climate activists are building a movement while growing up — planning mass protests from childhood bedrooms and during school
12 votes -
Greta Thunberg has been awarded a Portuguese rights award and promptly pledged the €1m prize to groups working to protect the environment and halt climate change
13 votes -
Book review: Bad science and bad arguments abound in 'Apocalypse Never' by Michael Shellenberger
2 votes -
One of the most robust laws on climate change yet has been created in Denmark – can legislation really make failing to act on climate change illegal?
5 votes -
Murders, megaprojects and a 'new Panama Canal' in Mexico
3 votes -
Great Lakes water temperatures are blowing away records and could climb higher
5 votes -
Help me understand the significance of EROI?
According to this guy, societal collapse is imminent because a. entropy and b. the high EROI (energy return on investment) afforded to society by the use of energy dense hydrocarbons such as coal...
According to this guy, societal collapse is imminent because a. entropy and b. the high EROI (energy return on investment) afforded to society by the use of energy dense hydrocarbons such as coal and petroleum will decline dramatically in the near future due to the decreasing economic viability of acquiring them and the lack of a similarly high return alternative (barring nuclear fission, which is VeRy DaNgErOuS (and also practically infeasible politically in most countries that can achieve it), and nuclear fusion, which is, of course, perpetually 20 years away) and because this EROI is (according to him) what makes the complexity of modern civilization possible, it is inevitable that we will soon see a corresponding decline in said complexity (collapse). Now there is a section in the wikipedia article that touches on some of these points (Economic influence) so it's not totally junk science (if you trust Wikipedia, that is). However, I'm still struggling to grasp the significance of this figure. As long as our means of acquiring energy is scalable, why does it matter what the EROI is as long as it is greater than 1? if we need to spend one fifth of the energy we get from solar panels on making more, fixing existing ones, and installation, can't we just make a bunch of them to match our energy needs, even if they're growing? What am I missing here?
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Work has begun on Viking Link, the world's longest electricity interconnector which will allow power to travel between the UK and Denmark
5 votes -
Climate change has likely already affected global food production
5 votes -
Will climate change upend projections of future forest growth?
6 votes -
Scientists' warning on affluence
11 votes -
The South Pole is warming fast. Very fast.
10 votes -
What we need to know about the pace of decarbonization -- Energy transitions have been among the key defining processes of human evolution
4 votes -
Climate change is an absolute nightmare - this is why
10 votes -
Vermont first state to implement a statewide ban on food waste
10 votes -
There are climate change policies that rural Americans—even Republicans—support
6 votes