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'The Mauno Loa observatory showed the first weekly average CO₂ concentration of 430 ppm in at least 3 million years!' 4 Tonk Apr 22 Apr 23 10 408
In Louisiana, Some GQP Pushing "Carbon Capture", Some Oppose It, Thanks To Pissed-Off Homeowners & Local Governments 0 hatrack Apr 23 Apr 23 1 302
Growing #s Of Texans Experience The Freedom Of Living w/o Property Insurance; Premiums Up 19% 2024, 21% In 2023 3 hatrack Apr 22 Apr 22 9 523
Be the change you want to see in the world. Happy Earth Day! 2 Dennis Donovan Apr 22 Apr 22 8 307
Since It's A Great Way To Gurantee Never-Ending Growth In Energy Demand, Tech-Bros & Saudis Pushing Hard For More AI 0 hatrack Apr 22 Apr 22 7 282
Nearly 60 Years After It Was Discontinued, DDT Found In New Brunswick Trout At 10X Safety Threshold 3 hatrack Apr 22 Apr 22 14 462
Freedom! Shitstain Gives Coal Power Plants Another Two Years Before They Have To Deal With Mercury Pollution 0 hatrack Apr 22 Apr 22 4 246
Something strange is happening to Earth's rotation. Now we know why 17 Judi Lynn Apr 20 Apr 21 92 3104
Three ways Pope Francis influenced the global climate movement 1 Deep State Witch Apr 21 Apr 21 3 205
Emissions From 1 Year Of Tankers Carrying US LNG Shipments Outweighs GHG Gains From All EVs Driven By Americans 4 hatrack Apr 21 Apr 21 7 398
Oh No, Anyway: Energy Secretary's Old Oil Company Warns Of "Storm Clouds" As Profits And Stock Price Collapse 1 hatrack Apr 21 Apr 21 5 407
TX Oil Company And Its VP Found Guilty Of Multiple Charges After Husband & Wife Died From Hydrogen Sulfide At Wellhead 1 hatrack Apr 21 Apr 21 8 431
"Bordering On Incredible" - Australian Conservatives Can't Even Articulate What Their Climate Plan Is 0 hatrack Apr 21 Apr 21 3 308
Climatologist Friederike Otto On Attribution Science, Conspiracy Theories And What We Are Facing 0 hatrack Apr 21 Apr 21 6 252
UK Warns Visitors To National Parks As "Catastrophic" Fire Risk Builds After Weeks Of Drought, Hot Weather 0 hatrack Apr 21 Apr 21 2 272
Gosh, Who Knew?!? Laying Off 1,000s Of Federal Scientists & Engineers Makes It Hard To Find Oil On Federal Land 0 hatrack Apr 21 Apr 21 14 436
Are Whales Smarter Than We Think? Narrated by David Attenborough 4K Nature Documentary 5 Uncle Joe Apr 20 Apr 21 17 608
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 430.19 ppm 2 NNadir Apr 20 Apr 20 7 302
GQP Plan Advances: Sell Public Lands To Pay For More Tax Cuts; Two R Senators Voted Against Doing So. Two. 5 hatrack Apr 15 Apr 20 12 622
China's Coal Generation Dropped 5% YOY In Q1 As Electricity Demand Increased 0 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 20 Apr 20 3 213
Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise 2 Judi Lynn Apr 20 Apr 20 17 561
As Summer Approaches, Federal Cuts Threaten Program to Keep Vulnerable People Cool 1 Judi Lynn Apr 20 Apr 20 9 379
Rising temperatures, carbon could bump up arsenic in rice 0 Judi Lynn Apr 20 Apr 20 6 264
Urban heat islands 'increasing faster' in poorer cities 0 Judi Lynn Apr 20 Apr 20 5 228
New Food Powers Hungry Bees Through Pollination 0 Judi Lynn Apr 20 Apr 20 9 333
Florida's Dolphins Are Dying - Why? 0 Judi Lynn Apr 20 Apr 20 6 385
Icelandic whaling company calls off fin whale hunt this summer 0 OnlinePoker Apr 19 Apr 19 7 317
The potential impacts of mining rare minerals from the ocean floor - PBS NewsHour 2 Rhiannon12866 Apr 19 Apr 19 6 357
Environmental groups readying for retaliation from Trump administration - Face the Nation - CBS News 0 Rhiannon12866 Apr 19 Apr 19 3 325
California commercial salmon season is shut down again 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 18 Apr 18 12 331

Environment & Energy Continued...

