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California takes on Big Plastic for selling nonrecyclable shopping bags 1 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 539
Southern Ocean's low-salinity Antarctic waters continue absorbing CO₂ despite climate model predictions 1 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 439
World's oceans losing their greenness through global heating, study finds 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 367
Renewed legal battle ramps up over Columbia Basin dams and salmon 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 391
FL Local Govs Attempt To Defend Against Rising Seas & Bad Weather, Receive Threats, Lawsuits From Desantis In Return 4 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 756
Coral Species Known For Resistance To Bleaching Is Doing Exactly That Off Atlantic Coast Of S. Florida 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 490
Shitstain's FEMA Adding New Hurdles To Emergency Aid, Delaying Payouts To Already-Declared Disasters 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 521
Oh, Great: Leaked Draft Shows Brazil To Press COP 30 Delegates To "Vastly Increase" Biofuels Production 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 590
Democratizing global climate modeling 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 340
Founder's Pledge - Branded As "Green" - Is Just A Way For The Rich To Fund Anti-Science Pressure Groups 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 670
September 2025 3rd-Warmest September In Instrumental Record (Behind September 2023 & September 2024) 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 400
As Recently As 30 Years Ago, Greenland Thawed While Antarctica Remained Largely Untouched By Warming. Not Any More . . 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 455
Largest primate in Americas could lose up to 61% of its climatically suitable habitat by 2090 1 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 591
Rain in the Sahara? Researchers predict a wetter future for the desert 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 450
Jumbo drop in estimates of India elephant population 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 457
Study reveals decline in North Atlantic dolphin lifespan and population growth 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 392
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 310
Australia's rainforests are the first to switch from carbon sink to carbon source, study warns 0 Jim__ Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 443
Eloon Predicted 250K CyberDumpster Sales/Year; So Far In 2025, The Total (Per Tesla) Is 16,000 6 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 891
Average Annual Increase In Atmospheric CO2 Biggest On Record In 2024; Same For GHGs Methane, Nitrous Oxide 4 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 707
Back In May, Trump's EPA Canceled $20 Million Grant To Prepare For AK Floods; October Floods Flattened AK Villages 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 582
After Floods In 2019, 2020, 2023 And 2024, English Town Of Tenbury Wells Uninsurable; High Street Slowly Emptying 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 520
UK Government Must Prepare For Heat And Drought Far Beyond Existing Plans For Expected Extremes 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 444
Extreme Heat Hurts Troops; Extreme Weather Hits Bases - But Shitstain's Pentagon No Longer Plans For Warming 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 468
The West's power grid could be stitched together -- if red and blue states buy in 1 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 453
23,000 Homes Had Insulation Installed Under Tory Energy Efficiency Scheme; 98% Of Them Will Need Repair Or Replacement 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 694
1 In 6 Lab-Confirmed Bacterial Infections Antibiotic-Resistant; 40% Of Drugs Lost Potency w. Common Infections 2018-23 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 698
The medieval folklore of Britain's endangered wildlife 'omens 0 sue4e3 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 463
Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks 2 Dulcinea Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 577
8 Million Homes In England At Risk From Flooding; Entire Neighborhoods And Towns May Be Abandoned As Uninsurable 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 614

