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7 votes
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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
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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
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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
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Great Lakes water temperatures are blowing away records and could climb higher
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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 -
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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Climate change has likely already affected global food production
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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
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Climate change is an absolute nightmare - this is why
10 votes -
There are climate change policies that rural Americans—even Republicans—support
6 votes -
Vermont first state to implement a statewide ban on food waste
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Latest UN sustainability goals pose more harm than good for environment, scientists warn
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Tree ring records show increase in extreme weather in South America
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CO2 in Earth's atmosphere nearing levels of fifteen million years ago
5 votes -
Climate change may cause extreme waves in the Arctic
5 votes -
The Atlantic hurricane season is off to a record fast start and is likely to get worse
8 votes -
Spreading rock dust on the ground could pull carbon from the air, researchers say
14 votes -
Germany bans range of single-use plastics including straws and cotton buds
15 votes -
While not a solution, knowing how to recycle and compost can help the environment
5 votes -
Greta Thunberg, the climate campaigner who doesn't like campaigning
4 votes -
California severely short on firefighting crews after COVID-19 lockdown at prison camps
9 votes -
In nearly every part of the world, heatwaves have been increasing in frequency and duration since the 1950s
14 votes -
Risk of 40°C/104°F heat in the UK ‘rapidly increasing’, says Met Office—a temperature never before recorded in the UK could possibly occur as frequently as once every 3.5 years by 2100
11 votes -
Towards carbon negativity—Basecamp announces intentions to back-purchase carbon credits to cover all emitted carbon emissions, and offset more than emitted post-2020
6 votes -
Hundreds of elephants dead in mysterious mass die-off
11 votes -
Siberian wildfires swell amid historic heatwave, as highs of 38°C reported north of the arctic circle
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Climate change: The South Pole feels the heat, as warming over the Antarctic continent took place at three times the global rate since 1989
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Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea near Stockholm, global body says
12 votes -
Plastic rain: More than 1,000 tons of microplastic rain onto western US every year, study estimates
7 votes -
Why locusts are descending on East Africa
4 votes -
Elegy for a country's seasons [2014]
4 votes -
Bottled water manufactured by Whole Foods and sold in most of its US stores and on Amazon contains potentially harmful levels of arsenic
12 votes -
Bill Gates-backed carbon capture plant does the work of forty million trees
6 votes -
Parks vs. people: In Guatemala, communities take best care of the forest
4 votes -
Hottest Arctic temperature record probably set with 100°F/37°C reading in Siberia
9 votes -
When the giant Galapagos tortoise faced extinction, Diego answered the call
6 votes -
Overconsumption and growth economy key drivers of environmental crises
7 votes