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A Russian bucket brigade helps toads and frogs cross the road to get to a spawning site 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 17 Apr 17 2 243
Historical Fatal and Non-fatal Nuclear Fission Criticality Accidents; Preventing Them in Aqueous Solutions of Plutonium. 0 NNadir Apr 17 Apr 17 1 271
Proposed rule change on endangered species triggers alarm for environmentalists 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 17 Apr 17 8 285
As Shitstain Slashes NOAA And NWS Budget & Staff, Colorado State Predicts 9 Named Hurricanes, Four Of Them Major Storms 1 hatrack Apr 17 Apr 17 12 408
EPA"s New Priorities Clear; Lots Of Coal-Fired Electricity To Power AI, Plus "Carbon Capture", Despite Utility Warnings 0 hatrack Apr 17 Apr 17 3 331
Oz Opposition Leader Tries To "I'm Not A Scientist" On Warming Question, Then Flailingly Reverses Course 0 hatrack Apr 17 Apr 17 5 362
Oh The Humanity! BP Chair Likely To Be Kicked Out By Angry Shareholders At This Year's Annual Meeting 0 hatrack Apr 17 Apr 17 3 387
The Lancet: As Temperatures And CO2 Levels Rise In Tandem, Arsenic Content In World's Rice Supply Will Also Increase 0 hatrack Apr 17 Apr 17 4 316
In New South Wales Alone, More Than 700,000 Properties At Risk Of Becoming Uninsurable As Climate Collapse Continues 0 hatrack Apr 17 Apr 17 2 328
Salmon Are Being Exposed to Our Anti-Anxiety Medication, and It's Making Them Take More Risks, Study Suggests 1 Judi Lynn Apr 16 Apr 17 11 304
Tree Rings Bear Witness to Illegal Gold Mining Operations in the Amazon, New Study Finds 0 Judi Lynn Apr 16 Apr 16 2 271
China Will Skip UK Energy Summit; US Will Send MAGA Clown; Plenty Of Oil Company Representation, Though 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 3 280
UK: South Wales Fire & Rescue Had 34 Wildfire Calls 1/1 - 4/10/24; During The Same Dates In 2025, It Had 445 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 4 214
Judge rules against Trump admin after it couldn't find evidence of fraud in clean energy program 0 Eugene Apr 16 Apr 16 5 363
Why the Forest Service is logging after Hurricane Helene -- and why some say it's a mistake 0 littlemissmartypants Apr 16 Apr 16 6 306
New Right Whale Slow Zone: East of Boston, MA 0 Submariner Apr 16 Apr 16 7 273
Records Tumbling Across South Australia As Drought Intensifies; Even Native Trees Dying With Rainfall Down 80% From Avg 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 4 378
Right-Wing Australian MP: The Way Forward Is To Allow Blackouts In Major Cities (Along With Plenty Of Climate Lies) 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 3 373
Great Barrier Reef Has Undergone Its 6th Mass Bleaching In Nine Years; 2024-25 Summers Were 2nd Back-To-Back Bleachings 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 4 280
TX Takes Bold Action - Bill Would Require Oil Companies To NOTIFY Landowners Before Burying Toxic Waste On Their Land 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 5 1126
Meeting Of Top EPA Science Advisory Board Canceled Without Notice, Explanation Or Plans For Rescheduling 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 3 290
Remaining Banks In Net-Zero Alliance Vote Overwhelmingly For Bold New Climate Approach: "Fuck It, Something Something" 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 4 289
Copernicus: Europe's Warming Rate Twice The Global Average; At Least 335 Dead,$20 Billion In Damages In 2024 Alone 0 hatrack Apr 16 Apr 16 2 212
Trump exempts nearly 70 coal plants from Biden-era rule on mercury and other toxic air pollution 0 douglas9 Apr 16 Apr 16 4 241
Slow TV presents: The great moose migration 0 littlemissmartypants Apr 16 Apr 16 9 438
2025 Global Temperature - James Hansen and Pushker Kharecha - 15 April 2025 1 OKIsItJustMe Apr 15 Apr 15 4 267
We have had strong winds most of the winter and I am curious of whether this relates to climate change 6 question everything Apr 15 Apr 15 3 394
Global Warming Has Tripled The Length Of Marine Heatwaves; Along With Temp Spikes Of 5C, Storms Also More Destructive 2 hatrack Apr 15 Apr 15 11 341
March 2025 Atmospheric CO2 Content 428.15 ppm; March 2024 425.38 ppm; March 2023 420.99 ppm 1 hatrack Apr 15 Apr 15 7 278
New Weekly CO2 Concentration Record Set at the Mauna Loa Observatory, 429.24 ppm 7 NNadir Apr 13 Apr 15 4 441

Environment & Energy Continued...