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Coral die-off marks Earth's first climate 'tipping point', scientists say 4 Submariner Oct 2025 Oct 2025 18 655
Planet's Forest Health In "Dismal" Condition; Agriculture Gets 70X The Subsidies Dedicated To Restore, Protect Forests 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 568
New Zealand accused of 'full-blown climate denial' over cuts to methane reduction targets 0 Eugene Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 387
Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) To Attend COP-30 Climate Conference In Brazil, For Reasons That Remain Utterly Obscure 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 504
UK Diesel Cheating Scandal Snares Ford, Mercedes, Renault, Nissan And Peugeot/Citroen; Damages Pegged @ $8 Billion+ 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 416
Christmas Island Shrew Officially Extinct; 39 Australian Mammal Species Gone Since 1788, More Than In Any Other Nation 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 542
Brown, Stinking Tapwater In Small TX Town One Problem; 90% Cuts In Fed Funding Help Another; Taste Of Freedom Unchanged 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 673
EPA Inspector General's Office Lists 13 Problems In September Report; Former Staff Report "Incapacitating" Staffing Cuts 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 514
European Commission Tells Trump To Get Stuffed On Pressure To Weaken Environmental Rules 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 562
You're kidding, right? Solar and Wind's Hidden Price Tag: Why Cost Isn't the Whole Story 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 747
Solar Photovoltaic Development in West Africa Will Face Million-Ton Waste Challenges, and Off-Grid Systems Will Dominate 2 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 913
A Nuclear Engineer Comments on HBO's Chernobyl Reactor Movie Series, Episode 5. 1 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 694
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 0 334
Elon Musk's Satellites Now Constantly Falling Out of the Sky 3 turbinetree Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 725
Adventures in "Green" Batteries, Fluorinated Ionic Liquids (and other PFAS) in European Waters. 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 494
Al Gore Comes Around on Nuclear Energy. 3 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 1 833
All-European team leads lead-cooled EAGLES reactor project 0 NNadir Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 627
Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas 1 DBoon Oct 2025 Oct 2025 13 657
As Drought Grinds On In NE British Columbia, Fracking Water Consumption In Area Rose 50% In 2024 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 418
Sen. Whitehouse: "Trump is Moving Money from Pockets of Normal Americans to Fossil Fuel Megadonors" 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 589
Study: 61% Of Global Bird Species In Global Survey Declining As IUCN Convenes 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 440
8 Houses Fell Into The Sea Last Week Alone On The Outer Banks; NC Officials Bracing For More, Staging Debris Crews 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 7 523
TOTAL Havoc BREAKS LOOSE as Trump DESTROYS WEATHER FORECASTS - Meidas Touch 0 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 618
Despite Overwhelming Public Opposition, Bessemer AL City Council Approves Zoning For Gigantic Data Center 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 586
Comprehensive Plant Inventories From 1884 To 1931 Were Nearly Tossed; Now Provide Priceless Window On Habitats Over Time 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 530
UK Security Agencies Prepared Major Report On Warming Threats To National Security; Release Suddenly Delayed 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 434
"Forever Chemicals" - PFAS Gas - Routinely Used At Data/AI Centers. No Testing Or Use Data Required 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 11 663
Headline: "Where Are The Climate Republicans?" Answer - They Never Gave A Shit In The First Place 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 612
20 Years On, "Great Green Wall" Of Trees Across Sahara Faltering As Seedlings Die, Money Dries Up 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 597
Nestle Abandons Pretense Of Action, Leaves Global Alliance To Cut Methane From Dairy Industry 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 567

Environment & Energy Continued...

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Illegal gold mining clears 140,000 hectares of Peruvian Amazon 1 hunter Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 479
Trump Just Gutted The Wildest Public Land In America 4 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 21 1504
An inside look at Idaho's $3M fight against invasive quagga mussels 0 Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2025 Oct 2025 2 409
More than 40 Trump administration picks tied directly to oil, gas and coal, analysis shows 1 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 479
Biggest Federal Coal Lease Sale In 10 Years Brings One Bid - For 1/10th Cent Per Ton; Last Lease Sale Brought $1.10 2 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 638
Global Plastics Treaty Talks Collapsed In August After 3 Years Of Meetings; Now, Treaty Chair Resigning 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 511
UK Exports Of Plastic Waste To Developing Nations Nearly Doubled In Just The 1st 6 Months Of 2025 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 440
Insurance Coverage Near-Impossible For Coastal LA Residents As Insurance Companies Invest More In Exxon, BP, Etc. 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 589
Renewables Overtake Coal: Global Power Shift Leaves Trump Behind. - FIVE MINUTE NEWS 1 Rhiannon12866 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 3 442
That's Nice: EPA Does 180, Will Require Coke Plants To Monitor For Benzene, Chromium, Other Toxins After All 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 485
Brilliant - TikTok Video - "If The Tesla Cybertruck Was A Person" 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 5 1804
Brexit Allowed UK To "Take Control" Of North Sea Fishing; 59%Of Cod, Mackerel Pops Fished So Hard They Can't Repopulate 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 12 550
"Someday" Is Here: Colorado River Treaty Divides 15 Million AF Among Basin States; Last Year's Flow Was 8.5 Million AF 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 817
Wildfires Ravage One of Africa's Largest Nature Reserves 0 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 503
Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: 'You can almost hear the chainsaws' 2 douglas9 Oct 2025 Oct 2025 9 648
EPA Will No Longer Collect GHG Emissions Data From Corporations, Utilities; Can Anyone Else Compile Information? 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 4 466
Judge Voids Huge Tax Break Exxon Rammed Through TX School Board; New Plastics Plant Now On Hold 0 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 6 546
Thames Water Removes 100-Ton Fatberg From Sewer; Chisels And High-Pressure Hoses Used In Project 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 10 792
Nearly 500,000 Planned Homes In Phoenix On Hold; State Water Agency Acknowledging Groundwater Reality 3 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 15 797
Study Of 25 Years Of Carbon Offsets Reveals A Legacy Of Failure; Not Even 1 In 5 Projects Did Anything To Cut GHGs 1 hatrack Oct 2025 Oct 2025 8 493
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