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Escape Velocity: The energy transition has momentum and will be hard to stop

Via: bob-nelson • Environment/Climate • 3 Comments • 16 hours ago

This is important. The energy transition - from fossil fuels to electricity - is now . China is leading it. America is trying to stop it. America is willfully being backward. Losing more...

New Pact Would Require Ships to Cut Emissions or Pay a Fee

Via: bob-nelson • Environment/Climate • 11 Comments • 2 weeks ago

" United States pulled out of the talks earlier in the week. " Of course we did. There are links in the seed.

America's clean-energy industry is growing despite Trump's attacks. At least for now.

Via: hallux • Environment/Climate • 27 Comments • one month ago

How Chinese automakers took over Mexico's car market & shocked America

Via: bob-nelson • Environment/Climate • 6 Comments • 5 months ago

My RSS feeds come from the US, UK, and France. My YouTube subscriptions have the same origins,. plus this Australian. Different points of view. Nota for Buzz: the title says it all.

Coal power plant approvals in China crash as China adds 210GW of renewables

Via: bob-nelson • Environment/Climate • 22 Comments • 5 months ago

I'm... tired... of hearing about the craziness that's happening in America these days, so... here's a video about two countries, and neither is the USA. The world is continuing to turn....

VW To Close At Least 3 Plants in Germany

Via: bob-nelson • Environment/Climate • 12 Comments • 6 months ago

Poisoned trees gave a wealthy couple a killer view — and united residents in outrage

Via: hallux • Environment/Climate • 7 Comments • 10 months ago

Inside the pressures facing Quebec’s billion-dollar maple syrup industry

Via: hallux • Environment/Climate • 41 Comments • last year

Can a Tiny Truck Outwork a BIG Truck??

Via: outis • Environment/Climate • 21 Comments • last year

I'm a city boy. Never spent any time on a farm. So when talk turns to the "usefulness" of pickup trucks, I have a problem. But KARMA! Here's a farmer to talk about them...

All the Ways Car Dependency Is Wrecking Us

Via: outis • Environment/Climate • 35 Comments • last year

Let's be clear: this is CityNerd . It's a site about CITIES . Wyoming and Montana and Idaho are wonderful places, but they aren't what I'd call "urban". So please, please, please...

2024 SkS Weekly Climate Change & Global Warming News Roundup #12

Via: outis • Environment/Climate • 2 Comments • last year

I've seen a lot of erroneous "information" on NT. Some is just out of date, some is intentionally misleading. If you want resources for more accurate information, you can subscribe to...

There have been five mass extinctions in Earth's history

Via: outis • Environment/Climate • 11 Comments • last year

I've seen several articles lately, indicating a shift in climate-skeptics' positions. They no longer really deny that climate change is happening - they simply do not intend to do anything...

This Is the Thing That Will Destroy Our Cities

Via: outis • Environment/Climate • 3 Comments • last year

I find CityNerd informative, entertaining and instructive. I live in the Southwest, where we have endless must-have-a-car suburbs. Neighborhoods vary from near-slums to McMansions.

Floating spiders and insect-eating plants: leaky dams revive Dorset's bogs

Via: outis • Environment/Climate • 2 Comments • last year

Rewilding, again...

Trapping Crawfish for the 5 Acre Pond!

Via: outis • Environment/Climate • 18 Comments • last year

The last time I went fishing was about seventy years ago. I remember that there were worms...

Fires are the sum of our choices

Via: outis • Environment/Climate • 5 Comments • last year

California's wildfires get more coverage in the US, but other countries have had even worse damage. Chile's fires were horrific.

2025 RAM 1500 Tungsten -- This Luxury Truck Takes Things to a NEW LEVEL!

Via: outis • Environment/Climate • 5 Comments • last year

Headin' for Lowes, pardner.... Gotta get some plywood. I hope they got small sheets....

Live Your Best Life In These 18 Swing-State Cities

Via: outis • Environment/Climate • 1 Comments • last year

We have a CityNerd twofer today. You may have gotten the impression that urbanism in America is all bad. No, not at all. There are lots of nice places. (Just not where I live... ) Here...

Truck Madness

By: outis • Environment/Climate • 20 Comments • last year

I live in the Southwest. Beautiful scenery and the occasional coyote. The city and county are strictly for motor vehicles. Housing is "single-family only", miles from the nearest mall....

After years of stability, Antarctica is losing ice

Via: outis • Environment/Climate • 4 Comments • last year

If you'd like to get caught up... " When scientists tagged a curious seal, he led them to signs of a potential climate disaster " Is both amusing and terrifying.