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IA Has 2nd-Highest Cancer Rate Among States; Bill To Further Protect Pesticide Companies Fails In Legislature 1 hatrack Apr 15 Apr 15 7 436
Agriculture Department cancels $3B grant program for climate-friendly crops 0 Eugene Apr 14 Apr 14 5 266
Paris Began To Restrict Cars And Air Pollutants Fell By Half; 500 More Streets To Go Car-Free 1 hatrack Apr 14 Apr 14 11 382
Why The Dire Wolf "Resurrection" Hype Perfectly Reflects The Blind-Alley Bullshit The PTB Keep Pushing 2 hatrack Apr 14 Apr 14 8 441
The Biggest Federal Land Heist in the History of the West? 2 douglas9 Apr 14 Apr 14 15 588
"Back To Basics! Said BP, As It Abandoned Even Token Diversification; Then The Price Of Oil Collapsed 0 hatrack Apr 14 Apr 14 9 502
TX Landowners Offer To "Save" Laredo W. Water Pipeline Project: Is It Drinkable? How Much $$? Nobody Knows 0 hatrack Apr 14 Apr 14 3 403
REI says it was a 'mistake' to endorse Trump interior secretary by Nate Sanford 10 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 13 Apr 14 24 1158
The challenge of mining Greenland's natural resources - 60 Minutes Overtime 0 Rhiannon12866 Apr 14 Apr 14 4 302
Material Efficiency and Circularity Goals to Achieve a Carbon-Neutral Society by 2050 0 NNadir Apr 13 Apr 13 2 262
A surprising lesson from Antarctica: Life flourishes even under 500 feet of ice 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 13 Apr 13 4 214
New gear could keep California crab fishermen on the water longer, and whales safe 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Apr 13 Apr 13 8 255
DOJ ends environmental justice agreement in Alabama county citing Trump 0 Eugene Apr 13 Apr 13 2 254
The Effect of Fugitive Hydrogen Emissions on Extreme Global Heating. 6 NNadir Apr 13 Apr 13 1 561
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. 4 mahatmakanejeeves Apr 13 Apr 13 19 682
+/- 100 MPH Winds Roar Across North China; Beijing Paralyzed; People Weighing Less Than 50kg Warned To Stay Inside 4 hatrack Apr 12 Apr 12 15 947
Fluorine Flows in China. 0 NNadir Apr 12 Apr 12 1 433
Global Ad Giant WPP Shutters "Sustinability" Agency: Its 79 Clients Included Saudi Aramco, BP, Exxon, Shell, Total 0 hatrack Apr 12 Apr 12 5 399
The World's First De-Extinction? George Church on Bringing Back the Dire Wolf - Amanpour and Company PBS 2 Rhiannon12866 Apr 12 Apr 12 3 328
Ethiopian farmers ditch livestock for drought-resistant crops as climate changes - PBS NewsHour 0 Rhiannon12866 Apr 12 Apr 12 4 271
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