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Welcome to Overnight News Digest- Saturday Science. Since 2007 the OND has been a regular community feature on Daily Kos, consisting of science stories from around the world, sometimes coupled with ...
by Rise above the swamp
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on Sat May 18, 2024 at 08:59 PM PDT
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In the clean economy revolution, globally, there are truly many great stories and tremendous advances. Solar power continues its double-digit growth, clean generation is blowing away fossil fuels in new power plants, battery prices continue to fall...
by A Siegel
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on Fri May 10, 2024 at 02:31 PM PDT
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Conversations about overpopulation can quickly become controversial because they beg the question: Who exactly is the cause of the problem and what, if anything, should be done about it? Many population experts worry discussions around overpopulation...
by populationmediacenter
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on Mon Apr 22, 2024 at 10:11 AM PDT
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I’ve been following and compiling the Colorado Secretary of State’s monthly reports of voter registrations since 2016. Following the approval of constitutional amendments in 2018, the state created two Colorado Independent Redistricting Commissions —...
by John in Denver
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on Mon Apr 15, 2024 at 05:00 PM PDT
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 11:32 AM PST
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Climate change is proving very costly. One of those new costs is the need for additional electrical generation capacity during peak load emergencies such as the one in which we now find ourselves. We have gone for well over a century thinking that we...
by Art Smart
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on Mon Jan 15, 2024 at 03:38 AM PST
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"Our goal should be a planet with fewer humans"(WAPO)washingtonpost Worldometer https://www.worldometers.info › ... World Population Clock: 8.1 Billion People (LIVE, 2024) How many people are there in the world? World population has reached 8 billion...
by Angmar
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on Wed Jun 26, 2024 at 04:00 PM PDT
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CO2 leaps. Will COP28 finally get it together or will it just be one more round of Carry On Pumping? In a decade or so, the summer of 2023 will be looked back on as a beautiful, cool, enjoyable time. We will tell each other, "Those were the days." That is likely to be the case whether or not we Earthlings do finally get it together to take the actions...
by Meteor Blades
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on Mon Nov 27, 2023 at 07:56 AM PST
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event, in your town or your city! How? Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. This is the letter for week 34 of a weekly climate strike that went on...
by birches
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on Mon Jul 24, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event, in your town or your city! �How? �Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. �
This is the ...
by birches
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on Tue Jul 25, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event, in your town or your city! �How? �Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. �
This is the ...
by birches
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on Wed Jul 26, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event, in your town or your city! �How? �Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. �
This is the ...
by birches
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on Tue Jul 18, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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This is the letter for week 8�of a weekly climate strike that went on for 4 years in front of SF City Hall, beginning early March 2019. �For more context, see this story . �For an annotated table of ...
by birches
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on Fri Jun 23, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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In innocent eyes, the world they see, Children, the bearers of destiny. Amidst the chaos of a warming Earth, Their voices rise, calling for rebirth. They dream of meadows, pure and green, Of crystal streams, untainted, pristine. Their laughter mingles...
by genec
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on Sat Jun 10, 2023 at 08:38 AM PDT
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Wed May 31, 2023 at 03:17 PM PDT
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These kinds of events below are happening all over the world every day and most of them, now, are webcast and archived, sometimes even with accurate transcripts. Would be good to have a place that helped people access them. This is a more global...
by gmoke
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on Sun Apr 30, 2023 at 07:17 PM PDT
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“Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. He does whatever he does to the web to himself.”― Ted Perry A punch to the gut today from NOAA as the Mauna Loa laboratory on the big island of Hawaii showed that humanity passed a...
by Pakalolo
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on Sat Apr 29, 2023 at 05:16 PM PDT
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The Sierra Club yesterday, working through its endorsement process, had much praise for President BIden’s environmental accomplishments but called upon him “to clamp down on the leasing of public lands to the fossil fuel industry,” specifically...
by boatsie
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on Wed Apr 26, 2023 at 09:29 AM PDT
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Sequestration: the action of sequestering or isolating a substance……preferably for carbon a long time. Caveat 1: IANACS (I am not a climate scientist); I do understand science and the scientific method though Caveat 2: The best ways to lock up carbon...
by MDGluon16
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on Fri Apr 28, 2023 at 01:25 PM PDT
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Wow! Our local ski racer Mikaela Shiffrin has broken the record! We in Eagle County, Colorado claim local pride because we have followed Mikaela her entire career. In fact, for her first Olympics, a local restaurant aired her race live to a crowded and...
by greenchiledem
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on Sat Mar 11, 2023 at 06:28 AM PST
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